Originally Posted by
avi8tor4life
Ok just to begin, this happened in a sim not the real airplane.
Here's the question.
If a holding pattern course reversal is depicted on the chart is it kosher to use that holding pattern to lose altitude when cleared for the approach but are way above the glideslope at the marker? The holding pattern was the only course reversal and it was at the outer marker. I was holding at 3,000 feet and was just inbound in the hold when cleared for the approach. The glideslope crossing altitude was 1900 feet and after trying to make it to that altitude I crossed the marker at 2200 feet nowhere near the glideslope. So I asked for another turn around the hold to lose altitude and was told that I was trying to have atc fly the airplane for me. So I went around the hold again (again depicted by a dark line on the plate) lost the altitude and got on the glideslope and finished the approach. Kosher?
If they send you to the IAF and clear you for the apch. then you have to make the reversal and continue inbound. If you need more turns in holding to descend then you would have to request it from ATC. What you did is correct. You don't want to be using unusually high rates of descent close to the ground, although it seems like you should have been able to lose the altitude in this particular situation.