Glider Tow Pilot Log
Specialised flight log for tow pilots — tows performed and more, with live totals and CSV export.
Tow pilots need a 61.69 endorsement plus recent experience: three actual or simulated tows within the preceding 12 months (when towing gliders), and clubs audit tow counts.
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⚠️ Not for operational decisions. This is a record-keeping and planning aid only — not certified avionics, not a source of regulatory truth. Always verify against official sources (FAA/EASA/DGCA) and your operator's approved documents before flying.
Free glider tow pilot log built for tow pilots: per-flight records of tows performed, release altitudes and glider types, rolling 12-month activity, and CSV exports for operators, insurers and waiver paperwork.
About Glider Tow Pilot Log
Tow pilots need a 61.69 endorsement plus recent experience: three actual or simulated tows within the preceding 12 months (when towing gliders), and clubs audit tow counts. A generic logbook flattens this work into hours; what tow pilots actually need on file is tows performed, release altitudes and glider types — the operation-specific details that recency rules, waivers, clubs and underwriters ask about. Each entry here captures those alongside time, the tiles maintain lifetime and rolling 12-month activity (the window most specialty recency runs on), and the export produces the record an operator or FSDO can audit in one pass. The discipline costs thirty seconds per flight and pays out the first time someone official asks.
How to use Glider Tow Pilot Log
- 1Log each flight with its operation-specific details and event counts.
- 2Watch lifetime and 12-month tiles maintain your currency story.
- 3Export the CSV for duty rosters, renewals and insurance questions.
Why use Glider Tow Pilot Log?
- ✓Operation-specific fields: tows performed, release altitudes and glider types
- ✓Rolling 12-month activity — the window specialty recency uses
- ✓Lifetime event counts beside hour totals
- ✓Audit-ready CSV for operators, clubs, insurers and waivers
- ✓Browser-private, free, no account
Frequently asked questions
What recency does a glider tow pilot need?+
Under 61.69, after initial qualification you need — within the preceding 12 months — at least three actual or simulated glider tows, or three flights as PIC of a glider towed by aircraft. Club duty rosters and insurance both lean on documented tow counts, so a per-tow record with release altitude and glider type keeps your eligibility provable on demand.
How is this different from my main logbook?+
Your master logbook stays the legal record; this is the specialty ledger where tows performed get structured columns instead of remarks-field burial. Specialty operations are audited on specialty data — counts, configurations and conditions — and pulling those out of years of mixed entries is exactly the chore this single-purpose log eliminates.
What totals matter most in this kind of flying?+
Event counts over hours: tow pilots are evaluated on documented operations — the 12-month rolling figure this tool headlines — more than on accumulated time. Insurers and operators read recency as competence in specialty work, so a current 12-month number with per-event detail behind it is the strongest record you can present.
Is this tool private — who can see my entries?+
Only you. Entries live in your browser's local storage and never leave your device, so there is no account, no cloud sync and no one else with access. Because the data is device-local, remember to export a CSV backup before clearing browser data or switching computers.
How do I back up or print these records?+
Use the Export CSV button below the table: it downloads your full operations record as a spreadsheet-ready file. From there you can print a clean copy, archive it with your training folder, or import it into any electronic logbook program. Exporting monthly is a good habit since the working data lives only in your browser.
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