Hi Tim,

Encouraged by your post, I have successfully programmed and flown a HOLD. Needed to add a few steps to your procedure to get it to work for me and had to read up a bit in the manual. But that builds confidence in your help and the manual.

I tend to create simple stuff to test so as not to waste too much time in a sophisticated flight to test a new feature.

I departed from your suggestion a bit just to see what would happen, specifically to NOT use the SPD button in the hold. The leg where the HOLD was inserted had a descent and a slower speed (240). So in the HOLD I experienced both a slow down and an altitude descent. The HOLD was long enough for the alt and speed to achieve the leg goals.

While programming the HOLD it was interesting to watch the HOLD diagram change size with different values of HOLD time to see the distance extent of the loop expand and contract.

One thing I wish the FMC would do would be a reset, to be able to start over if some data was messed up. Now I'm resetting the flight which requires having to redo the intertial stuff. Also I wish there was and undo. Do you know of a trick to reset the FMC without having to reset the flight?

I'll not get even close to your desire to produce such detailed flights. Sorry to admit the shallower depths of my interest. But meantime the experience is fun and I will slowly try new FMC features.

Jim