Originally Posted by
itry2fly
thanks for your response however not quite what I was looking for. let me try to explain, let's say we are flying from ord to lax, lax has bad weather and we have to hold for 1 hour burning 3000lbs an hour, min fuel is 2700lbs, we choose an alternate of San Diego. how would you calculate at what point you would leave the holding pattern? would it be your min fuel + how much it takes to fly from the holding fix to alt.
+1 with above. This should have been solved with preflight planning, and you shouldn't be picking your alternate when you need one. Min fuel on deck+required reserve+fuel required to get to your alternate and shoot an approach = bingo. Not to sound like a jerk but it's kind of common sense. You don't continue to hold and paint yourself into a corner. You should always know what your "out" is.