> > >All of the above can be very adequately covered by Club procedures. >
Of course. It doesn't matter if Yeager himself rolls in for a fly, the answer will be, look I'm sorry Chuck but before you can fly any of these club aircraft you have to be a member of the club (or it's affiliates or whatever the club decides, it's their aircraft). The RPL in no way dilutes the power of the club to control it's assets, in the same way that a PPL holder could no more take an Aero clubs plane up for a spin (oops you don't do that to GA planes do you ;-) without the express permission of the club or one of it's representatives. To do so is stealing and would be dealt with under common law. Operational consideration such as weather, runway etc will require each RPL holder and the person providing the launch to use their judgement. In the case of aerotow the tug pilot can just say no. I've been on a strip where the cross wind was too strong for the tug (not the glider though) and the tug pilot just said no. (The alternative of stealing the tug didn't seem like a bright idea so we went to the pub instead ;-) P. -- * You are subscribed to the aus-soaring mailing list. * To Unsubscribe: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * with "unsubscribe aus-soaring" in the body of the message * or with "help" in the body of the message for more information.
