24,000 mile scenic?

That used to be true. It changed about 30 years ago. Except for initial
cross-country time for beginning ratings you don't have to land at another
airport to log cross country. I flew 24 hour airborne alert flights in the
B-52H at Minot AFB, ND in the early 60s. At that time it couldn't be logged
as cross-country since I took off from and landed at Minot 24 hours later.
It was changed (I believe in the early 70s) so that it can be counted as
"general" cross country time.

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Darrell R. Schmidt
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"Roger Long" wrote in message
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When Steve Fossett gets back from his round the world flight and sits down
to fill out his logbook, it's a bit strange that he won't be able to log
any cross country time.

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Roger Long

14 CFR 61.1(b)(3)(vi) is the relevant paragraphs. It only applies to
military pilots, so while it applies for Darrell S, it doesn't not for
Steve Fosset. Unless the FAA makes a special case or something.
grin My guess is that Steve Fosset's not doing this for the CC time
in his logbook though...

-Malcolm Teas

Unless he's going to apply the time towards a rating for which it
matters, I'd say the "gee" factor of a 24,000 mile local flight
overrides the benefit in the book of XC time.

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wrote:

My guess is that Steve Fosset's not doing this for the CC time
in his logbook though...

He'd probably cursing the fact that he didn't get in a single T&G outside
the 50 mile "ring".

- Andrew