Ok, so I'm reading through the regs.
I had thought that the cross country time required for instrument rating had to be to a point at least 50NM away. For some reason, 50 sticks in my mind. Maybe it was on the signoff for private.
So, I am looking at the regs. FAR 61.65 (d)(1) Aeronautical experience says:
"A person who applies for an insturment rating must have logged the following:
(1) At least 50 hours of cross-country flight time as pilot in command, of which at least 10 hours must be in airplanes for an instrument-airplane rating; and"
So I can't find anywhere in the regs that define what 'cross-country' actually is. It is not defined in section one with all other definitions. Each time there is a lenght limit on cross country in other parts, it is listed, but not here.
So, what is the requirement for cross-country?
Is it simply to another airport?
I would like to know, and regs or some other reference to back up the definition if someone has that. It certainly would be nice to build the required time on a day when weather doesn't allow me to get very far from the 'local' airports that are 15, 20 or 30 miles away. Or like I had a time I had to turn back on a planned flight because a transponder went dead, and I had to clear the 30NM Class B ring. 35 min out, about the same back. Had about 1.2hrs more I could have logged if I could have just gone over and landed at another airport before returning home.
Thanks,
Josh
I had thought that the cross country time required for instrument rating had to be to a point at least 50NM away. For some reason, 50 sticks in my mind. Maybe it was on the signoff for private.
So, I am looking at the regs. FAR 61.65 (d)(1) Aeronautical experience says:
"A person who applies for an insturment rating must have logged the following:
(1) At least 50 hours of cross-country flight time as pilot in command, of which at least 10 hours must be in airplanes for an instrument-airplane rating; and"
So I can't find anywhere in the regs that define what 'cross-country' actually is. It is not defined in section one with all other definitions. Each time there is a lenght limit on cross country in other parts, it is listed, but not here.
So, what is the requirement for cross-country?
Is it simply to another airport?
I would like to know, and regs or some other reference to back up the definition if someone has that. It certainly would be nice to build the required time on a day when weather doesn't allow me to get very far from the 'local' airports that are 15, 20 or 30 miles away. Or like I had a time I had to turn back on a planned flight because a transponder went dead, and I had to clear the 30NM Class B ring. 35 min out, about the same back. Had about 1.2hrs more I could have logged if I could have just gone over and landed at another airport before returning home.
Thanks,
Josh