Part 135 x country!!

[ipilot]

Flying a part 135 operations PIC, the biggest question for a low time pilot like me is where to get the 500 hrs of x country. if anyone who has gone through the instructor route knows that we don't get that much x country. apparently someone told me that i can use the time flown between two airports whether they r 50 nm apart or not as x country time. i couldn't find any information on the FAR's on this subject. so i need some help here, is this true? can i use that time towards my total x country. i know for ATP the x country has to be 50 nm but u don't have to land. i couldn't find anything on the part 135 x country requirement. thanks in advance.....


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[TurboS7]

Cross-country for 135 is just two diffrent airports they do not have to be 50 nm apart. Inspector's FAA Handbook

 

[sydeseet]

Yep, just two airports. The 50 nm is only for ratings/certificates.

 

[Rvrrat]

x-c time

ipilot,

sydeseat has it right; check 61.1b3 "Cross-country time means-"

 

[starchkr]

The above posts are right, any time flown between two airports is considerred 135 x-c time. However, DO NOT log that time in your logbook as x-c (in the x-c column) unless it is over 50 miles so that you can keep track of it for your ATP. I wrote that time in one of the blank columns that they have in the logbooks and labled it 135 x-c to keep it all straight. I am sure others have done it differently. Don't worry about the x-c time for the ATP, once you meet 135 mins, i believe that most of the flights you will make will be over 50 miles, so the x-c time for that will come quick.