Paid CFIGs/Tow Pilots in Club Setting

On Oct 14, 7:06 am, wrote:
As for towpilots. Private pilots are allowed to tow, however they
cannot log the time toward a rating and cannot get paid.

yea you got any regulatory guidance to back that one up or is it just
an OWT thats been passed down through the generations?

This waiver was negotiated by SSA and applies only to SSA chapter
clubs. I was club towing on a pvt cert when this came to a head maybe
15 years ago. I decided to get a restricted commercial (no instrument
rating). I would expect that the waiver is published on SSA website
but I don't have time to look now.

During that discussion FAA asserted that logging time was
compensation, hence the restriction on counting time towards new
ratings. It did not prohibit using the time to maintain currency for
existing ratings.

Andy