In article , "Casey Wilson"
writes:

So what qualifies the approach as being in actual?

This whole thread is missing the real point. i think that the 90% reason to
log approaches is for your own information. You can look back a few months and
"evaluate" your readyness to fly IFR. Yea, I know that there laws that are to
be met but.... If you do 12 approaches(real or other) in the 6 months you will
be better prepared and if one didn't quite count, so what. You are not
satisfying a law, you are remaining capable of a skill once learned.

Chuck