I'm trying to think when you'd use it in the civilian world. The only times I can recall going fix to fix on the same nav aid not just tracking a radial were DME arcs where you wouldn't want to go direct.

Going X-C to YIP, I don't know how many times we fill up with gas, head 040 for 5 hours, dial up the FWA VOR to see where we were and take a cut into the wind for the last hour. We always got there.