Originally Posted by Mentaleena
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Because I genuinely thought that once ATC say "vectors" it means just that!
I've been flying for 16 years commercially and this has only just come up. In other words whenever I was told "vectors" in the past I have never had to do anything else but follow ATC from there on.
In all the other cases you have been told 'vectors' were you already on a geading from a previous sector, did the transmition that included "Vectors for an .... approach runway XY" include a heading to fly, or immediately followed by an instruction to fly a heading.
As stated previously you cannot be under vectors until one has been issued. During my training i used the phrase "continue towards XYZ, vectors ILS approach runway XY". In no circumstance did a pilot fly past a hold or query that he was to take up the hold. No heading was issued so the aircraft was not subject to Radar Vectors.