There is no shortage of pilots who log instrument flight time purely because they are on an IFR flight plan and they are looking outside in sunny weather and twiddling the autopilot knobs.
Wasn't long ago when a Virgin Blue captain realised he was out of currency and after landing instructed his first officer who was completing the legal paperwork on the ground, to "put me down for two hours instrument flying" even though the flight was not only autopilot most of the time but in clear weather. Makes a complete mockery of the principle of the whole idea of logging time.
Of course CASA aren't interested. On another occasion the log book of an Ansett first officer revealed a grand total of 5200 hours of which 2800 hours was logged as instrument flight time on the 727. Just imagine having a nice egg and bacon breakfast on a tray in the cruise (Ansett crews ate very well - none of this low cost carrier stuff) and its your leg and its clear weather and the autopilot engaged and he logged the whole bloody trip as instrument flight time... Wonder what the captain logged...
Logging of instrument flight time in airliners is such a rort that you wonder what is the point.
It paid off though as he soon after got a job with Dragonair in Hong Kong.