Recording IFR
That's not uncommon. Believe it or not there are many around the word who record any flight on an IFR Flight Plan as IMC. That is wrong of course for the whole purpose of the recording of IMC time is to understand how much experience the pilot has flying by the sole use of instruments. The rationale behind the use of the Flight Plan gag comes from the FW world and based on the fact that if they are flying at 29,000 feet the they must be flying on instruments but of course an offshore pilot a 3,000 feet (or less) may well be VMC most (if not all) of the time.
In the end those that fiddle their logbooks are only cheating themselves for they in fact create a written record of their abuse for eternity. I have met a couple of guys recently who actually rewrote their entire logbook rather than live with what they now knew was wrong.
Of course that doesn't correct the fact that they used their 'fiddled' hours to get employment or maybe even an ATP or CPL. CV Fraud is a fact of life these days.
Before anyone asks - NO YOU CANNOT RECORD SFI TIME WORKING AT THE INSTRUCTOR STATION AS FLIGHT TIME.
G.