Vaughn wrote:
"Mark James Boyd" wrote in message
news:40411bd3$1@darkstar...
As a side note, 61.113(g) seems to say a PPL is excepted from
restrictions on compensation for glider towing. Hmmm...hadn't seen
that before. Interesting...
61.113(g) says nothing about compensation. That said, you are not the
only one confused on that point and it is covered in the part 61 FAQ
http://www.soaringsafety.org/FAQ_Glider.doc. See below:
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QUESTION: I have reviewed your question in which you asked
whether a private pilot may receive compensation while towing gliders, in
accordance with the new §61.113(g).
ANSWER: The answer is no, a private pilot may not receive
compensation for towing a glider.
The intent, and the wording of the new §61.113(g), was to permit a private
pilot who meets the requirements of §61.69 of this part to “. . . act as
pilot in command of an aircraft towing a glider” for the purpose of logging
pilot in command (PIC) time. The new rule was never intended to conflict
with the FAA’s long standing legal interpretations and policies on
compensation for private pilots. And the wording of the new §61.113(g) only
addresses the issue that permits a private pilot to “. . . act as pilot in
command of an aircraft towing a glider” for the purpose of permitting a
private pilot to log pilot in command time. As you recall, the wording of
the old §61.69 permitted a private pilot to act as a PIC but was moot on
logging the time. The new §61.113(g) was issued to correct it.
However, we agree the wording of the new §61.113(a) may be confusing. In
the next go-around on correcting some of the wording mistakes, we have
recorded it as a candidate for correction to conform the intent and the
wording of §61.113(g).
Great catch, Vaughn. The wording DEFINITELY doesn't match the
interpretation. The standards guys really mucked this one up.
The whole section talks about the exceptions of how PPLs
can recieve compensation, except section (G), which is
really just about PIC? I'll tell you, if I was a PPL and
got violated for towing and getting paid, I'd run this laundry up a big
flagpole with the dirty stain AND the author's name on it. ;O
I read a bit more about this, and it seems all this started when a
few clubs were using PPLs to tow gliders. There was some argument
about whether building flight time alone was considered
compensation. So some clubs just had those pilots simply not
log any of the time (so there was "no" benefit). This ran afoul
because these pilots then couldn't log the time to keep tow
currency. So the FAA came back that there should be no other compensation,
except that PIC flight time could be logged by a PPL and that would be
fine.
How this got written as the wording we now find, I have NO idea...
It seems clearer to simply add at the end of (G) ...but may receive no
other compensation or hire...
How hard would that be?
Does anyone else have a better, firsthand account of how this developed?
The Palouse Soaring Society was mentioned in a 1978 and 1990 documents...
Any glider regulation historians out there?
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Mark Boyd