"Teacherjh" wrote in message
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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.


I log as cross country the entirety of any flight any of whose landings is
more
than 50 nm from any other landing.

That's entirely your right (it's your logbook), and it certainly "feels"
like a crosscountry. If you have the Instrument and Commercial, it won't
matter.

However, you can't necessarily claim such a flight as part of the 50 hour
requirement for one of those ratings (61.1(b)(3)(ii)(B)), and many of us use
the cross-country column for that purpose. You can divide such a flight into
two portions and declare a second "original point of departure", but some
regard that as having less value. The examiner might not check, of course.

-- David Brooks