(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

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"