Cross Country Definition

Bruce:

You're not exactly right regarding glider cross-country time. In the
USA, the FAA on form 8710 (Airman Certificate or Rating Application)
asks for (amongst other things) Cross Country Time (Instruction, solo
and PIC). My local district office agreed that the definition given
for airplanes was not applicable to this form. They also confirmed
that the definition for glider cross-country time is not given in any
FAA documentation and that I should use the "conventional gliding
community definition of flight time beyond gliding distance of the home
field".

You can't use this time for any rating where a cross-country flight
requires a landing. However, if you do land more than 50 miles from
home, you can use this logged glider time for some airplane ratings.

We discussed this not long ago on RAS, as I remember.

Mike

ASW 20 WA

"Mike the Strike" wrote in message
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Bruce:

You're not exactly right regarding glider cross-country time. In the
USA, the FAA on form 8710 (Airman Certificate or Rating Application)
asks for (amongst other things) Cross Country Time (Instruction, solo
and PIC). My local district office agreed that the definition given

The only reason for the "logging of cross country" time for gliders on the
Form.. so if you ever loose a log book, you can at least try to rebuild from
the last form filed.

Glider ratings do not require accumulated cross country time, as airplane
ratings do.

Also, it is just a place to collect data points for their statistics of what
type of flying activity is occurring.

BT

"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

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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(The Green Troll) wrote:

"f.blair" wrote in message
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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