Our club has about 70 members, 9 CFIGs, 8 or so towpilots. The OPS officer
publishes a schedule for a quarter. The duty crew consists of a Duty
Officer and 2 assistants. Duty Officer must be a rated glider pilot, ADOs
are students or the new rated pilots. Tow duty is assigned (1 per day). If
it gets busy another tow pilot will usually relieve the primary for a break
or crank up the second tow plane to get things moving. Instructors do not
stand duty. There is usually at least one available all the time.


"DNewill" wrote in message
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Our club is considering changing the way we schedule the ground and flight
support crews ( tow, instructors, recorder, crew chief, assistant, etc.)
Would like to find out how your club schedules the volunteers who make it
work.
Some clubs have only the Director of Ops, Tow Pilot and IP scheduled --
all others are volunteers/day flyers. Others have every position scheduled
every weekend day. Finally some do it all by a reservation system - with
those who volunteer a specific number of hours paying less in monthly dues
than the those who do not volunteer.

I would like to gather some details on this before we change our system.

While answers from European and UK clubs are appreciated - I am focused on
USA clubs - Thanks!