Hi again Denti, you correctly guessed that I was refering to UK regs, and like you I do not know much about such things in other lands as I do not find myself in that situation, ever.
All I can say now is, if you are correct in what you are saying, and I have no other information at hand to prove you wrong, EASA will introduce a system that will remove any hope of assessing a pilots likely performance when FLYING an aircraft in inclement weather. For me, I still understand, and read,
Instrument flight time:
Time during which a pilot is controlling an
aircraft in flight solely by reference to instruments:
to mean as I said before, and that can be the only intention of the statement, as for me, to log IFR flight when I am eating my lunch, taking a wee wee, chatting to the boss, reading the newspaper or playing solitair on my iPad, is time that should play no part in my record of experience other than total time. I hold UK & FAA licences and on the several occasions when I have had to state my various flight times there has never been any questions about it.