"PA34 F-GFTF" wrote in message
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"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message
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"PA34 F-GFTF" wrote in message
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How strange : in France, you log instrument time as long as you're
flying
IFR (that is, under an IFR flight plan), and whatever the meteo
conditions.
I thought it was ICAO rules, I'm supprised that it's different in US.

That's because some pilots that have a lot of _instrument time, have
very
little real time in _instrument CONDITIONS_. You do know that there is a
really big difference between the two.

Correct. Here (in France), younger instrument-rated pilots may have scores
of Instrument hours, with very few in IMC.

Quite...even some more experienced pilots.

Out in the American West, "where skies are not clouldy all day", you can
have some like me with 660 or so hours IFR, but only about 45 in IMC.

Still, I expected you would fill your logbook with a clear-cut legal rule
(flying under IFR FPL), and not with a somewhat subjective estimation of
being IMC or not.

We log both Instrument Time and Actual IMC time. The latter is a subset of
the former.