On Friday, May 23, 2014 10:05:52 PM UTC-4, wrote:
Airline guy here. ~8000 tt, 25yrs of mostly un-logged time in family's J-3, seaplane, 10yrs glider, instr certs, etc.



Would enjoy to tow sometimes. Some of days off are spent where I'm based, but local club memberships have become expensive...

I agree that club fee structures might discourage an airline pilot from occasionally towing on his days off.

My favorite tug pilots are well rested, have towed gliders on all of the good weather days in the last two weeks (at least), have done thousands of tows at our rotor and sink afflicted, short field, tree-lined airport, and have towed lots of different good and poor-performing glider pilots in a variety of glider types.

That's the ideal (rare but possible) and of course I have to be willing to compromise. If I were writing a club policy, I'd try to encourage the journeyman pilots who were happy to tow (even with the CUs popping), and who were available to tow often and on a regular basis.