1) the requirement is 200 hours IFR, 50 of which can be "Instrument Ground Time" --> FNPT time. So if you have an IR, you start with 50-55. If the IR training isn't under IFR, nothing is.
2) If you have logged "sole reference" time only, be pragmatic. If someone asks you how much cross-country time you have, you go back over your logbook and see which flights were CC. Do the same.
--> Any flight with "sole reference" must be, at least partly, been IFR?
--> Any flights with remarks showing an IAP also, at least partly, IFR
--> Any flights you remember having flown airways?
etc.
The real problem, I suspect, is that most of those that have not logged 150 additional hours of IFR after gaining the rating actually have not FLOWN 150 hours IFR after gaining the rating. Previous CAA rules allowed any FI with a full IR to meet the requirements. Now, shock horror, the FI needs to have actual IFR experience...
Last edited by Cobalt; 7th May 2012 at 18:15.