What can I log as XC time?

Bob wrote in message . ..
(SelwayKid) wrote:

What is the rating you are after?

It will probably just confuse you, but if you really want to
know, it's 1) insurance 2) commercial airplane 3) Sport CFI
*****
Bob
Check FAR 61.1 definitions.

The FAR's spell it out pretty
clearly. If you land at an airport or other place then where you take
off from, it is clearly a cross country flight.

But I posted "50 nm" and "usable for a rating" several times
to make it clear what type of XC time I wanted to log.

Yeah yeah I know.....
there are those who will argue the point but they can only see as far
as what is described in the FAR's and that only applies to those
flights needed to meet a particular requirement for a rating and that
is for Private or Commercial pilot, or the IFR XC. For the rest of it,
a 5 mile flight is XC. Outside of the specific regulation, its all
semantics.

But I'm interested in the "specific regulation"

Even ATPs need to land at a different airport
You're getting confused by the lack
of a distance requirement for the
required aeronautical experience to
*obtain* the ATP certificate.

Guilty.

Jose