Pawnee TOST Hook Installation FAA Paperwork

On Saturday, November 9, 2019 at 8:55:51 AM UTC-5, Charles Longley wrote:
I guess the only real advantage of having a standard airworthiness certificate is you could do what you want with the airplane when you’re not towing. Take a restricted Pawnee into Johnson Creek and hang out with the Super Cub guys. FAA might take a dim view.

The FAA could care less about taking a restricted class plane into Johnson Creek. Many other types of planes come to the fly-in other than super cubs. From my experiences most all super cub fliers would love to fly the Pawnee..

Yeah so I guess you make my point. It’s advantageous to have a Pawnee with a standard airworthiness certificate as opposed to restricted. Who knows what the FAA would do. I have a bunch of experience in Super Cubs and Pawnees by the way. The Pawnee is far easier to fly and has that awesome O540! I am dreaming about how to stuff it into a Super Cub.

Tim:
Do you need paperwork for the Tost reel system? Or just the Tost hook?
I think I may have it for the reel.
Roy

Roy,
We are good now. Have what we need and towed this weekend with our new Pawnee.

Related to this topic: We have learned from bad experience that one must not "split" any part of a conversion to towing between 2 different FSDOs. The FAA does not always function as a unified agency and in our case the FSDO where the seller was located converted the certificate from "restricted - agriculture" to "restricted- glider/banner tow." BUT the FSDO where we (the buyer) were located refused the paperwork to install the tow hook. They actually claimed that the first FSDO acted improperly in converting the certificate. Essentially, one FAA office was claiming that another FAA office screwed up. It took me (a lawyer and then club president) 8 months to solve that problem. So, absent a really good reason, I think converting a certificate from Restricted to Standard is just asking for trouble.
ROY

Related to this topic: We have learned from bad experience that one must not "split" any part of a conversion to towing between 2 different FSDOs.

As one of my FSDO contacts often said, "The FAA has about 92 FSDOs. Each one independently owned and operated."