Holding Pattern Entry for DGCA Exams: Direct, Offset, Parallel
Learn holding pattern entry for the DGCA exam: how to pick a direct, offset or parallel entry from your heading, with the 70° rule and worked examples.

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Master General Navigation, Radio Aids, Flight Instruments, Aircraft Performance, Mass & Balance, and ICAO Flight Planning. Includes 2,000+ solved questions and quizzes.

Global and Local (Indian) weather coverage. Master clouds, thunderstorms, turbulence, fronts, occlusions, pressure systems, and advanced altimetry.

Comprehensive training on Visual Aids, Rules of the Air, Air Traffic Services, SOPs, FDTL, Human Factors, and PANS-OPS.

Detailed study of Principles of Flight (Lift, Drag, High Lift Devices), Hydraulics, Jet & Piston Engines, Cabin Pressurization, Aircraft Electrics, and Flight Controls.
Master General Navigation, Radio Aids, Flight Instruments, Aircraft Performance, Mass & Balance, and ICAO Flight Planning. Includes 2,000+ solved questions and quizzes.

Global and Local (Indian) weather coverage. Master clouds, thunderstorms, turbulence, fronts, occlusions, pressure systems, and advanced altimetry.

Comprehensive training on Visual Aids, Rules of the Air, Air Traffic Services, SOPs, FDTL, Human Factors, and PANS-OPS.

Detailed study of Principles of Flight (Lift, Drag, High Lift Devices), Hydraulics, Jet & Piston Engines, Cabin Pressurization, Aircraft Electrics, and Flight Controls.

The calculations the DGCA papers test, made visual. Try them now: no sign-up needed.
A free E6B-style flight computer: wind, altitude, airspeed, fuel and conversions in one place.
Navigation and flight planning questions need the same calculations again and again: time, speed and distance, fuel, wind, pressure and density altitude, true airspeed and Mach. This electronic flight computer does them all, and shows how each answer is worked out so you can do it in the exam.
Open toolHeading, drift and groundspeed from your TAS, track and wind.
Every navigation leg starts with the wind triangle. It is the most-tested calculation in the DGCA Navigation paper and the one you will work on every flight plan.
Open toolPaste any METAR and read it in plain English.
Reading a METAR quickly and correctly is examined in the Meteorology paper, and it is the first thing a pilot checks before every flight.
Open toolFind your Critical Point and Point of No Return.
Where is it quicker to continue than to turn back, and where can you no longer return at all? A classic DGCA Navigation question and the basis of long-range fuel decisions.
Open tool7 tools, including Crosswind Calculator, Hold Entry Visualizer and Weight & Balance.
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