The time’s still ticking on the question: What does ‘cross-country time’ mean for the purpose of meeting the aeronautical experience requirements for a sport pilot certificate with powered parachute privileges?
It couldn’t be
that hard to interpret the oh-so-simple FAR definition I quoted.
By the way, your Australian regulations have really complicated one (2(10)) that says:
A reference in these regulations to height shall be read as a reference to:
(a) the vertical distance of a level or a point, or if an object is specified, that object considered as a point, measured from the datum specified in connection with the reference, or where no datum is specified, measured from the ground or water;