Originally Posted by
stbloc
It was always sold to me as any flight from airport to airport was a cross country for the ATP. I don't know whats right or wrong but if 50Nm is required, the airlines will be more desperate. CFI's don't fly many of their lessons over 50NM. Now what you will see is instructors taking students for 50nm joy rides at the students expense.
That's quite an insult to the CFIs out there. Lots of 121, 135 and 91 subpart K drivers also maintain their cfi tickets, and that's quite the insult to them as well. If you would pause and think prior to rambling, you would realize there will be opportunities within the instrument and commercial flight-courses for the young cfi to gain x/c time without ripping the students off. Integrity goes a long way in this business...