wrote:
I know this is an old topic, but looking back into the archives of
this group, I couldn't find a definitive or current answer. And, this
came up for me yesterday when I booked a simulator for IFR currency.

I looked at their web page, lets be clear. There are not approved
simulators. They are level 3 flight training devices.

To my knowldege there is no change. FTD time is still required to be
instruction to be loggable. The only real wording change in this since
eigthies was the replacement of flight instructor with authorized
instructor everywhere so that it was clear that anybody with appropriate
credentials (ground instructors, certain airline pilots) could give
instruction in simulators and FTD's.

There was proposed regulation to allow the mere supervision of an
instructor over FTD training in the NPRM that came out earlier this
year but that rule has not been adopted.