Originally Posted by
Fly Boy Knight
I use the definition of cross country time when calculating my cross country time for an app or on a resume. Unless they say other wise, that is what I do.
As for taking off from Jax NAS and landing at Cecil and calling it cross country time...
Since you managed turn towards the west and not toward the ocean, and since you managed to land a Cecil and not the weird airport to the north of it or even JAX int'l, you must have used some form of pilotage to arrive at Cecil Field and therefore, you conducted a cross country as per the All-Knowing FAA's definition of cross country.
I wasn't advocating my way of logging x/c time over any other way - especially trying to decifer FAA regs - and if mine is more restrivtive than the *actual* definition then I'm operating on the safe side.
When you mention the 'weird' airport to the north - are you talking about OLF Whitehouse? Now finding Whitehouse at night - even from the former NAS Cecil - with the lights down low would qualify as using pilotage (and that was with a INS
) and x/c time!
USMCFLYR