How to log IF hours?

[Goffel]

People log IF hours in all different ways....I have known guys to have 2000 hours TT with 1900 hours IF time because they flew on an IF flight plan.

Be honest with yourself....remember you might apply for a job where strict IF flying is needed because of terrain and weather and if you have been exaggerating your instrument time and experience....you will probably kill yourself and others.

Most contract pilots only logged the approach and landing time or when they actually polled themselves in IF conditions.(i think we logged 0.2 for the approach).

By the time you get into an airline...IF time becomes irrelevant.....because then it becomes system management time.

Goffel.

[Skyhawk7500]

Good day..

Would like to add to this thread.
Recently got denied a job because my IF hours not the minimum of 100 required by the company.
Ive got 3000hrsTT been flying IFR last 5years.
I log 0.2 per approach only when in actual IMC, hence my IF hours sits at 80hrs.

Now this is annoying because Im aware of some guys with 500+ hrs with less TTime.

Or am I logging incorrectly?

Thanks a mil..

[Richard Smit]

Instrument time is when flight is conducted solely by reference to instruments. Actual IF is when one does so in real life (not training in a simulator, or with a safety pilot).

This includes dark nights, and flight in cloud (regardless of what opinions may exist) as we have a definition which is simple to understand, and just as simple to apply to the question of logging.

The widely applied practice of only logging 0.2 or 0.3 hours for the approach at the end of a flight that was conducted by sole reference to instruments is incorrect, and not in accordance with the definition. The abbreviated IF logging trend is as incorrect as only logging flight time while actually manipulating the controls (no logging time while on auto-pilot).

Pilots should log "actual IF" as per the definition.

[AviatorChuck]

Instrument time is when flight is conducted solely by reference to instruments. Actual IF is when one does so in real life (not training in a simulator, or with a safety pilot).

This includes dark nights, and flight in cloud (regardless of what opinions may exist) as we have a definition which is simple to understand, and just as simple to apply to the question of logging.

The widely applied practice of only logging 0.2 or 0.3 hours for the approach at the end of a flight that was conducted by sole reference to instruments is incorrect, and not in accordance with the definition. The abbreviated IF logging trend is as incorrect as only logging flight time while actually manipulating the controls (no logging time while on auto-pilot).

Pilots should log "actual IF" as per the definition.

As per the definition,I agree with you.