SLCPilot From United States of America, joined Aug 2003, 477 posts, RR: 3 Reply 4, posted (8 years 7 months 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 1435 times:
Cross country time? Sure they can, if they're counting it towards the ATP requirements per FAR 61.1(b)(3)(IV)(B), which reads.....
(iv) 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
It's neat to notice the flight does NOT require a landing at another airport. I recently logged 70 hours of XC time doing oil platform patrols offshore and, yes, I did count it as XC....
SLCPilot
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