61.57 is vague? You did the checkride Feb of 08 so it's more than 6 months. The 6 month clock starts from the last date you can look back and find 6 logged approaches and a hold. If you did 3 in March, 2 in May and one in June and held in July you would have been good till Sept. For another 6 months you could do your own recurrent by going out and holding and doing 6 approaches. After that you need a IPC. So if you didn't do a total of 6 approaches (and hold) during June and July, you need the IPC.