LeSving wrote:
We still have a rule in Norway saying flying further than 50 NM from the starting point requires an operational flight plan
Are you sure that’s still the case? Do you have the reference?
About 65% x-country vs 35% local as per FAA definition, i.e. min 50Nm in straight line between t/o and landing airfield.
100%
MedEwok wrote:
I always thought "cross country " is when you leave the traffic circuit…
The more basic point might be that AFAIK there isn’t any EASA license or rating that requires any x/c time (apart from the EASA CPL x/c which IIRC is 300nm, but that is a specific flight which is normally set up to be done on a single day between suitably distant airports) whereas in the US system there are such requirements, although it being about 10 years since I collected my last FAA bit of paper I can’t remember them 
The FAA CPL also has a x/c requirement of 300nm and with landings at 3 different airports but again that is normally set up as a one-day trip.
On a local flight for currency I try to never do less than 1hr – to allow the oil to warm up properly. Usually I do more or less just 1hr – a nice flight with passengers is around the Isle of Wight which is 1hr. So my average flight time is going to be more than 1hr.
Peter wrote:
The more basic point might be that AFAIK there isn’t any EASA license or rating that requires any x/c time
Hm, what about the PPL to begin with? 10 hours of solo flight time out of which 5 must be cross-country time are required.
The 150nm-flight with two intermediate stops usually takes about 2,5 hrs. block time, all the rest of the solo time can be flown on A-to-A-flights. Whether this makes sense from a training standpoint is another debate.
I thought a EASA PartFCL PPL required a 150nm+ cross country solo flight.
Yes, sorry, although that is again just a specific flight. It doesn’t define “x/c” as 150nm; likewise the CPL 300nm one doesn’t define “x/c” as 300nm.
Peter wrote:
Yes, sorry, although that is again just a specific flight. It doesn’t define “x/c” as 150nm
Correct, but you need cross-country time for the PPL on top of that specific flight – so an EASA definition of XC-time is required to define which flights qualify and which do not.
Pretty much all of them as far as the normal definition of point to point flights are concerned. I have not done a round trip without landing elsewhere for a while, I think the last one was in 2013 but lasted 4 hours.
