"Andrew Sarangan" wrote:
Although I have never been assigned an NDB hold in the U.S, I have been
assigned NDB routes and holds in Canada. Just a couple of months ago, I
was instructed to hold at the Muskoka NDB. A few months earlier, I was
given "expect NDB approach... into Buttonville airport". This airport
is one of the largest GA fields in Toronto and has a perfectly good LOC
approach, but folks up there don't seem to shy away from NDBs.

Well, then I would fall back (yet again) to what I said earlier in this
thread:

But, the real way to do NBD holds is to tear that piece of crap ADF out of
the panel and train in a GPS-equipped airplane. If your school doesn't
have GPS in their trainers, find another school.

Any flight school (at least in the US) which is not doing instrument
training in GPS equipped airplanes today is just ripping off their students.

GPS is no longer the way of the future, it's the way of today. I don't
think you can buy a new IFR airplane today which doesn't come with GPS as
standard factory equipment. This is everyday, routine gear for the
majority of the GA fleet. Not training new instrument pilots to use GPS is
like not training new primary students to use a nosewheel.

The way to do an NDB hold today is to punch the NDB name into your GPS and
hold at it just like you would at any other fix. If I was going into
Buttonville, and there wasn't a GPS overlay for the NDB, I would tell the
controller, "unable NDB approach, request LOC".