I was only enlightened recently that the outbound portion of the tear drop is considered by PANS OPS to be a reversal procedure and limited to IAS 140kts by Cat B aircraft.
So all AirNZ Link turboprops which are considered Cat B may soon be recategorised as Cat C, as flying for 7-8Nm at 140kts outbound is gonna be a bunch of arse (except AirNSN at the mo who'll probably love that development)
Base Turn
4.13.4 A base turn consists of a specified outbound track and timing from a
facility, followed by a turn to intercept the inbound track.
Check out Figure ENR 1.5-6 diagram c for depiction of the tear drop / base turn.
Turns out my previous understanding of the outbound and base turn were considered the "initial approach" segment until either established on the final approach path or cross the FAF (if depicted) to then be on Final Approach is
now not up to speed (pun)
Get that one around your heads
S2K