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Filing Flight Plan
I just started my instrument rating last week and did a XC flight on hood with my CFII. We did some practice en route, turns/climbs/descents and pattern A.
The flight was 2.0 hours, but my instructor only logged 1.6 hours XC time in my logbook. His argument is that a normal flight from airport A to airport B only takes 0.8 hours, and you can not count the time spent on instrument practice maneuvers en route as XC time.
I am not sure if this is right. Assume the straight line distance between airport A and B is more than 50 nautical miles. If a regular normal flight from A to B takes 1.0 hours, and I do some practice maneuvers for 0.5 hour en route, do I log 1.5 or 1.0 as XC? What happens if I have to hold somewhere en route for 0.5 hours due to ATC? Is that a 1.5 or 1.0 XC?
The flight was 2.0 hours, but my instructor only logged 1.6 hours XC time in my logbook. His argument is that a normal flight from airport A to airport B only takes 0.8 hours, and you can not count the time spent on instrument practice maneuvers en route as XC time.
I am not sure if this is right. Assume the straight line distance between airport A and B is more than 50 nautical miles. If a regular normal flight from A to B takes 1.0 hours, and I do some practice maneuvers for 0.5 hour en route, do I log 1.5 or 1.0 as XC? What happens if I have to hold somewhere en route for 0.5 hours due to ATC? Is that a 1.5 or 1.0 XC?
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