Tor
The original question related to an F/O, therefore the aircraft is probably an airliner that almost never flies VFR anyway. I assume you have never tried to fly an airliner by using the real horizon etc. Instrument time in this context refers to the literal flying of the aircraft that is always done (except for the two phases I originally mentioned) solely by instruments. In the UK and Europe there is no such thing as logging IFR; it is logging of instrument flying as already defined. The Q asked about instrument time not IFR time. Flying the aircraft by reference to instruments does not mean one cannot or should not look out of the window.
[This message has been edited by Hew Jampton (edited 23 October 2000).]