Comparatively, an EASA FI needs 200hrs IFR to instruct for an IR, or 800hrs IFR if they are going for a standalone IRI. But, like FAA could have never flown under actual IMC.
Back to FAA again, I accept the point that there's a regulation (probably ignored by most people!) to separately log true versus simulated IMC. But, it's not clear to me that the FAA then has any use for those separate data? So, why do they want it?
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