Andrew Sarangan wrote in
. 158:

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.

It won't be a perfect racetrack, true, but I said "some semblance of a
racetrack", as the original poster was talking about one that didn't
resemble a racetrack at all. I don't try for perfect standard rate turns,
I try for keeping a general distance from the inbound course, usually using
less than standard rate on the turn into the wind. If the turns are
somewhat less or more than standard, I don't care. With GPS, this is all
easy enough. If you're doing NDB holding, then you have no idea what shape
your pattern is, and at least I don't care. Blindly applying all rules of
thumb all the time isn't something I advocate.

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Regards,

Stan