Cross Country Definition

I think Cross country (or distance flight) is whatever takes you out of
local gliding range of your home airport... That is, when you need to take a
thermal, get some heigh, or you land out.

"f.blair" escribió en el mensaje
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I saw a posting on a web site about Steve Fossett's around the world
flight.
Just think, since he landed at the same airport that he took off from, he
can't log that flight as 'cross country flight'.

"J.A.M." wrote in message
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I think Cross country (or distance flight) is whatever takes you out of
local gliding range of your home airport... That is, when you need to take
a
thermal, get some heigh, or you land out.


What you think is not according to hoyle, IAW with US 14CFR

BT

Hi,

I saw a posting on a web site about Steve Fossett's around the world flight.
Just think, since he landed at the same airport that he took off from, he
can't log that flight as 'cross country flight'.

Was that the same website that said he could log an outside loop for the
flight?

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Marian Aldenhövel wrote:
Hi,

I saw a posting on a web site about Steve Fossett's around the world
flight. Just think, since he landed at the same airport that he took
off from, he can't log that flight as 'cross country flight'.


Was that the same website that said he could log an outside loop for the
flight?


LOL

"f.blair" wrote in message link.net...
I saw a posting on a web site about Steve Fossett's around the world flight.

He didn't go around the world, only around the north end, a shorter
distance. He never crossed the equator (among great circles).

-- Plane Jain http://www.rev.net/~aloe/geography

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"f.blair" wrote in message
link.net...
I saw a posting on a web site about Steve Fossett's around the world
flight.

He didn't go around the world, only around the north end, a shorter
distance. He never crossed the equator (among great circles).

He used what the FAI definition has *always* been. Yeah, so it would be
nice if the definition involved flying over at least one pair of points
that are the opposite each other, but it's not.

btw there is an upcoming atempt to fly around the world non-stop using
solar energy. The plans depend on being able to fly through the night
on stored energy. They've figured that batteries will be good enough in
2009.

http://www.solarnavigator.net/solar_impulse.htm

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Bruce Hoult wrote in message ...
In article ,
(The Green Troll) wrote:
He didn't go around the world, only around the north end, a shorter
distance. He never crossed the equator (among great circles).

He used what the FAI definition has *always* been. Yeah, so it would be
nice if the definition involved flying over at least one pair of points
that are the opposite each other, but it's not.

The FAI is no authority on geometry. I hope some pilot defies that
warped pretense by flying over both poles.

-- Lead Baron http://www.rev.net/~aloe/geography