Holding Procedure Log

The rule says 'holding procedures and tasks' without a number, and the FAA has not published a strict count — one properly flown and logged hold inside the window is the commonly accepted minimum reading. Practically, instructors recommend at least one hold per sim or practice session, varying the entry, because a single direct entry every six months maintains legality but not the skill the rule exists to protect.

Holds flown with reference to GPS/RNAV guidance count — modern RNAV approaches frequently end in a hold-in-lieu of procedure turn, and flying that HILPT in the sim or under the hood satisfies the task. The reference field here records VOR, GPS, localizer or DME holds separately, which is useful because raw-VOR holding with manual timing remains the perishable skill examiners probe.

The two numbers you'll want next time: the wind correction angle that finally made the inbound track and the outbound timing that produced a one-minute inbound leg. Holding technique is wind memory — recording '3× drift outbound, 55 sec' for a fix you hold at regularly turns every future hold there into a first-circuit success.

No account and no connection are needed once the page has loaded — all records are kept in local storage on your device and all calculations run in your browser. The trade-off is that data does not sync between devices, so export the CSV file when you want to move or archive your records.

A plain CSV with one row per entry and labelled column headers — the most portable format there is. Spreadsheets open it directly, every major electronic logbook can map it on import, and a printed copy is perfectly legible to a human reviewer. Nothing proprietary means your holding record is never trapped here.