Originally Posted by
AB335
If your flight plan is filed under IFR then anytime between off block to on block you are operating under IFR, even thou you are flying and taxiing under VMC. Seems like your trainer mixed up the concept of IFR with IMC
Exactly that. It's the rules you're flying under that count. Filed a flightplan for an IFR flight? It's chox IFR time.
Do an IMC training detail from a small airfieldwith no FPL and it's time under the goggles/hood, or time in IMC if you encounter it en-route.