Leaving the hold..
When ATC issues instructions to leave a holding pattern in the form of, for example, "continue the right turn heading 130" why do some pilots head back to the holding facility before taking up the heading? It seems to be a procedure which many crews have adopted in the last few years and I wonder if that's what they're trained to do? If so, why? If I want you to set course from the facility I would use the phrase "return to XXX and leave heading 130", etc. Sometimes we want you to turn directly on to a heading to save time and by returning to the facility you could delay your place in the sequence.