one question. under the condition you mentioned above..under IFR plan and flying an airway and flying to a waypoint and reporting at a mandatory waypoint...on a clear day...are you not flying under the reference of your instrument to fly to those way points?
No, I would suggest you are not. If the EADI failed could I keep the aircraft straight and level by looking out the window? Yes, I could; which means I didn't need to fly SOLELY by reference to instruments in the first place, therefore not instrument flying. IFR does NOT = IMC.
again 2 different entries..
-instrument
-actual
This is the second time you have said this but it still makes no sense. In all of my logbooks there are columns for P1/Copilot etc day and night. Likewise, there are columns labelled Sim Inst and Act Inst. Having entered the relevant number of hours in the day/night columns I then enter 30 mins or whatever into the Act Inst column (or Sim Inst column) and that is the end of the story. The 30 mins is the time that I spent in IMC and, therefore, flew by sole reference to instruments. You keep saying there is a difference between instrument flying and actual/simulated instrument flying but I don't have a clue what you are talking about. IFR does not necessarily = instrument flying.
Edited to add:
FAR Part 61.51 has this to say:
(g) Logging instrument flight time. (1) A person may log instrument time only for that flight time when the person operates the aircraft solely by reference to instruments under actual or simulated instrument flight conditions