"Roy N5804F" wrote in message
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I am really interested to hear how many of us have actually been asked to
fly a Holding pattern by ATC in the recent past ?


Excluding HIL-type course reversals in approaches, I have had to hold at
least twice in IMC during the last year or so, always due to more than one
aircraft trying to get into and out of the same untowered fields. And I
hear it over the radio fairly frequently, for one to hold as another
completes the approach.