Folks,
Simulator time should always be logged as sim. time, it is not flight time. Full stop!
Part 61 has not changed this.
The fact that some training organisation have individual "approvals" to vary the recording of training time contrary to ICAO Annex 1, or individual NAAs regulations, does not change that basic recording.
The above. para referrers to certain NAA (not FAA) allowing what we would regard as non-normal logging of "flight time", such as allowing certain flight time to be logged as in-command (not AICUS) when an instructor is aboard. These same NAA "allow", in the case of certain contract flying schools, to log sim. time as instrument flight time, for the purpose of issuing a CPL/IR.
Tootle pip!!