Racetrack approach procedures
I've been looking at various approach plates in the Jepp manual I was given, but still can't work out something about a racetrack procedure (the approach procedure, not as in a hold).
If you compare a tear-drop approach and a racetrack approach, both require you to fly over a locator of some sort, and then fly outbound on a heading for a set distance / time, before turning inbound.
What I can't see is, in the racetrack procedure, you can't simply overfly the beacon, and then turn outbound, as it wouldn't create the "racetrack" shape, and would form the basic shape of a tear drop approach.
I can see how if you were approaching the locator from due east, and then overflew the beacon, and turned outbound onto a heading of 090 it would form nicely, but otherwise, how does it work?
Thanks in advance,
tKF