Blake Oliver wrote:
A "glider" is not defined as an "airplane", as per the FAR's.

And this affects the following how?

FAR 61.129 says "50 hours of cross-country flight of which at least 10
hours must be in airplanes".

So, 40 hours could be in a sailplane, or in a gyro-copter for that matter.


FAR 61.1 defines cross country time as, among other things, flight
with landing beyond 50 nautical miles of departure and "conducted in
an appropriate aircraft".

The only question is whether or not the FAA interpretation which
finally comes down will accept the sailplane as "an _appropriate_
aircraft". IMO, 50+ mile x-c in a sailplane is a more significant (and
demanding) x-c flight than it would be in C-150.



Jack