EMB ERJ 170/175 ER/LR
Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Multiengine
Workload; Situational Awareness
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural FAR
Flight Crew Became Reoriented
Human Factors
[Enroute to] IAH; we were given new routing to MULLT-LINKK1. While enroute; the airport had a 25 kt. gain over the runway. All arrivals went into holding. We were given direct to MULLT; hold as published; leg length our discretion. I opted to do 20 nm legs for passenger comfort since our EFC was about 30 minutes away. During holding I was notified from Dispatch that we were approximately 60 nm. offshore. I immediately changed the holding pattern back to 10 miles hoping that would keep us within 50 miles. Before I could query ATC; they gave us vectors to ZZZ-IAH. ATC never said anything about us being more than 50 miles offshore. The other factor is our iPads do not have moving maps enabled in JeppFD. If we had that; I would have thought to watch it; and put a 50 mile ring on the moving map. I called my Dispatcher after landing in IAH; and she told me that we had other flights going over 50 miles offshore due to Houston Center routing. We were not the only flight. Task saturation was also a factor. I recommend Company enable the moving map capability in JeppFD-Pro; it would give us much more situational awareness.
E175 Captain reported that workload and iPad limitations resulted in the aircraft exceeding 50 miles from the coast during a hold.