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Old January 10th, 2008, 19:01   #5
Chris_Ford
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Default Re: GPS Holding Entries

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Originally Posted by aloft View Post
Let's think about that for a second. Suppose you're gonna do a teardrop entry, and after crossing the holding waypoint, you turn the usual 30 degrees off of the reciprocal of the inbound leg. If you flew 5 miles on that heading, do you think you'd still be in protected airspace?
You'd be 2.5 miles off the track of the inbound leg. I'm fairly certain that's still within protected airspace. And you could be holding at 15,000 feet anyway.
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