Pawnee hell

It gets worse...

Where I fly we wanted to tow banners for advertising and had the Feds come
out to see demonstrated ability at banner towing. The Pawnee is registered
Restricted; glider towing, banner towing. The Feds said that didn't matter,
that the aircraft had to be normal category for glider and/or banner towing.
I can't remember at this moment the exact reason why. They said they would
not shut our tow operation down (for now) but would not approve banner
towing in a restricted category aircraft, regardless what the Airworthiness
Certificate said.

Where does that leave us???
-Bob Korves

"Tim Mara" wrote in message
...
messy.......
tim
"Stewart Kissel" wrote in
message ...
Restricted to ag use...and cannot be converted back
to Normal due to the wing extensions....

or at this date that is the latest interpretation...no
ag restricted aircraft can get a 337 for a hook addition




At 14:42 14 October 2004, Tim Mara wrote:
you did not state 'what' restricted category the Pawnee
is certificated to??
if it is 'restricted' to ag use or something other
than glider towing then
you need to, if possible, change this before it can
be 'unrestricted' from
glider towing
tim
'Stewart Kissel' wrote in
message ...
I have posted to the group before about this situation...but
after not quite a year of working the problem....the
Pawnee in question still does not have fed approval
for a tost hook. Needless to say a doctoral thesis
could be generated from the twists and turns....but
the basic facts a

1.) The aircraft is currently in Restricted Category...and
has wing extensions.
2.) The Denver FSDO threw their hands up...so the
plane was taken to Liberal, Kansas with the hope of
more cooperation there.

Does anyone have knowledge of a Restricted Pawnee
that
has been approved for tow hook installation in the
last year? Prior to that it was not nearly as much
brain damage...but apparently a memo generated about
this time last year has produced this result.