On Sunday, August 26, 2018 at 9:15:26 AM UTC-4, wrote:
Our Club is reworking towing height fees. We are based south of Denver (elevation 7,000' msl). Normal tow heights are to about 9,000-10,000' msl. We have new members who now are asking for tows to 14,000' msl. This is causing up to 45-minute waits for the next tow. Normally, we get about four or five tows per hours, but a high altitude tow drops us to two tows per hour.

How high does your club allow for tows?


Raul Boerner

For training we use 2500 AGL for early flights for more air work time and 2000 for the balance, other than pattern or special circumstance tows.
For soaring pilots( assuming a soaring day), we expect 2000 feet. That said, our tow pilots will center lift they find and we expect experienced pilots to get off when established in lift so we can bring the next person to the same thermal.
We log to the nearest 500 feet. We do not expect the book keeper to do extra work beyond what results from those logs.
If a pilot does not report or log his or her tow height, they can expect a bill for 5000 feet. We get very few repeat offenders.
Last Friday I did 18 tows in 2:15. One was 2500, 7 were 1500, balance 2000 ft. All the low guys stuck.
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