Which is, of course, utter nonsense!
Quite right too BEagle. Autopilots are much more reliable than students - the analogy is not valid at all.
9M - as Whopity says, different countries use different rules. In this country, instructors can log IF if the aircraft is in IMC, regardless of whether the instructor or the student is the handling pilot. Just like airline captains and their first officers...
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