If you're like most instrument pilots, you spent a lot of trainingtime flying full approaches, muddling through procedure turnswhile you tried to figure out just exactly where the final approachcourse really was. Unfortunately, all that training wasn't goodpractice for the real world; the full approach just isn't theusual way of doin' business.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/flight-safety/vectors-to-final