Okay, I see your point.

Let me ask you this. Would you put it in the far right total time column?

And I'll say that when one is interviewing for a job, and the guy asks how much "actual IFR time" do you have, that he's not speaking to your time in a ground trainer. So, how do you seperate out the two types of IFR time (actual and simulated) in your logbook? Or, does it really matter?

Here's an interesting issue. The Amflight mins say this:

75 hours instrument (at least 50 in flight)

One could make the argument based on 61.51g, that the word "flight" includes "ground trainer". (Congratz, you just convinced me of that). That said, I would't go to an Amflight interview and try to convince them that the "50 in flight" could be in a ground trainer. See where I'm going with this?