Bruce:

You're not exactly right regarding glider cross-country time. In the
USA, the FAA on form 8710 (Airman Certificate or Rating Application)
asks for (amongst other things) Cross Country Time (Instruction, solo
and PIC). My local district office agreed that the definition given
for airplanes was not applicable to this form. They also confirmed
that the definition for glider cross-country time is not given in any
FAA documentation and that I should use the "conventional gliding
community definition of flight time beyond gliding distance of the home
field".

You can't use this time for any rating where a cross-country flight
requires a landing. However, if you do land more than 50 miles from
home, you can use this logged glider time for some airplane ratings.

We discussed this not long ago on RAS, as I remember.

Mike

ASW 20 WA