The U.S. regulation was posted. If it doesn't apply to your country log time per your country's laws.
Here's a couple of things to think about -
1. If you think that by looking at your instruments in VMC allows you to log IMC time what happens if you lose your instruments? Can you still log IMC time?
2. Aerobatics often requirements specific and exact speed, altitudes, G's, bank angles, and headings. Does that qualify for instrument flight since aerobatics are conducted in VMC?
3. Low level attack to pop ups geometry required exact speed, headings, pitch attitudes, dive angles, airspeed checks, aimpoints/aim-offs, and then release altitudes. And in the old days it required manual updates to you mil settings (HATS anyone??). All using instruments. Do they people that believe referencing instruments in VMC would allow fighter pilots to log IMC time on those missions?
Yes, in the U.S. you can't log time as the nay-sayers that have posted on here believe. We're interviewing in the U.S. A basic review of a candidate includes flight time review. Flight time outside of the legally defined time might indicate one or two possible reasons - 1. a lack of knowledge of the FAR's, or 2., a desire to 'pad' their flight time. Neither comes across well in an interview.
One guy had 30% of his flight time as IMC(instrument). That meant 60% of his entire career was spent in IMC(two pilot operations). I've seen hundreds of resumes. No one, not one, had that percentage. No one came close to that percentage. We're hiring less than 5% of the candidates. Why should he make the top 5%?
Last edited by misd-agin; 1st Oct 2015 at 00:53.
Reason: two pilot operations