Jim wrote in message ...
I flew from Airport A to Airport B (did 1 touch-and-go) to Airport C
(did 1 touch and go) to airport D (did 3 touch and goes), then returned
to Airport A and landed. Airports A & D are greater than 50 nm apart.
Airports A&B, B&C, and C&D are less than 50 nm apart, respectively.

Should I log the entire flight as a 50nm Cross Country flight, or just
a portion? Should I delete the time spent doing touch and goes at
Airport D from the Cross Country time?


An interesting piece of FAR trivia, somewhat related to your question:
The 1986 flight by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, cirumnavigating the
globe in Burt Rutan's Voyager, would NOT count as cross country time
for the PP or COM certificate because it did not include a landing
more than 50 NM from the point of departure. It would count for the
ATP certificate, which does not require a landing. That
record-setting flight lasted over nine days and covered almost 25,000
miles.