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From: "Daniel A. Krantz" <dkrantz@dakran.com>
Subject: Re: Question on X-C
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FAR 61.1(b)(3)(ii)(B): "That includes a point of landing that was at least a
stright-line distance of more than 50 NM from the original point of departure.."

Your read on how to log it would be just right.  An XC flight doesn't have to be
round trip; imaging flying from NY to Miami; that is certainly an XC :)

Dan

jim! wrote:

> Steve Jones wrote:
> >
> > I recently achieved my PP-SEL license, and have been told that while I'm
> > flying my friends around for fun, that it would be beneficial to me if I
> > ever intend to get my instrument ticket, to make a landing at an airport at
> > least 50 nm away from home base so the time counts toward my X-C required
> > time.
> >
> > Assuming a situation such as this:
> >
> > A---------B----------C
> >
> > where airport "B" is home base, and is straight line distance of 30nm or so
> > from airports A and C, if I make a trip from B to C, log it as non-XC, then
> > fly from airport C to A, land, and go back home to B, can I log the C-A-B
> > portion of my day as cross country?  It seems reasonable, if a XC flight
> > does not have to be round trip, that this would be legal as long as A and C
> > are greater than 50 miles apart...
> >
> > Comments?
> >
> > -Steve
>
> You could log the C--> A part.
> I think there is some  text which says the airports must be 50 nm or
> more apart from each othr !
> jim



