Aterpster - Your certainly welcome to rant and rave insensibly, on and on..
Or you can actually read the DP you so nicely outlined, then imagine that you were in a real plane departing 26 on the DP, for a Northbound flight plan...and when you made the turns, and got direct to POM, which is typical for an IFR depature, then you would quickly find yourself at 10k right over POM talking to center....
And like I said, in how many posts now? There you are, over POM at 10k needing to get down quick, because the engine died, because the passenger is having a heart attack..
You request an immediate approach, get a heading and alt and start down...and now one will really care how you do the procedure turn, as long as your in the protected airspace of the hold, which by the way is in a radar environment, which is how they will know if you are in the protected airspace or flying off to China when you botch the entry...
Now what you need to do, is go call POC tower and ask them if they are a 'VFR tower' or IFR tower....
When the laughing stops, you ask them what the typical clearance is for a Northbound departure is...when you see the 'direct POM' is on the clearance...then you can ask them what would happen if you needed to get back down over POM at 10k...and when they stop laughing at the idea of them caring how you do the procedure turn, you could then ask them if there is a big alien forcefield over Los Angeles that precludes flying over POM VOR at 10,000 feet. This should give the guys at POC tower a nice break from the monotony of watching planes go up and down all day.
