Hmm, that's an interesting point. I've certainly never had anyone raise that before. My way of thinking is that even with the autopilot on, you are still manipulating the controls, just doing it through the autopilot. Contrary to public opinion, these aircraft don't fly themselves. If this isn't the case then there would literally be no current IFR pilots in my airline. Ie, only logging handflown, IMC time, we would get maybe 30 mins a month max. So therefore most guys simply log two hours per sector flown as PF (long haul). Like I said earlier, I think it is so irrelevant these days to be pointless. Time spent on an IFR plan would give a much better summary of experience in my opinion.