Special Operations Introduction

IVAO Rules and Regulations

10. - Special Operations Rules and Regulations (Introduction)

10.1 - Welcome to the Introduction to IVAO Special Operations (SO) Rules and Regulations.
The SO department has been established to rule and regulate the use of the IVAO network for non civil aviation. This includes, but is not limited to, all police, search and resque, military and paramilitary activities.

10.2 - Single individuals flying a police, resque or military aircraft complying with the ICAO-rules for the normal civil procedures are not performing "Special Operations" and are therefore free to do as they like as long as they obey the standard IVAO User Rules and Regulations.

10.3 - As soon as training, exercise or other operations involve more people at once and/or other than the normal civil procedures, they have to comply with the SO rules and regulations which can be found on the webpages of the Special Operation Department. These kind of operations include, formation flights, air to air refuelling flights, search and resque missions, air carrier take off and landing practices, low level flights, awacs simulations and any other operation proposed to and approved by IVAO-HQ.

10.4 - Before you start any kind of special operations we want to draw your attention to this quote from the IVAO Mission Statement:

While simulation real world aviation "as real as it gets" we will avoid, at any price, to simulate or become involved in real world ethnical-, political- and religious conflicts and problems. We also will not allow the simulation of any form of agression or war. IVAO is an entertaining and educational network where every world-citizen, without any exception, is welcome to join the fun.

10.5 - In order to meet the contents of this quote, all air-to-air and air-to-ground excercises and attacks are prohibited on the IVAO network. Our network is established for flight- an ATC simulation, not for war simulation. Fans of wargames are served well on various other places on the Internet.