Originally Posted by
EXDAC
No, it was asserted that the simulated instrument time I have already logged is "IFR". I do not believe that it was. I have no doubt that I could conduct future flights as IFR if I wished but that's not appropriate for the type of flying I do now.
Probably me. I should have been more specific and said your 'Actual' could only legally have been IFR, your hood time would
likely be IFR (It didn't cross my mind that people practicing IMC flying would do so VFR. It's kind of like flying at midnight but not logging night.)
It's your logbook, and if you were outside of controlled airspace only YOU can decide if it was VFR or IFR wink wink.
If you were to go for an EASA licence and you have a logbook full of approaches flown under the hood but you want to insist to them that it wasn't IFR and that none of it should count, go for it.