"Mike the Strike" wrote in message
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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

The only reason for the "logging of cross country" time for gliders on the
Form.. so if you ever loose a log book, you can at least try to rebuild from
the last form filed.

Glider ratings do not require accumulated cross country time, as airplane
ratings do.

Also, it is just a place to collect data points for their statistics of what
type of flying activity is occurring.

BT