it's not my rule... you can log it any way you want...

but for the purposes of satisfying cross country requirements to meet FAR
requirements for any rating... look up FAQ Part 61 and you will find an
example, where the long distance cross country for commercial rating
required 3 landings and 3 airports, So... a long 300nm flight with one fuel
stop and to wait for weather from Point A to Point B and to Point C this did
not meet the requirement.. as there were only two landings at B and C..
after conducting business for two days.. the pilot returns to Point C from
Point A. Non-stop This completed the cross country and met the requirements
of 3 airports and 3 landings at Point B, Point C, overnight and then Point A
on his return..

BT


"Teacherjh" wrote in message
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a cross country flight is not over until you return home.

Nope.

Suppose I fly 200 nm and land, discover the paint on the aircraft is
scratched,
and call the FBO to tell them the airplane is unflyable until it gets
fixed. I
take the train home.

I log this as a cross country flight. The flight is over.

The FBO has one pilot fly another pilot over to the airplane, and then
flies
back alone. She logs that as one or two flights. She might even log it
as
part of a flight (if she's on the way somewhere else - her call). The
other
pilot (the passenger) then inspects "my" airplane and determines that I'm
a
wuss for being afraid to fly with a scratch in the paint, but the gash in
the
wing needs some attention. The wing is replaced, and he flies the plane
another six hundred miles to get the new wing painted. This will take
three
weeks, so he too takes the train home, logging it as one flight. He does
three
weeks of flight instruction (seventy three flights) and then takes the
train
back to the airplane to fly it home, but in that time the FBO folded and
the
plane was sold to a chap in Duluth, four hundred twelve miles away.

He flies it to Duluth. The new owner flies him back to the airport where
his
FBO once was (and hopefully his car still is) and then flies back to
Duluth,
the new home of the airplane.

So, by your rule above, how many never-to-be-completed cross country
flights is
this airplane still flying at the same time?

Jose

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