Obtaining your XCountry Hour requirement

[BoDEAN]

How did you 135 guys achieve your cross-country hour requirement? Being a CFI with primary studnets...seems like it will take forever to achieve that 500 X-Country requirement.

 

[snoopy_1]

For meeting the part 135 cross country requirement of 500 hours, check out FAR 61.1, the definition of cross country time

time acquired during a flight --

(A) Conducted by a person who holds a pilot certificate;

(B) Conducted in an aircraft;

(C) That includes a landing at a point other than the point of departure; and

(D) That involves the use of dead reckoning, pilotage, electronic navigation aids, radio aids, or other navigation systems to navigate to the landing point.

This means that on each one of your instructing flights you could head over to Riverview or Holland or any of the private fields around Z98 and do a touch and go and the whole flight is considered cross country.


The 500 hour cross country requirement for the ATP certificate is totally different than the 500 hour cross country requirement for FAR 135:

For the purpose of meeting the aeronautical experience requirements for an airline transport pilot certificate (except with a rotorcraft category rating), time acquired during a flight --

(A) Conducted in an appropriate aircraft;

(B) That is at least a straight-line distance of more than 50 nautical miles from the original point of departure; and

(C) That involves the use of dead reckoning, pilotage, electronic navigation aids, radio aids, or other navigation systems.

 

[MarineGrunt]

Flying a VFR 135 job will get you there quick. Best thing to do is get an instructing job at a school that has a charter operation so you can get a piece of that pie.

 

[U-I pilot]

How did you 135 guys achieve your cross-country hour requirement?

135 x-c requirements are not 50nm....so when u are instructing...just go to a nearby airport for touch and go practice and then it counts. make it a mock x-c plan or something...
close to half of my time is probably x-c this way.....

 

[CrewDawg]

This may seen trivial but just but I just wanted to clarify. I was talking to a AirNet guy who said the same thing about logging any time that you land at another airport as X-C. But that also doesn't count for your ATP as stated by snoopy_1. So can I log it in the X-C column and pick it apart when it comes time to see if I meet the mins for my atp or do I just log the different airpots in the route of flight column and go back add it up later.

 

[U-I pilot]

or you can use an electronic logbook (excel spreadsheet) and keep tabs that way and never have to worry about it in any case!