Originally Posted by
n.dave
Now my line trainer says ....
Since everything is somehow regulated, either by EASA directly or by the training manuals of your FTO or by the OM-D of the company you are flying for (which is probably what "line trainer" means) your line trainer can say what he wants. It doesn't matter in the least. When in doubt, within an ATO ask the head of training about it and within an AOC ask the training manager (now called "designated postholder training" or something in that style). And like others have already written, from the days of JAR-FCL/OPS through EU-OPS and now EASA-FCL/OPS I have never recorded IFR time other than off-block to on-block. Not as trainee, not as instructor and not as commercial pilot. No authority ever complained.