flyingcowboy69
Filing Flight Plan
I was wanting to know if your instructor is supposed to fly with you to a new airport before sendind you to do your solo cross crountrys?
What doesn't happen is going dual to the airport you're going to on your solo XC.
Columbia (MRC)
South of Nashville about 45 miles down I-65.
IIRC, Leslie only had ONE solo XC, and it was to airport she hadn't visited before. It missed qualifying for the Commercial XC by about 10NM. It's not how either she or the instructor really wanted it, though. The weather just pushed it right up against her scheduled checkride.
Roughly Chicago to Carbondale (southern tip of Illinois) to St. Louis (Litchfield, actually) to Quad Cities back to Chicago. All in one day. (Okay, I may have reversed the order, she'll correct me if I did.)Must have been a sssslllllooooow plane. You need 5 hours of solo XC time:
61.109(a)(3)(i)
Location Airways Course Mag Crs Distance Total
BOLINGBROOKS CLOW INTL [1C5]
APT to APT 193° 196° 240.6 nm 240.6 nm SOUTHERN ILLINOIS [MDH]
APT to APT 347° 348° 85.3 nm 325.9 nm LITCHFIELD MUNI [3LF]
APT to APT 345° 346° 142.3 nm 468.2 nm QUAD CITY INTL [MLI]
APT to APT 081° 082° 108.1 nm 576.3 nm BOLINGBROOKS CLOW INTL [1C5]
Must have been a sssslllllooooow plane. You need 5 hours of solo XC time:
61.109(a)(3)(i)