Thread: Ferry Permit?
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Old March 7th 04, 05:26 PM
goneill
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I believe that in NZ an aircraft is allowed to be flown to a place of
repair or maintenance even when when the paperwork has expired.
gary
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No, I have not personal experience with that. But I do know of a 175 that

was
air towed from one airport to another. All done with the FAA's blessing.

The paper work and testing is a great story. Took a long time. Mere

mortals
don't have that kind of patience and drive.

In article ,
(Mackfly) wrote:
Tried to get a ferry permit from the local FSDO so we could tow a Blanik

that
was one week out of annual to another airport for it's inspection. They

said
they could not issure it for safety reasons! I had done it once with my
1-23H15 a few years ago. The "reason" given was because of the risk

placed on
the tow pilot. The addition of risk to another person. I asked the

fellow if
they ever issued one to "crewed" aircraft to which he said "yes." I

mentioned
that the tow plane and the sailplane could release from each other and

asked if
a required "crew" member could do that. He said he had even called the

next
level up, at KC. Not at all sure he made the call. All in all it smacks

of
CYA when you are in over your head at your job. We used to have a guy

come and
do/sign off the inspection in a cold dark hangar at the field. What we

were
trying to do was get the glider to a lighted, heated hangar where it

would get
a "better" inspection. Thanks to the FAA's wisdom we did the inspection

in a
cold, dark hangar again. Anyone ever "ferry" a sailplane? Yes we have

a
trailer. We are only willing to be laughed at by glass ship owners as we
hammer a Blanic together at Salida or Boulder. Any thoughts?

Mac