Originally Posted by
BlackPaw
For my instrument rating the FAR states I need 50 hours x/c pic.
My question is what are the requirements for an "x/c flight"?
EX. If the examiner is looking through my log book and finds 20 hours x/c going from BJC to FNL (only 33 miles) would he subtract those?
Yup.
It needs to include a landing at a point 50nm straight-line distance from your point of origin. Read up on it at FAR 61.1 (b)
(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
(C) That involves the use of dead reckoning, pilotage, electronic navigation aids, radio aids, or other navigation systems to navigate to the landing point.