Hilton,

The shortest way you can fly the "250nm leg, 300nm, 3 stops," and
return the aircraft where you got it, is to go straight out 250nm,
land, and return, stopping once on the way out or back. In other words,
the shortest way you can meet this requirement is to fly 500nm *if*
you're not leaving the airplane somewhere.

I'm going to back to school full time in the fall, so feel kinda cash
poor, so I have turned kinda cheap.

I already noted I was wrong about the long x/c, it does not need to be
vfr. The night time in the next section of the reg, however, does.

-- dave j