Cross country time build
 

I fly alot at my current job but all of it is local time 0 Cross country.I am getting close to the 1500 but i am short 200 hrs cross country time.Any suggestions on how to build cross country time near ventura,California

Fly further?

willing to fly anywhere as long as i come back to cali

a quick touch and go at one of the numerous airports in the area.

Don't know if this helps, but for ATP purposes you don't have to land any where you just have to fly to a point 50 nm away.

Go through and make sure any flight in the records that landed at 2 points was counted. Still not enough and you may be looking at some sort of time building project, ferry, or CFI work. I had to do a C152 time building project to get mine up towards the end.

Get 3 of you buddies together, rent a 172 for ROAD TRIP to Las Vegas!

Do this every Friday night, for about two months.

Make them pay for the airplane, or at least split it 4 ways.

That's how I paid for my cross country hours when I was 18 in college, but instead of Las Vegas, it was for an overnight to an all girls college to visit my girlfriend, so I pimped out her girlfriends, and I never had trouble filling the airplane with willing participants.:D

I thought it had to be more than 50 nm to count as cross country

sounds perfect wish i could do that ,30 ,married with children and works every weekend

that is my dilemma i fly within 15 nm of my airport

Man, it must suck to be you! :eek::D

Take up something else. Starting flying at age 30, already with a wife and children, is a recipe for divorce.

You KNOW you will be gone a lot, right? That's what pilots do, they leave home for several days every week, and when they are junior, they miss all the holidays and kids birthdays and other family events. But you can't even leave them alone long enough to get your ATP?

Why do you want it? What are you going to do with it if/when you get it? Stay home and baby sit? :rolleyes:

Sorry if that is a dose of reality, but if you can't make time in your busy life just to get the license, what are you going to do with it if/when you get it? Not too many pilot jobs where you don't have to travel, and it's usually on weekends and holidays.

I'll fly the 777 i bought for my kid around the living room and make engine noises

More slowly.






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For ATP minimums it has to be 50nm+. The only thing 'point to point' cross country of less than 50nm counts towards is Part 135 PIC minimums.

Good to know i'm not the only trained professional who does this.