BizJetJock, at your behest, I have been to JAR-FCL 1.080 and found the following. But I don't have, and never have had, a CAP 407 logbook.
diverine, depending on your license issuing authority, make your own mind up (mine already is).
"(4) Pilot function:
(i) Pilot-in-command (including solo\\\\ slsolo, SPIC, PICUS time)
(ii) Co-pilot
(iii) Dual
(iv) Flight instructor / Flightexaminer
(v) A remarks column will be provided to give details of specific functions e.g. SPIC, PICUS, instrument flight time*, etc.
* A pilot may log as instrument flight time only that time during which he
operates the aircraft solely by reference to instruments, under actual or
simulated instrument flight conditions.
(5) Operational conditions:
(i) Night
(ii) IFR"
Trust a Eurocrat to consider IFR important enough to have a coulmn of its own and consign IF to the remarks column. Explains the state of Eurpean 'unity' today - all window dressing and sod all substance.
But I thinks it is fair to say IF is IF, REAL Instrument Flying. Will I log IFR now? Will, I bollocks! I don't have to, my license isn't JAR.