I am sure this was to develop the habit of timing my approaches. It has been said that I can use work on my procedure instead of flying by feel all the time.
Thanks for the input guys. I figured the LOM was the correct answer since that is generally the FAF on an ILS.
Merit I did say no DME or GPS. Since most of the flying I do is slant uniform. DME would make things much easier and our Twin has DME but the primary instrument training aircraft does not. That is temporary but nevertheless a reality right now.