---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 61.69"
title: "14"
number: "61.69"
heading: "Glider and unpowered ultralight vehicle towing: Experience and training requirements."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/61.69"
---

# §61.69. Glider and unpowered ultralight vehicle towing: Experience and training requirements.

- (a) No person may act as pilot in command for towing a glider or unpowered ultralight vehicle unless that person—
  - (1) Holds a private, commercial or airline transport pilot certificate with a category rating for powered aircraft;
  - (2) Has logged at least 100 hours of pilot-in-command time in the aircraft category, class and type, if required, that the pilot is using to tow a glider or unpowered ultralight vehicle;
  - (3) Has a logbook endorsement from an authorized instructor who certifies that the person has received ground and flight training in gliders or unpowered ultralight vehicles and is proficient in—
    - (i) The techniques and procedures essential to the safe towing of gliders or unpowered ultralight vehicles, including airspeed limitations;
    - (ii) Emergency procedures;
    - (iii) Signals used; and
    - (iv) **Maximum angles of bank.**
  - (4) Except as provided in [paragraph (b)](#b) of this section, has logged at least three flights as the sole manipulator of the controls of an aircraft while towing a glider or unpowered ultralight vehicle, or has simulated towing flight procedures in an aircraft while accompanied by a pilot who meets the requirements of paragraphs [(c)](#c) and [(d)](#d) of this section.
  - (5) Except as provided in [paragraph (b)](#b) of this section, has received a logbook endorsement from the pilot, described in [paragraph (a)(4)](#a-4) of this section, certifying that the person has accomplished at least 3 flights in an aircraft while towing a glider or unpowered ultralight vehicle, or while simulating towing flight procedures; and
  - (6) **Within 24 calendar months before the flight has—**
    - (i) Made at least three actual or simulated tows of a glider or unpowered ultralight vehicle while accompanied by a qualified pilot who meets the requirements of this section; or
    - (ii) Made at least three flights as pilot in command of a glider or unpowered ultralight vehicle towed by an aircraft.
- (b) Any person who, before May 17, 1967, has made and logged 10 or more flights as pilot in command of an aircraft towing a glider or unpowered ultralight vehicle in accordance with a certificate of waiver need not comply with paragraphs [(a)(4)](#a-4) and [(a)(5)](#a-5) of this section.
- (c) The pilot, described in [paragraph (a)(4)](#a-4) of this section, who endorses the logbook of a person seeking towing privileges must have—
  - (1) Met the requirements of this section prior to endorsing the logbook of the person seeking towing privileges; and
  - (2) Logged at least 10 flights as pilot in command of an aircraft while towing a glider or unpowered ultralight vehicle.
- (d) If the pilot described in [paragraph (a)(4)](#a-4) of this section holds only a private pilot certificate, then that pilot must have—
  - (1) Logged at least 100 hours of pilot-in-command time in airplanes, or 200 hours of pilot-in-command time in a combination of powered and other-than-powered aircraft; and
  - (2) Performed and logged at least three flights within the 12 calendar months preceding the month that pilot accompanies or endorses the logbook of a person seeking towing privileges—
    - (i) In an aircraft while towing a glider or unpowered ultralight vehicle accompanied by another pilot who meets the requirements of this section; or
    - (ii) **As pilot in command of a glider or unpowered ultralight vehicle being towed by another aircraft.**

## Notes

### Amendments

[Docket FAA-2001-11133, 69 FR 44866, July 27, 2004, as amended by Amdt. 61-124, 74 FR 42555, Aug. 21, 2009]

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(f), 40113, 44701-44703, 44707, 44709-44711, 44729, 44903, 45102-45103, 45301-45302.

### Source

Source: Docket 25910, 62 FR 16298, Apr. 4, 1997, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[Docket FAA-2001-11133, 69 FR 44866, July 27, 2004, as amended by Amdt. 61-124, 74 FR 42555, Aug. 21, 2009]