Quick cross country logging question

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10-16-2014, 08:43 PM

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Flyboyxc91

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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.

I'm totally reviving this thread even if it is for a quick minute. I'll be the first to say I am extremely relieved to read "the latter" because my PPL flight instructor from two years ago had me logging the flight time as XC as long as the initial leg or at least one of the legs was at least 50NM long. So many flights since then I have did somewhat of a three trip round robin doing VOR intercepts etc to keep up my skills. I have been "doing the latter" from the quote above and hope I'm not going to get busted like I was "In the Wrong" for it. I was actually taught that way.... But I am gonna start to change this I believe.

10-17-2014, 07:00 AM

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JohnBurke

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http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/...rpretation.pdf

Additionally, where the question of definition of "original point of departure" arises, the most recent interpretive statement between MacPherson and Keller notes that there is no definition given for "original point of departure." The definition will be subjective to the classification in the logbook, and to an individual-case review.

http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/...rpretation.pdf