Letter to the FAA

Pls also find one for an Aviat Husky and someone who is willing to sign off on the installation at the FAA without causing the airplane to be downed in the weeks and months of waiting for the paperwork to be processed. Or just ask Husky to quit making available their type certificate approved tow hook and release installation so we can use 4313 to produce our own.

Thanks

Originally Posted by

Pls also find one for an Aviat Husky and someone who is willing to sign off on the installation at the FAA without causing the airplane to be downed in the weeks and months of waiting for the paperwork to be processed. Or just ask Husky to quit making available their type certificate approved tow hook and release installation so we can use 4313 to produce our own.

Thanks

Correct me if I'm wrong but did I not see a Husky with a Tost hook at the Seniors?

Walt

At 20:21 30 June 2017, wrote:
Pls also find one for an Aviat Husky and someone who is willing to
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on the installation at the FAA without causing the airplane to be
downed
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n the weeks and months of waiting for the paperwork to be
processed. Or
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ook and release installation so we can use 4313 to produce our own.

Thanks

Tost offer their EASA approved retractor winch for a variety of aircraft
including the Husky A1, A1-A, and A1-B. They also offer the tow
release support alone for some aircraft including A1/A1-A and the A1-B.
It is an approved part of the EASA kit, not certified in itself. It may
be
worth contacting Tost for clarification.

Tost don't offer a kit for the L-19, possibly the USA is the only place
where this ex-military aircraft is used as a tug.

Originally Posted by

Your Momma ever tell you that you can catch more flies with honey? Why not do something pro-safety? A single simple starter task; find and share the Tost/337 info for L-19s. If the cost is @ $2,500 I'm confidant my club would raise that voluntarily in a week. But before we pass the hat it would make sense to know who to send the money to. Or if it is even possible to convert. Your refusal to take a single meaningful step towards safety prove your campaign is about vengeance against those dirty Elmira Death Hook operators that scared you and your safety claims are a cover story. The moral high ground is not yours Walt. Send your stupid letter, I'm confidant you lack the reasoning and persuasiveness to get a response from the FAA.
Yes, the FAA may totally ignore my response, but then again perhaps a
few glider operations will see the validity of my point and make a life
saving change. For the record an entire country has addressed this
problem and long ago mandated the changes I am suggesting here. I do
have my supporters.

Have a great day,

Walt



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Walt Connelly

Gregg, I am quite confident that you are the kind of guy who starts a fight and then runs. Glad you are "confidant." I am very confident. I am trying to approach this situation while doing as little to inhibit the soaring world as possible. Comments and attitudes such as yours make me want to say the hell with it, send the letter, be as scathing as possible. I can't do that, it is inconsistent with who I am. I still have many friends in the soaring community and wish not to get in the way of their enjoyment of soaring.

I have been told by A&Ps that there is very little difficulty in getting permission to invert the Schweizer hook (There is an STC available for the Pawnee) nor is there great difficulty in repositioning the release handle to a position allowing the tow pilot instant access. These will be my two foremost recommendations to the FAA. For those facilities towing with a Schweizer hook and pulling gliders with a maximum gross weight greater than 1500 lbs, they are in violation of the manufacturers recommendations based on the 1200 lb tow rope limitation.

Have a great day

How easy is it to flip the hook on towplanes other than a Pawnee? Logbook entry? 337? STC? Lots of people are going to need to know after the FAA takes action on your litter.
Gregg, I am quite confident that you are the kind of guy who starts a
fight and then runs. Glad you are "confidant." I am very confident. I
am trying to approach this situation while doing as little to inhibit
the soaring world as possible. Comments and attitudes such as yours
make me want to say the hell with it, send the letter, be as scathing as
possible. I can't do that, it is inconsistent with who I am. I still
have many friends in the soaring community and wish not to get in the
way of their enjoyment of soaring.

I have been told by A&Ps that there is very little difficulty in getting
permission to invert the Schweizer hook (There is an STC available for
the Pawnee) nor is there great difficulty in repositioning the release
handle to a position allowing the tow pilot instant access. These will
be my two foremost recommendations to the FAA. For those facilities
towing with a Schweizer hook and pulling gliders with a maximum gross
weight greater than 1500 lbs, they are in violation of the manufacturers
recommendations based on the 1200 lb tow rope limitation.

Have a great day




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Walt Connelly