Holding Pattern; defined as the flight path maintained by an aircraft awaiting permission to land. When an aircraft has reached it’s destination, but is delayed from being able to land due to other traffic on a tarmac or inability to land, the aircraft follows a set racetrack flight type pattern in the air, a loop that keeps the target in sight, then circles around until it’s allowed to land. In effect, or applicable to our daily lives, it’s a state or period of no progress o