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Originally Posted by JeffW85
For the ATP there is no requirement to have LANDED 50 miles away. Just to have landed somewhere other than where you left from and at some point have wandered at least 50 miles away.
There's probably no help to the jump and banner pilots here; but it may help some of the CFIs see that they're not quite as far from that 500 miles for the ATP as they thought they were. 
I am aware that for an ATP it doesn't require you to land somewhere 50 nm but here's my point when it comes to primary students. Most of your flights are within a defined practice area that you want the student to become familiar with (gnd reference points, frequencies, local airspace, etc.). If you fly 50NM away while in the midst of steep turns, slow flight, stalls, etc what are you teaching the student. They probably have no idea where they are and in their eyes it appears you are doing the manuevers going one way without reason. Guess what they are going to do when they are out doing a solo local flight?
However if you are flying with a INS student, they don't really need to see whats on the ground b/c they have a hood on the entire flight. So in this type of situation you could do something along those lines.
Talk about a thread drift...
Anybody who has submitted an application hear anything? Any we're looking for more qualified applicants emails?
05-06-2024
