Not too worried about wandering outside the safe zone, you really have to b*gger things up to do that in a PA-28. However,
The only perceivable problem would be when you come around to establish on the inbound leg and conceivably will fly through the inbound track.
That's what tends to happen - and this scenario is what happens routing direct to the SAM hold. I can fudge it by flying over the beacon, turning 180 degrees, waiting 'a bit', then turning outbound. Just wondered if there was a rule of thumb for what 'a bit' is, or if there's another way. Flying on instruments I quite like to know what i'm doing and why i'm doing it - and a decent hold entry would be nice for the IMC test too...
