Hold on radial at a certain DME

Is there a more direct way to add an unpublished hold on a VOR radial at a certain DME? Currently I’ve only figured out a workaround by first having to make a custom waypoint, and then inserting that waypoint in the flight plan followed by then adding the hold at the newly defined waypoint. When in IMC, getting such a hold instruction from ATC is not uncommon, but this workaround requires way too many steps to accomplish. any suggestions are greatly appreciated!

While I appreciate the effort to respond, you repeated the exact workaround I pointed out in my original post. My concern is that this takes an awful lot of button pushes which takes the attention away from other matters while flying IMC. I was wondering if there is an EASIER method to input a hold on a radial at a certain DME, without having to go make a custom waypoint. Why can't we just input something like this: OTT/180/15 and have that create a fix on the 180 radial of the Nottingham VOR at 15 miles out?

I don't believe there is a better way of doing this.

BTW - I did find what appears to be an anomaly with creating custom waypoints using DME-only stations in the IFD Trainer. I found that if I tried to create either a Radial/Distance or Radial/Radial custom waypoint using a DME-only station (such as RFD or CGI), the waypoint was always created directly north of the DME-only station regardless of the radial I defined for the custom waypoint. This behavior did not occur when I built custom waypoints using VOR, airport, or other types of named waypoints in my limited sampling.

Edited by dmtidler - 03 Feb 2022 at 8:48pm