Originally Posted by
Genghis the Engineer
The "earlier than thou" position
I was amused by the "better products available" notion. Mine produces all the reports I need and, if I need a new one, I just write a short program to produce it.
The cross country thing is interesting. In USA there is more than one definition of cross country. Last number I needed to know was requirements for ATP. FAA doesn't think my nearly 100,000 km of closed course cross country in gliders is qualifying. However, the times I "landed out" on a contest flight did count as long as the distance from the takeoff point was sufficient. Write the code, produce the report, and found I did have have enough qualifying cross country for ATP (didn't bother sitting the exams though as I didn't need another trophy rating)
There may be commercial program that offer this flexibility but I doubt I'd "upgrade". DOS rocks!