I think that you guys are missreading the regs big time.

I think that any IFR approach is logable, not only the IMC ones. For
example, the Contact approach is a perfect IFR approach and from legal
perspective should satisfy the requirements for a IFR approach.





"Victor J. Osborne, Jr." wrote in message ...
That's what I do and think it is supported by the regs. I don't have anyone
in the right seat telling me otherwise.

Victor J. (Jim) Osborne, Jr.



"Ron Garret"
The original question was: under what circumstances can an approach be
logged for the purposes of maintaining IFR currency? Obviously if
you're under the hood with a safety pilot or in hard IMC to minimums you
can log it, and if you're in VMC without a hood you can't. But where is
the line?


I'd log the approaches that were necessary to complete the flight. If
there's solid cloud at or below the MIA/MVA an approach is necessary to
reach the destination, even if the field is VMC.