Originally Posted by
Grumble
500 hours cross country time while instructing is one of the easiest metrics to meet.
If it were point to point XC like it is for 135 mins I would agree. But 50nm XC is not easy to come by in my experience CFIing. Unfortunately, the 141 courses where I'm at are rigid and that makes it very difficult to drag students 50 nm away from the airport on flights that are set up to be locals. Maybe its different elsewhere, but if a CFI is teaching mostly private and instrument (which most CFIs are) there is only so much XC time they can eek out without making the students pay for a bunch of extra flight time.
Personally, I'm averaging 18% 50 nm cross country out of all of my dual given. At this rate, I'll be sitting at well over 2500 TT before I meet the ATP XC requirement.