WestWind Airlines Rules & Regulations

§1 Logging of Pilot-in-Command Flight Time

  1. Aircraft Category Rating.
    1. Pilots may only log hours in a category of aircraft at or below the category for which the pilot holds a rating.
    2. Exception. A pilot may log hours in an aircraft which is in a category for which he/she is training to take a check ride provided that he/she has accumulated the required number of hours to be promoted to the next category.
    3. Exception. WestWind Test Pilots may log hours flown in any category of aircraft when the flight is conducted with the approval of the Senior Test Pilot or the Chief Pilot.
  2. Payware Aircraft.
    1. In order to have sufficient quality control over WestWind's livery, textures for payware aircraft will only be made available if a painter at WestWind owns the payware aircraft in question and the aircraft publisher's policies allow for third party repaints.
  3. Aircraft Type.
    1. Pilots may log hours only in specific makes and models of aircraft listed in the WestWind fleet. The WestWind Fleet consists of those aircraft types (makes and models) currently available for download in WestWind's hangars.
      1. Pilots may log time in a payware aircraft that does not have WestWind textures provided that a freeware aircraft of the same make and model is currently available in a WestWind hangar. For example you may log time in a payware MD-11 since a freeware MD-11 is available in a WestWind hangar.
    2. Pilots may log hours only in makes and models of aircraft appropriate to the type of mission —
      1. Passenger flights will use aircraft from the WestWind Passenger Fleet capable of operating safely at the origin and destination airports.
      2. Cargo flights will use aircraft from the WestWind Cargo Fleet capable of operating safely at the origin and destination airports.
      3. Executive charter flights will use one of the specific makes and models of aircraft from the Executive Charter Fleet listed in the charter description.
      4. Cargo charter flights will use one of the specific makes and models of aircraft from the WestWind Cargo Fleet listed in the charter description.
      5. Aircraft in the WestWind Historical Fleet are primarily used for charter flights. The Historical aircraft flown should be appropriate for the intent of the charter and logistics (aircraft range, airport compatibility, etc.) should be considered. Charters may follow current passenger or cargo routes.
      6. Training flights may use any aircraft from the WestWind Passenger, Cargo, or Executive Charter fleet, subject to the restrictions of paragraph (a). Senior Captains and above may log hours for training flights in aircraft from the WestWind Historical Fleet.
      7. WestWind Test Pilots may log hours flown in any type of aircraft not part of the WestWind Fleet when the flight is conducted with the approval of the Senior Test Pilot or the Chief Pilot.
  4. Allowable Operations. Pilots may only log hours for the following types of operations —
    1. Passenger flights conducted for WestWind Airlines Hub Operations Division.
    2. Cargo flights conducted for WestWind Airlines Cargo Operations Division.
    3. Passenger charter flights conducted for WestWind Airlines Executive Charters Division.
    4. Cargo charters conducted for WestWind Airlines Cargo Operations Division.
    5. Training flights for the purpose of recurrent training or type certification for the next higher rating, subject to the restrictions of paragraph (a).
    6. Test flights conducted by WestWind Test Pilots with the approval of the Senior Test Pilot or the Chief Pilot.
    7. Special operations assigned by airline managers, for example, special charters, maintentance test flights, or repositioning flights.
    8. Flights by airline management conducted for the purpose of performing their management duties.
  5. Simulation Speeds
    1. Hours flown at other than normal simulation speeds (1x) may only be logged as the actual real-time hours flown.
      1. Clarification. If you spend 1 hour flying a 2x Simulation Speed, you may log 1 hour only.
      2. Clarification. If you run a simulation at 1/4 speed, you may NOT log 4x the normal flight hours.
  6. Pausing in flight. Flights may be paused in flight for as long as the pilot desires. The time while the flight is paused may not be logged.
  7. Unattended Flights. Pilots may only log hours spent in direct attendance of a flight, to include the monitoring of an aircraft flying on auto-pilot. Extended periods of time spent away from a running simulation (unattended flight) shall not be counted as loggable time.
    1. Exceptions. Short breaks of a reasonable duration away from a running simulation shall not be considered unattended flight.

§2 Requirements for Hub Management Positions

  1. Assistant Hub Managers

    In order to be eligible to hold the position of Assistant Hub Manager, pilots must —

    1. Maintain active pilot status.
    2. Have a pilot rating of at least Category II.
    3. Be at least 13 years of age. This requirement may be waived at the discretion of the Executive Committee.
  2. Hub Managers

    In order to be eligible to hold the position of Hub Manager, pilots must —

    1. Maintain active pilot status.
    2. Have a pilot rating of at least Category III.
    3. Be at least 16 years of age. This requirement may be waived at the discretion of the Executive Committee.

§3 Flight operations involving relief flights in response to real world disasters

  1. Disaster relief involving the movement of relief supplies and heavy equipment shall be conducted under the direction of the Cargo Operations Division.  Relief flights should be flown utilizing Cargo Charter C044.
  2. The Vice President - Cargo of each specific region shall be the contact person for disasters occurring within their respective region.  As such the VP will provide the specifics of airports to operate out of, any restrictions on operations (e.g. daytime only), the duration of the operation, etc. on WestWind's forum in the Cargo Operations area.
  3. WestWind VA will not be involved in the actual distribution of supplies beyond the designated entry point(s) to the disaster area.  Those aspects of disaster relief are almost always handled by either a nation's own military, an NGO or the United Nations.
  4. Disaster relief shall not become the basis for a company sponsored "event."  Relief operations should be kept low key and on an individual level, letting each pilot make their own decision about how involved they want to be.  Note, this does not prohibit pilots from participating in on-line flying events involving the disaster region that are organized by outside entities such as VATSIM.