Originally Posted by
YPJT
Absolutely 100%.
Also, if you're flying a segment of an approach in VMC, just load the approach in the GPS, and fly it as if it's only track guidance. (Going direct to the point - ie: 10 NM fix - you want to start from.
Do not do that in IFR!)
That last bolded bit isn't necessarily for you, but for any impressionable youth that might come across this.