Cross-Country Time Tracker

For most certificate requirements: flight time with a landing at a point more than 50 nm straight-line from departure (61.1). ATP purposes drop the landing requirement (>50 nm straight-line distance suffices), and some operations use other radii — so log the route on every entry and the same record answers any definition an application throws at you.

Defensibility and speed. The FAA's >50 nm definition makes XC time the most re-audited column in certificate applications — so the winning record is one where every entry already carries its qualifying context and the totals are recomputed continuously. Thirty seconds of logging per qualifying flight buys you instant, auditable answers for the rest of your career.

The 90-day and 12-month tiles answer the recency questions that pair with every total: underwriters ask for 'cross-country hours in the last 12 months' nearly as often as lifetime totals, and 50 hours XC PIC for the instrument rating style gates frequently include recency riders. Rolling sums recomputed at page load mean the figure you quote is correct on the day you quote it.

Clearing site data or doing a full browser reset deletes locally stored entries — that is the price of a genuinely private, server-free design. Protect yourself with the one-click CSV download before any cleanup, OS reinstall or new laptop: re-importing your history later is far easier than reconstructing it from memory.

A plain CSV with one row per entry and labelled column headers — the most portable format there is. Spreadsheets open it directly, every major electronic logbook can map it on import, and a printed copy is perfectly legible to a human reviewer. Nothing proprietary means your cross-country record is never trapped here.