Originally Posted by
mikearuba
Don't shoot me, but I'm pretty sure that this is going to depend on how you log it. If you're the type of guy that uses each line in your logbook for each one way flight, then no, that 15 mile trip would not count because you'd likely written it on a different line (after your 50 mile trip to airport B)
If you will log the entire trip on one line in your logbook, then I'd say that any flying that you do in the same aircraft on the same day, after you landed 50 miles away, is all going to count as Cross country time.
No examiner ever questioned me when I did the latter.
The FAA has never seemed to care about how you log the different legs, but we were always vaguely concerned that they might start some day. That's why people would say to take a reasonable approach: touch-and-go? OK. Gas stop? OK Lunch stop? Probably OK. Ski weekend? Maybe not OK.
But the legal counsel letter mentioned above basically formalizes the "don't care how you log it" policy so the length of the stop does not seem to matter, it's all about how you log it.