Steven Cullen Posted October 9, 2011 at 11:34 PM Posted October 9, 2011 at 11:34 PM At the last BoG quarterly meeting, (24.09.2011), a discussion and subsequent vote to amend the CoC rule B8 was held, the motion p[Mod - Happy Thoughts]ing with 10 votes for, and 1 against. This amendment aims to clarify the declaration of in-flight emergencies. The rule now states: "Pilots are permitted to declare in-flight emergencies only when under positive air traffic control. If there is no air traffic controller providing services to the pilot and surrounding traffic, declaring an in-flight emergency is not permitted. If, for any reason, air traffic control requests the pilot to terminate the emergency, then the pilot must do so IMMEDIATELY or log off of VATSIM. Pilots are not permitted to simulate, in any manner, an unlawful act while logged onto the VATSIM.net network including, but not limited to, declaring a hijack by statement utilizing either voice or text or by entering a transponder code of 7500." The revised Code of Conduct docomeent can be read here, and the download will be available here shortly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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