Hi all
I wrote a small LUA script to fly a hold starting at any chosen point. As you can see in the picture, it already works quite well. I haven’t compensated for wind drift yet, therefore there still may be a shift. In my script, I specify the heading of the leg as well as its duration in seconds. I set the bank angle to 25 degrees. The speed is manually set to 215 knots, and I define whether the turn should be to the right or to the left. In principle I allow any reasonable altitude and of course altitude changes.
The picture also shows a defined hold nearby, which seems to have a different size. Less bank angle ? Higher velocity ?
So I would like to ask, what instructions does ATC issue when they clear an aircraft to hold ?
And, by the way, does someone know how to write with LUA directly into the FMC scratchpad without "typing" every character via the keyboard.
Thanks a lot