Your turn coordinator is a relic of another era. Forget what your CFI said about standard-rate turns and fly like the pros. When I started my flying career in college via the Air Force ROTC program, rate of turn for pilots was the "in" thing and occupied almost every discussion on IFR maneuvering. I was studying math and physics at the same time and I didn't catch the intent of using rate to determine a limiting geometrical radius. A course overshoot by distance is what gets you into trouble, not how long it takes you to make that overshoot.
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