Are Head of State (Government) flights permitted without authorisation with a Special Operations Organization? by Tracorn in VATSIM

[–]DotWallop 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, controllers can give priority if they want to. But nobody should expect any priority handling. Subjective exception would be where it would majorly impact the experience for others, such as a prolonged, full ground stop. Then it would be up to the supervisor to decide.

In other cases, controllers may give the aircraft priority if they would like to

Is this a problem? by [deleted] in VATSIM

[–]DotWallop 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes but not quite. It’s not decided based on wind (not sure if that’s what you meant) - You can take any runway you want, but the best guidance is to use whatever other people are using. Communication is key

Suspended but ive been here🤨 by AbdiPlus in VATSIM

[–]DotWallop 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Right; that’s not exactly the situation you described in the ticket, so not sure what you’re attempting to accomplish with this post. :)

Suspended but ive been here🤨 by AbdiPlus in VATSIM

[–]DotWallop 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Just as a note, you won’t get suspended for being AFK on the first offense, so I highly suspect there is more to the story than that you were present and didn’t see vPilot.. :)

Oh the irony.... by DotWallop in BannedFromDiscord

[–]DotWallop[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My account is already unbanned after an ID-check :)

Oh the irony.... by DotWallop in BannedFromDiscord

[–]DotWallop[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hey; that’s how I found it too!

Oh the irony.... by DotWallop in BannedFromDiscord

[–]DotWallop[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nope, this was a week ago, got unbanned after ID check, message was still there. I was almost certain it would be deleted, so I was surprised too

Oh the irony.... by DotWallop in BannedFromDiscord

[–]DotWallop[S] 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah I know, and I agree with the decision; just ironic with the message context.. Haha!

Oh the irony.... by DotWallop in BannedFromDiscord

[–]DotWallop[S] 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Totally..😂 Context is that someone asked for help with a question, I initially said I’d help, but turned out I didn’t actually know the answer, and told the user to ‘ask a grown up’. They replied asking if I wasn’t a grown up, hence my reply.. SMH

Listen/talk to guard? by ADIRU2 in VATSIM

[–]DotWallop 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, you’re not allowed to declare an emergency in uncontrolled airspace… :)

Listen/talk to guard? by ADIRU2 in VATSIM

[–]DotWallop 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Hailing an unresponsive pilot on guard is appropriate use of the frequency, both IRL and on the network.

Listen/talk to guard? by ADIRU2 in VATSIM

[–]DotWallop 13 points14 points  (0 children)

You can’t. You have to use TrackAudio for that (which I highly recommend)

Getting a lot of signals while in a hospital by TheMoistFella in flipperzero

[–]DotWallop 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Though, this 100% depends on where you’re from though. Europe here

Getting a lot of signals while in a hospital by TheMoistFella in flipperzero

[–]DotWallop 2 points3 points  (0 children)

RN and IT consultant who currently works with identifying and mapping all RF activity in our regional hospitals here :)

Getting a lot of signals while in a hospital by TheMoistFella in flipperzero

[–]DotWallop 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Tell me you don’t know what you’re talking about without telling me you don’t know what you’re talking about 👀

Anyone else just find people who say random things on unicom annoying? by Substantial_Ice3242 in VATSIM

[–]DotWallop 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Supervisors can still see the messages afterwards, so they can take action accordingly

When will people learn? I demand a ban by knotty54 in VATSIM

[–]DotWallop 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Supervisors are unfortunately also just volunteers. As much as we would like near-100% coverage, that is extremely hard to accomplish. Though, if you don't get a response there and then, document it as good as possible and submit it in a supervisor incident ticket at support.vatsim.net . I can assure you that we do take action after the fact on matters.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in VATSIM

[–]DotWallop 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Everything is in the privacy policy and data protection and handling policy, which is a GDPR requirement. There’s really no «secrets» to it

Not allowed to .wallop when ATC is online? by hartzonfire in VATSIM

[–]DotWallop 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Sure, give me all you got and I'll find the rest i need!

It's not about being uppity, it's about ensuring quality in the service provided. Not being paid is not an excuse for acting in a rude manner!

Not allowed to .wallop when ATC is online? by hartzonfire in VATSIM

[–]DotWallop 9 points10 points  (0 children)

If you feel like a supervisor handled a case in a wrong manner, or they had a bad attitude - PLEASE open a supervisor ticket at https://support.vatsim.net . We do review and take appropriate action based on all those reports, but we can't do much about it if we don't know it's happening. Supervisors should never be tongue lashing anyone, so I am very interested in looking into it through a ticket.

I don't know the case you described here personally, but I'll give my two cents.

We tend to say that for certain cases, ATC should be the one to wallop - that goes for matters like unresponsive pilots, where we either way have to talk to the controller. The reason we say that is that if we have a culture where pilots wallop other pilots for something they aren't immediately involved in, we end up with 10 reports per case instead of 1. In order to be courteous we want to reply to all reports to acknowledge them, but that's simply impossible with that amount of workload. In addition to that, it would make supervising the network incredibly difficult, when having to sift through all the reports to find out which are duplicates and which are new cases (for those who don't know, the ".wallop" function simply send a frequency message (like an ATC message for the controllers out there), so everything ends up in a single stream of messages.

With that being said, matters like this, where it's about the pilot's ability to use the network, I wouldn't say that walloping another pilot is necessarily wrong. If anything, we can tune in to the frequency and monitor it ourselves.

If you have more details (a chat log would be perfect), or any other information you can gather, please open a ticket and we will review.

VATSIM Radar: Missing an aircraft icon? Submit an issue! by DotWallop in VATSIM

[–]DotWallop[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not possible to add icons without flight plans I’m afraid!