X-Country hours for Transport Mission Pilot

[41839j]

How do they define Cross Country hours here?  Is it any flight more than 25 nautical miles with a landing or just any flight of at least 25 miles that requires navigation?

[a2capt]

"here"?

On a private or ATP certificate, in a fixed wing aircraft other than a powered parachute, it's 50 nm.

A rotorcraft is 25 nm, or a sport pilot certificate in a fixed wing aircraft is also 25 nm.

A powered parachute, with appropriate endorsement and it's 15 nm.

The point of landing needs to be straight line distance at least that far away, and navigation aid use is required. Be it dead reckoning, VOR's, whatever.

Now add on the CAP requirements, and take away what's not operable under CAP regulation, and you'll see that it pretty much means a landing 50nm away, straight line distance, just like when you got your private certificate.

[JeffDG]

How do they define Cross Country hours here?  Is it any flight more than 25 nautical miles with a landing or just any flight of at least 25 miles that requires navigation?

FAR 1.1 defines Cross-Country as landing at any airport other than the one departed from.

The limitation on distance only applies to hours used for specific ratings, and the CAP regulations make no such restriction, so I would go by the basic definition of XC in the regulations.