"Roy Smith" wrote in message
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You can certainly log contact approaches if it turns you on to keep
track of them. But, a contact approach is not an "instrument
approach", and it's not conducted under "actual or simulated
instrument conditions". Therefore, it doesn't count towards the IFR
currency requirements of 14 CFR 61.57(c)(1)(i).


Conditions less than the minimums prescribed for VFR are actual instrument
conditions.