Thanks Andreas. So VATSIM Tech needs to look into the Australian situation. Maybe David @1487670 could open a ticket?
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And the South Pole.
Adding some more characters because this [silly] forum software requires at least 20 characters to post 
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Maybe you should talk to someone in the BoG about that! 
BoG members do not participate here, what a shame 
I won’t be opening a ticket because 95% of Australia is uncontrolled below FL125 and it’s useful to hear pilots more than 30nm away. 
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Here i was at LFPG airport , 7 on the ground and two arrived. All seven departed and the two that arrived, absolutely NOBODY used voice or text on unicom 122.80 and all were on 122.80
Amazing.
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In this case you make your calls, possibly ask them if they are monitoring, and then you depart. Pilots who do not announce their intentions do “exist” to me.
They both make sense, but really, i should abort landing at minimums because of a individual ignoring my notifications, or i should taxi on the grass because the other aircraft decides to ignore that the taxiway is one direction only, and so on and so on. I can see this is only going to get worse.
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122.800 is next best thing to heaven… 
my new favorite thing is checking afv map and seeing how many people actually have 122.8 tuned but still do not use it. suprisingly common.
either people do not know they are required, or are willingly ignoring the requirement.
am i to understand .wallop is the correct remedy? because i am about to become a pest to the sups with it if so.
Yes, go for it, tiger!
you’re supposed to it if it affects you, do no try to become the police…
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well well well
Indeed. The potential for further erosion of VATSIM’s UNICOM policy and practice is immense… in the USofA. Meanwhile, it may be that most of the world might carry on regardless. Global, schmobal…
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Fixed.
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Have you fixed the South Pole or the character limitation for the forum?
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Some people fly by their own made-up rules or logic.
Yeah, same here. I don’t alter my ops around airports if someone isn’t paying attention. Nobody is going to die if we both land on the same runway at the same time. If I do my part like I’m supposed to, and the other person doesn’t, that’s their problem, not mine. I’m not going around or aborting a takeoff because someone is just doing their thing in their own little world…LOL.
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Have the rules changed? Use to be pilots are required to “monitor” unicom. There was no requirement to transmit or announce intentions.
B5 Pilots flying through uncontrolled airspace shall monitor VHF radio frequency 122.800 or other designated “UNICOM” frequency until they come under air traffic control coverage. Where another pilot may benefit, a pilot shall transmit their intentions on the designated unicom frequency.
The CoC is quite clear that you have to transmit your intentions whenever someone else could benefit from it (which is technically always because you have no way of knowing what others are doing unless they communicate their intentions and you also don’t know if there’s someone in your vicinity because all map tools have some sort of delay and only update once every so often).
And the CoC companion document goes even further into depth on what you are expected to do on unicom.
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