The US system of joining the downwind leg at 45 degrees has much to commend it.
Particularly if, in non- towered fields everyone is self - announcing on Unicom.
But of course the Brits could only come up with safetycom which lacks many of the brilliant features of Unicom and is half-baked enough to have many peeps refuse to use it.
Overhead joins give me the willies especially when people announce that they're overhead when they patently aren't.
Cusco.