Logging x-country time?

Question

For purposes of logging x-country time for additional ratings, is it 25 Nautical Miles straightline distance that's required?? Thanx!

Answer 1

It depends on which rating you're pursuing. Read the FAR's relevant. For insturments, it's 50 NM. For ATP, it's landing at a different airport. Read the rules to make sure you're following them.

Answer 2

The 25 nm that you are thinking of is the limit of a student pilot without getting a x-c endorsement.

For all of the certificates and ratings (including ATP, unlike someone else said), they need to be 50nm.

For most everything else, I wouldn't log anything less than 50nm as x-country. Technically, any time you land at another airport, it can be logged as such, but nobody cares about that time. Not only is it useless towards any cert or rating, it's useless on a resume. All of the applications I have filled out specify that the x-c time they want is >50nm.

Answer 3

no, its a distance that is more than 50nm
see (ii) (B)
14CFR 61.1
(3) Cross-country time means—

(i) Except as provided in paragraphs (b)(3)(ii) through (b)(3)(vi) of this section, time acquired during flight—

(A) Conducted by a person who holds a pilot certificate;

(B) Conducted in an aircraft;

(C) That includes a landing at a point other than the point of departure; and

(D) That involves the use of dead reckoning, pilotage, electronic navigation aids, radio aids, or other navigation systems to navigate to the landing point.

(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

Answer 4

You have to log the REQUIRED cross country flights in accordance to the rating sought.

any flight where the wheels touch down at a different airport is considered cross country for all other reasons.

Answer 5

Sorry Nick S, but you did not read the regulations you cited. 50 NM not required for ATP, as stated in Part 62.1(b)(3)(i)(C). Part 62.1(b)(3)(ii) requires 50 NM, but as you can see, does not apply to ATP experience.

And yes, CSU flyer, it is measured straight line in nautical miles.

Answer 6

mileage between points, so yes, straightline