MauleSkinner
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About the same two miles as from our farm strip to my uncle’s.
What Constitutes Cross Country Time?
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(ii) For the purpose of meeting the aeronautical experience requirements (except for a rotorcraft category rating), for a private pilot certificate (except for a powered parachute category rating), a commercial pilot certificate, or an instrument rating, or for the purpose of exercising recreational pilot privileges (except in a rotorcraft) under §61.101 (c), time acquired during a flight—
(A) Conducted in an appropriate aircraft;
(B) That includes a point of landing that was at least a straight-line distance of more than 50 nautical miles from the original point of departure; and
(C) That involves the use of dead reckoning, pilotage, electronic navigation aids, radio aids, or other navigation systems to navigate to the landing point.
Origin airport is A. Airport B is 35 miles north. Airport C is 15.1 miles north of airport B. and 50.1 miles from airport A. They are all in a direct straight line. If it is 50.1 miles from airport a to airport C, and you fly in this order from a to b to c and back, or if you just end at c. It meets the requirment for cross country for training. The regulation does not say that there has to be a 50 NM leg, just that there is a landing 50nm from the origin.
This would work but you could not log the first A to B leg. The cross country would occur from B to C to A.
(A) Conducted in an appropriate aircraft;
(B) That includes a point of landing that was at least a straight-line distance of more than 50 nautical miles from the original point of departure; and
(C) That involves the use of dead reckoning, pilotage, electronic navigation aids, radio aids, or other navigation systems to navigate to the landing point.
Origin airport is A. Airport B is 35 miles north. Airport C is 15.1 miles north of airport B. and 50.1 miles from airport A. They are all in a direct straight line. If it is 50.1 miles from airport a to airport C, and you fly in this order from a to b to c and back, or if you just end at c. It meets the requirment for cross country for training. The regulation does not say that there has to be a 50 NM leg, just that there is a landing 50nm from the origin.
This would work but you could not log the first A to B leg. The cross country would occur from B to C to A.
unsafervguy
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So if you were piloting the space shuttle would it be cross country? The launch pad is about a half mile from the landing strip, but is the pad considered an airport or a different part of the whole airport?
Greg Bockelman
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If I was piloting the space shuttle, it wouldn't matter if I logged it as cross country time or not. Not to me or probably just about anyone else.
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If Voyager landed on a different runway but within the confines of Edwards AFB, is it still considered landing at the same point?
Dave Theisen
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I can picture the folks interviewing Hoot Gibson for a job at Southwest, “We would really like to hire you, but we have to ask you about this 438 hours of cross country time that you logged”
unsafervguy
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next time I see him, im going to ask about it!I can picture the folks interviewing Hoot Gibson for a job at Southwest, “We would really like to hire you, but we have to ask you about this 438 hours of cross country time that you logged”