On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 07:07:00 -0700, wrote:

"Racetrack" is an obsolete term left over from the lighted-aiway days. The
holding rules are pretty well spelled out. Racetrack patterns used to have 2
minute legs in the 1940s and 50s.

Today it is synonymous with a holding pattern type procedure turn, and can
be executed (with legs restricted to not more than the PT distance), when
the PT depiction does not require a specific type of course reversal to be
flown as charted.


Ron (EPM) (N5843Q, Mooney M20E) (CP, ASEL, ASES, IA)