Glider Towing - Tow Plane Cockpit

Tow Pilot starting day of glider towing with first a warm up hop then a 3K foot tow on a typical Saturday in Piper Pawnee 235HP tow plane. Shot all in cockpit with GoPro Hero2 - which if you know Pawnee's (old crop dusters) you know it's smaller than it looks here!
You can briefly see the interesting Northern fringe clouds of Hurricane Isaac remnants that reached Southern Michigan border. Really interesting conditions rest of day.

[@jeffr100rs]

There is a yellow pawnee with a chev motor at the Benalla (victoria, Australia) gliding field.
No cool down needed after releasing the glider.
Sure sounds different!

[@NzAviator]

Not used to seeing a low power decent profile. Different than what I'm used to. We use 2400 rpm and about 110kts to give us our cooling. Then we have to dive with the rope on the end into a 600m strip from 150ft over the fence.

[@jeffbell9230]

nice looking pawnee lol i built that plane hmmm i think i sold it to ASC in 99 hope its still serving you well!!!

[@vidge123]

hi-
do you have a retractable tow rope? didn't see if you dropped the rope before landing.

[@NzAviator]

Not necessarily required we go into a 600m strip where I tow with a 150ft non retracting rope. We don't tend to drop it unless it is a new tow pilot or we need to.