Cross-country flying

A cross-country flight (English Cross-Country Flight) is a flight between two points (usually airports ) means air navigation. In order to distinguish this is under one, often carried out from training or training purposes, understood circling a flight within the traffic pattern of an airport and a local flight, a with the same start and destination airport.

Legal definition

In Germany, a cross-country flight begins according to aviation policy, LuftVO § 3a already, if the pilot is the traffic in the traffic pattern of the departure airfield can not see, whether later landed again at the aerodrome of departure or to another landing site.

For noise abatement reasons LärmschutzV § 's landing site - Noise Abatement Ordinance, 1 set, may that be done on busy flight bursting with more than 15,000 aircraft movements last year, takeoffs and landings while the rest only by aircraft with noise certificate for cross-country flights.

Flight Planning

At each cross-country flight, the pilot with the aviation weather reports and forecasts must familiarize and conduct a pre-flight and flight planning. There is a minimum altitude of 600 meters (2000 feet ) to comply with above ground or water.

Training

Cross-country flights are integral components of the pilot training. Depending on the desired license or rating several cross-country flights must be detected with a flight instructor and flying solo. These different aerodromes shall be flown at a minimum distance from each other in general.