Originally Posted by BeachBum82

Completely agree with JohnBurke. My family has operated a medium sized banner towing operation on the east coast for over 15 years. We have had an excellent safety record, something I am very proud of. No blown jugs, beach or water landings, or stall spins. We spend a LOT of time training, after all most of our guys and girls are very low time. It's as dangerous as you want to make it, like he said, complacency will be what kills you. As for what the other guy said about landing with the sign....some of that has merit some not. Depends on the surface you land on. I do teach the dive method, but we also land on a concrete runway. On pavement the sign will slide, you wouldn't even know it's back there. I know because I've done it maybe 5 times in 15 years. On grass....yeah I've seen it pull a plane down when the lead pole digs if it's really soft. Point being it doesn't happen often, and if properly trained it's not really an issue. My background.....I've flown 135, 91k, 121, current 121 Capt. I can also account for every one of our former pilots, each one is either flying corporate or airline, or working their way up some place in between. Point being it's not worthless time. We've never had a person who didn't want to move on to bigger and better things be held back due to towing. In fact I'd say 90% of our former pilots do not have CFI. I hear it all the time from other pilots at my airline about how dangerous it is, maybe one out of 10 actually has done it.

For anyone interested, as I posted on another topic. I have two possibly three seats open for this season. It's not too late. We are in North Carolina and our season doesn't really get cranking to the first or second week of June. PM me if interested.

Originally Posted by Soren

It’s 2021 and I’m now seeing your post and wonder if there is any opening for the 2022 season