Convert Vector. to Array?

Unfortunately in Actionscript, it seems like support for the Vector class isn't fully there yet. There are some scenarios where I need to convert a Vector into an array (creating an ArrayCollection for example). I thought this would do the trick:

var myVector:Vector.<MyType> = new Vector.<MyType>();

var newArray:Array = new Array(myVector);

Apparently this just creates an array where the first index of the array contains the full Vector object. Is this my only option:

var newArray:Array = new Array(myVector);

for each(var item:MyType in myVector)
{
    newArray.push(item); 
}

I feel like that clutters up the code a lot and I need to do this in a lot of places. The Vector class doesn't implement any kind of interface, so as far as I can tell I can't create a generic function to convert to an array. Is there any way to do this without adding this mess every time I want to convert a Vector to an array?