"Peter R." wrote in message
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Jon Kraus wrote:

Took my IFR checkride today and busted... I screwed up the holding
pattern big time and that was that..

BTW, to answer your hold question: FWIW, after flying about 350 hours
IFR (most of those hours were not IMC, mind you) in a spam can in the
busy Northeast US, I have yet to have a hold assigned. Perhaps it was
the fact that I flew most of those hours in a C172 where ground speed
was often measured with two digits, not three. ;-)

As I said recently, fly approaches into a popular untowered airport enough
times, and you'll get held while the controller tries to confirm the guy
before you really landed. For extra credit, do that in IMC. Don't mentally
block the unexpected hold instruction and keep motoring on, or the
controller will have to patiently deliver you back to the fix. No, never
happened to me, not even in training, no siree.

Jon, you're almost there. Hang in.

-- David Brooks