Logging x/c time and definition of landing

Call me uninspired, but I use Excel as my electronic logbook. It serves as
a back-up to my physical logbook.

"Gerald Sylvester" wrote in message
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What electronic logbook do you recommend? I'm taking my checkride in
a couple of weeks for my PPL and would like to log my time easily from
the get go before I start racking up thousands of hours

Gerald



Matthew Waugh wrote:

As best I can tell the "any airports a cross-country" is only useful for
qualifying for Part 135 PIC (and I guess Part 121 - never looked). So if
you
plan to want to meet the 1200TT, 500XC for Part 135, start tracking.

If you plan to do much flying at all, get an electronic logbook.
Insurance
companies, the FAA, employers all want time tracked in different and
byzantine ways and a paper logbook will never keep up, you'll always
have to
go back and add up the numbers of hours you have in complex, high
performance aircraft within the past 90, 180 and 2000 days, or high
performance seaplane landings at night.

Mat

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"Koopas Ly" wrote in message
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Howdy,

I was reading a short article on AOPA regarding logging x/c time.

By definition, cross-country time includes any flight with a landing
at any airport other than the departure airport; there is no distance
requirement. Reference: FAR 61.1(b)(3)

Of course, the catch is that:

To meet the requirements (except rotorcraft) for a private
certificate, a commercial certificate, and the instrument rating
(except instrument-helicopter), cross-country time requires a landing
at least 50 nm from the point of departure. FAR 61.1(b)(3)(ii)


Since I will probably go for an instrument rating soon, and then
commercial, should I indeed refrain from logging ALL flights with a
landing at an airport other than the departure airport in the x/c
column, regardless of distance?

For instance, I can't do touch and go's at my home airport (HNL), and
have to go to a nearby Class D airport to shoot landings. The
destination airport is definitely within 50 nm of HNL. Technically,
these flights count as x/c, even though I've never logged them as
such. Likewise, I've flown to airports only 47 nm away.

What do you guys/gals do? I guess it would depend on whether or not
you're persuing additional ratings.

Another question would be: what qualifies as a landing? A touch and
go is a landing, from experience. What about touching one wheel,
applying full power, and climbing away never to be seen again? Would
that count as a "landing"?

Alex