greatorex - thanks for your kind words, but I can certainly think of many who've advanced the cause of GA rather more than I have - Polly Vacher for one!
Vectors to a straight-in visual approach whilst keeping the odd eye on your ILS display (not a bad idea to check that it actually works before you need it in anger!) is one thing; untrained attempts at a 'real' ILS (even in VMC) quite another.
Now, as to whether flying a properly qualified pilot flying an ILS approach to land in VMC is 'carrying out instrument approach
practice' as regulated under Rule 7, I wouldn't wish to comment upon. What exactly constitutes 'practice'....
