"Kobra" wrote in message
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Steve, I think you are correct. There was no IAF on the plate, but I did
have an assigned heading of 180 from a while back. Once the second
controller cleared me for the approach (as unorthodox as his verbology
was) I probably should have just stayed on a 180 heading until I
intercepted the approach course and then began my descent for glide slope
intercept. It was the unusual way in which I was handled that threw me
off.


That would not be a proper clearance. You should have been issued an
altitude to maintain until established on the published approach as well as
a position.