Hi.

Has there been any discussion on the way emergencies/non-normal situations are going to be handled? What I mean more specifically is, in XPlane, there is a feature to induce random failures. Will pilots and controllers be rewarded for dealing with these or will it be encouraged as long as it doesn't get in the way of anyone and will the automated traffic services have functions built in to deal with emergencies? Will 121.5 be used as an open frequency?

Any replies are greatly appreciated as always.

 

Jay

@Jay Williams

Yes, there is forum thread about it:

There will be no rewards given for pilots that deal with emergencies, thus they are not "encouraged".

121.5 will be used mainly to get ahold of aircraft that have not checked in on a particular ATC frequency.

Not encouraged verse not allowed.  I’m all for not encouraged but if it happens then we will deal with it. Just like in real life emergencies are not encouraged but sometimes they do happen so not allowed definitely takes away from the realism and immersion.

The problem I see with emergencies is the people having them are making others alter their simming to facilitate others.

Might be interesting to use some kind of Emergency Token System distributed via chance. A "lottery" is a fair way of distributing things that have a limited quantity (and emergencies should probably be limited due to the unfair nature / impact on other aircraft."

It could work something like this:

• Every member has a low chance to receive an emergency token over time (maybe a chance per flight hour or something?)
• There are different types of emergency tokens that can be received, i.e. engine failure, medical emergency, loss of GPS, etc
• Members can opt-in to use an emergency token on a flight when they want to simulate that emergency type
• ATC is allowed to give emergency priority like the real world, since the tokens are evenly distributed.
• If needed ATC could have the ability to allow or disallow emergency token use as they wish.

Looks like this is a duplicate topic. Moving over to the other thread.

Yes it is, I am gonna lock it. All responses can be made in the other topic (reference above).