Tugging
My! how the world gets complicated when the chair borne pilots get to work. I'm a glider pilot. It was my job to check out all the tug pilots at our club in 1966 when we bought our Tiger Moth (G-AHUE - anyone remember her?) . The rule at that time was that the sum of the tows at each end of the string had to be at least six. As all our prospective tug pilots were new to glider towing I had to go to another club to accumulate the requisite six tows. I have no idea how many out of my 700+ subsequent aerotows were checkouts, but we never had any accidents or emergencies in all the the time I was flying there, so it seems as though another regulation of the gold plated variety has just been created. As most, but not all, of our tug drivers were ex-RAF who had been trained on Tigers I guess we were just lucky. Does this new rule state how many tows the 'Chief Tug pilot' has to have done to qualify?