Holding Pattern Trainer App Reviews

Well designed and perfect for "drills" to get comfortable with procedures before actually flying. Well designed options before and after each scenario.

As a CFI and CFII I use this app with my students all the time to help them learn.

Tutorial was outstanding. Practice invaluable. Recommend for students and cfii candidate.

This is the first review I have written for an app, but I felt it was warranted. As part of my IFR training, holds werent coming easily - mostly understanding of relative position to a hold. Not a problem any more. This app is incredible as a training tool and explains, shares tips, and allows for practice, practice and practice. I dont understand why anyone would need one of the other "hold calculator" apps if youve learned and practiced using this app. Well done to the designers.

It really helped me understand entering into holding, which is why it gets three stars. I am having significant trouble visualizing the holding pattern and Im not getting a lot of help understanding it with this app... It could just be me though.

This is a very good app for training purposes. For operational use the fonts need to be larger.

Nice, simple app to practice visualizing holds. Saved a few bucks in the sim for sure

This program is great! It has been a big help in my IFR training, I would highly recommend.

First purchased app, on my ipad. Definetly worth it so much, good explaination and visualization its a simple but really useful for students and senior pilots. Please, keep update it with more variety question, i do will keep it save this app, forever :-D

this app is really great for training. For new and for experienced pilots, definitely great. A must have

As an instrument student this really helped nail down my holds and gave me the confidence when my instructor pulled impromptu hold instructions while in-flight.

Definitely an app for anyone working on their instrument rating or who needs to brush up on some instrument proficiency. Holds are one of the more difficult maneuvers to be able to visualize, and this app has made a big difference for me in developing the ability to do so. Thanks!

After an hour youll have a good framework to deal with holding. Although ATC rarely, if ever, gives bearing holding instructions (they usually give hold as published or hold inbound on some radial). Despite the oddness, the program just makes you think a bit harder. Thats ok. When you are in the air doing it for real, youll nail it.

The holding calculator and practice answers are correct, but the holding pattern visualizer and tutorial are backwards. The parallel 110 degree sector should be to the right for right hand turns, and to the left for left hand turns. The teardrop sector is always 70 degrees.

Im a flight instructor and can confirm that the app works correctly. The visualizer is mirrored to the map plan view since your point a view when looking at the DG is different then your point of view when looking at a top down map view. The tutorial in the app explains this. You can verify this by comparing the results from the plan view and from the visualize mode are see that they are in fact the same.

Helped me a lot with my IFR class

This is a great way to refresh your holding patterns. I wish the app was more than just that though.

I recommend this app to all instrument students!

This app really helped me to visualize holding entries, something I was really struggling with. Using the DG to determine the entry is very logical for me, as that is the instrument used to enter the hold. Having the ability to practice holds outside of the cockpit is invaluable. My only suggestion would be to have a setting that turns bearing type holds on and off. While they are a good mental exercise, they are not something I need to practice.

Very helpful app. Highly recommended.