"ArtP" wrote in message
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The only other rating that I know of that requires cross country in an
airplane is the ATP and those trips don't require a landing at another
airport.

Right. I missed the exception in (iv) when I looked up the definition
before. Still, seems to me if you're going to start logging flights 50NM
but without landings, then you ought to go back and figure out which flights
already exist in your log book that meet the same criteria.

That's just me though. It's hard enough keeping track of all the different
variations of kinds of flight time as it is, without adding an additional
level of complication, IMHO. For me personally, the number of flights I
make 50 NM out but don't land are minimal and 500 hours XC even only for
those flights with a landing is not very far away. I'll reach that
comfortably before I reach 1500 hours. Obviously, for other pilots, the
situation may well be exactly reversed.

One thing that's bugging me: didn't the ATP requirement not have any
distance requirement, but DID have a landing requirement? For some reason,
the current reg looks exactly opposite from what I remember, semantically
speaking.

Pete