Long XC for CPL

EdFred said:
He didn't. He looked it up. I look up info all the time when responding. It took me 19 seconds (rounded and timed with stopwatch) to open up a new tab on firefox, log into 1800wxbrief, click on the map, punch in RYY and LOU and get the result. You posted at 10:48, he posted at 1:20. That gave him about 2.5 hours to get the info, which is about 2.5 hours more than needed.
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Wow - taking time to dig into that detail of the post, fact checking - that is dedication to the POA!
 
iamtheari said:
I think there are some subtle but important differences in the instructional techniques used on the two flights.

Private dual cross-country: "That looks like your first landmark. We're a bit to the left, so let's talk through how not to
get lost before the next one."

Commercial dual cross-country: "How are you still getting lost at this point? I hope you wrote down the number for that truck driving school we saw."
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:)
 
IK04 said:
I need to find the regulations from 1978 to see what the requirements were then, because I remember different rules when I did my long XC.
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I am from the same era and they were in fact different then.
 
WDD said:
Wow - taking time to dig into that detail of the post, fact checking - that is dedication to the POA!
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Looks like this has already been resolved, but I was impressed you managed to cut it so close to the 250 nm limit so I punched it into Foreflight out of curiosity. I already had it open while planning another flight of mine so it really only took a few seconds to paste it in.

If the map in my signature implied I'm based in the same place as you are, then maybe it would be conceivable I memorized all the ~250 nm destinations when planning my CPL cross country... if you transfer to KANP I'll give you a run for your money on that one.
 
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IK04 said:
Kids these days have it easy.

Back in my day, it was a route with three legs and each one 200 NM from the start point, or something like that...
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200 miles out, 300 back- all uphill, with headwind, in the snow, no lighting except for an old Kerosene lamp, …..
 
And by the way, I did mine all IMC at night and picked up some scary ice over the Sierras.

When the sun came up, I was over San Francisco on top of a thick layer.
 
And picked up a hitchhiker wearing a hockey mask.
 
WDD said:
200 miles out, 300 back- all uphill, with headwind, in the snow, no lighting except for an old Kerosene lamp, …..
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I swear I have headwind on 85% of flights and when I have a tailwind it is 2 knots or so
 
WDD said:
200 miles out, 300 back- all uphill, with headwind, in the snow, no lighting except for an old Kerosene lamp, …..
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You had a kerosene lamp?!? We had to snag lighting bugs out of the slipstream to light the cockpit.
 
IK04 said:
I need to find the regulations from 1978 to see what the requirements were then, because I remember different rules when I did my long XC.

Is there an archive somewhere?
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I was thinking the same thing. I recall for Private, 2 or 3 cross countries, triangles with each leg a certain minimum distance. IIRC, two at 25 mile legs and one at 50 mile legs.

Commercial was similar, but longer legs. I got my Comm from Mil Equivalency, but did my Comm RH in the early 90s with a similar XC requirement. I did my Private RH XC to Comm requirements to count for both.
 
My longer PPL solo almost counted! L45-KIFP-KDAG-L45 .. 218 nm straight-line between L45 and KIFP.
 
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