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XC Requirements

Plan the cross-country flights your certificate or rating requires — 61.109, 61.65, 61.129

14 CFR 61.129(a)(4)(i)300nm total, 3 landings, one leg at least 250nm straight-line from departure

What the regulation actually asks for

Certificate and rating cross-countries are specified by distance, by landing, and sometimes by who is aboard — a straight-line distance from the original departure point, a landing at each of several points, some solo, some with an instructor. The rules are precise and the words are easy to misread.

This planner works from your home field and shows routes that satisfy a chosen requirement, so you can see which trips would count before you fly them rather than afterwards.

Why it is easy to fly one that does not count

The common failures are geometric rather than procedural: a leg measured from the wrong point, a distance that just misses because it is computed between the wrong two airports, or a route with the right total mileage but not the right straight-line distance from where you started. None of them is obvious in the air, and all of them are obvious on a map beforehand.

Check it with your instructor

This is a planning aid, not a logbook endorsement and not a determination that a flight met a requirement. Your instructor signs off what counts, and the regulation governs — take the route to them before you take it flying.

Signing in

Nothing here needs an account. If you do sign in, the planner starts from the home field on your profile instead of an empty box, and briefing a route you have chosen carries it straight into a full dispatch brief — weather, alternates and your own minimums for that trip.