Ron Natalie wrote:
Anonymous coward #673 wrote:

The other day I was under the hood with a safety pilot, but I was not
IFR current. I requested a "practice approach in VFR conditions" and
was cleared for an actual approach. I advised ATC that I just wanted
a practice approach and they said, "We have to put you in the system
for [some cockamamie reason that I can no longer recall -- spacing or
something like that].


"Putting you in the computer" doesn't make you IFR. It just lets them
do things like get you a squawk code and the like so it's easier to
track you. Normally they don't bother telling you that they are doing
this.

But, since the controller told him that, he may have entered him into
the computer as an IFR operation.

If, in fact, that were the case, it would go no where as an enforcement
case.