Mike the Strike wrote:
As far as I'm aware, the right turn off tow is a North American
practice. Everywhere else turns left.

It's the only way to get a tailwind in the perpetual high pressure areas we
fly. Everyone else in the world appears to fly in depressions and have to
turn left to get the tailwind. Terribly sad!

Don't ask me why. Perhaps the same reason Americans drive on the
wrong side of the road?

Tsk:
"...about 34% of the world's people live in left-hand traffic countries and
66% in right-hand traffic countries. About 28% of the world's total road
distance carries traffic on the left, and 72% on the right."

Quoted from this link (even has a color coded map to make it clear how out
of step those left-lane drivers really are ;-)):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driving..._left_or_right