wrote:
Stick around long enough and you will find many things like this -
crap that doesn't amount to a hill of beans to ATC but anal-retentive
instructors and examiners hold sacred. Other examples are
parallel-teardrop-direct entries and racetrack patterns with one
minute inbound legs. There are many more. They are passed from
generation to generation, no matter how much things change.


Do you fly jets?