Bob Moore wrote in
. 8:

Andrew Sarangan wrote

If you have a crosswind, you can't maintain a racetrack shape if you
want to do standard rate turns. That is why we double the wind
correction on the outbound. The goal is to make standard rate turns
on both ends of the holding pattern, not to keep the outbound
parallel to the inbound.

Gee...thanks for the explanation Andrew, and to think that for all of
these years, for a one minute pattern, I've been teaching that one
should *triple* the drift on the outbound leg. We taught it that way
at PanAm long before the FAA changed the AIM as follows.

From AIM 5-3-7

(c) Compensate for wind effect primarily by drift correction on the
inbound and outbound legs. When outbound, triple the inbound drift
correction to avoid major turning adjustments; e.g., if correcting
left by 8 degrees when inbound, correct right by 24 degrees when
outbound.



Bob Moore


OK, now I'm confused. If you triple the correction, wouldn't the inbound
turn be less than standard rate? What am I missing here?