"Cecil E. Chapman" wrote

For those of you who have your instrument ticket, how many hours
of actual IMC did you have when you got your ticket.

"Zero"...same as all the other Naval Aviators designated that
summer in Kingsville, TX. As a confidence building maneuver,
it is probably a nice thing to have for general aviation pilots
whose instrument training is not all that intensive to start
with, but it is not essential to the "learning" process.

Bob Moore
Flight Instructor, Airplanes-Instrument Airplane