Regulations

Italiani Volanti is an Italian flight simulation community founded in 2010: an informal group of enthusiasts, with no legal personality and not for profit. These rules apply in all the group's spaces: the Discord server, the Virtual Airline (with IVACARS and Multiplayer IV), the website, the apps, the social media pages and in-person meetups. By taking part, you accept them.

Last updated: 17 October 2026

Part 1. The community

1. How the group works

1.1. Italiani Volanti is not for profit and has no commercial interests. Taking part is free.

1.2. The group is coordinated by the staff: members of the community who organise events and tours, moderate the Discord server and look after the website and the Virtual Airline. They do so on a voluntary basis, without pay.

1.3. Staff members are chosen by the group's president, after consulting the staff.

1.4. The group is based on collaboration: anyone can propose ideas and activities to the staff, who decide.

1.5. The group's expenses (servers, services, materials) are covered by members' voluntary donations and by any income from advertising on the website. Nobody is required to donate. Donations are managed by the group's president and used only for the group's expenses.

1.6. For sweatshirts, caps and other items with the group's logo, a contribution towards production and shipping costs is requested. These contributions do not constitute consideration for civil-law or tax purposes.

2. Taking part

2.1. To be part of the community, just join the Discord server: https://discord.gg/KGnJNHf.

2.2. To log your flights, take part in events and tours and follow the career, you need to join the Virtual Airline (Part 2). You can be part of the community without joining the Virtual Airline.

3. Respect

3.1. Treat everyone with respect: members, staff, newcomers and visitors. Disagreeing is fine, as long as it is polite.

3.2. The following are not allowed, in public or in private:

• insults, offensive remarks, provocation and hostile behaviour towards people, companies, religions or institutions;
• discrimination based on origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, political opinion or social status;
• violent, pornographic or illegal content, and incitement to violence;
• spam and advertising not authorised by the staff;
• copyrighted material shared without permission, for example copied payware add-ons;
• harmful code or files, and attempts to damage or break into the website, the Virtual Airline or the group's servers;
• messages meant only to harm the group, its spaces or its services.

3.3. The most serious behaviour leads to immediate removal and, where required by law, to a report to the authorities.

4. Discord

4.1. On the server, use your Pilot ID followed by your name (for example IV5025 Mario). If you have not joined the Virtual Airline, use a name that lets others recognise you.

4.2. When you join a voice channel, say hello to those present. Do not record or share conversations without the consent of the people speaking.

4.3. In the channels of flights in progress, leave room for those who are flying.

4.4. For Virtual Airline group flights, pilots stay in the same voice channel: you can keep your microphone off, but do not mute the audio.

4.5. The staff can move, mute or remove from a channel anyone who causes disruption.

5. Events and in-person meetups

5.1. Official events are organised by the staff. If you want to propose one, talk to the staff on Discord at least 7 days in advance, with title, routes, departure and arrival airports, date and time. The staff may change the proposal or decline it.

5.2. Anyone can organise a flight with others in a personal capacity, but without presenting it as an official Italiani Volanti event.

5.3. At national meetings, fairs and other in-person meetups, everyone takes part in a personal capacity and under their own responsibility. The same rules of respect apply.

5.4. Photos from meetups are published only with the consent of the people in them. Anyone who does not want to appear says so, and the photo is not published, or is published with the face blurred.

6. Content and contributions

6.1. Anyone who creates material for the group (liveries, sceneries, guides, videos, graphics) makes it available free of charge. The group may continue to use and publish it even if the author leaves the group, crediting them by name where possible.

6.2. Texts, images, logos and software of the website, the Virtual Airline and the apps (including IVACARS) belong to Italiani Volanti or to their respective authors: they may not be copied or reused without permission.

7. Other groups and other virtual airlines

7.1. You may be part of other groups and other virtual airlines, while being fair to everyone.

7.2. Staff members do not take on similar roles in groups with the same aims without first discussing it with the rest of the staff.

8. Measures

8.1. If a rule is not respected, the staff may:

• issue a warning;
• suspend someone for a period from the Discord server or from the Virtual Airline;
• permanently remove someone from the group.

8.2. Before a suspension or a removal, the person is heard, by message or by voice, and the facts in question are explained to them. In serious cases (spam, illegal content, harassment) the staff acts immediately and hears the person afterwards.

9. Personal data

9.1. Personal data is processed as described in the Privacy Policy, in compliance with the European Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR).

9.2. The first and last name given when joining the Virtual Airline appear in the Virtual Airline's public list of pilots.

9.3. You can ask at any time to see, correct or delete your data by writing to info@italianivolanti.it.

Part 2. The Virtual Airline

10. Joining

10.1. Joining the Virtual Airline is free and is done online: https://va.italianivolanti.it/index.php/registration. You need your real first and last name and a valid email address; the account is activated from the link sent by email and receives a Pilot ID, the code starting with IV.

10.2. The IVAO VID is optional.

10.3. The staff may deactivate accounts with false or incomplete data, duplicate registrations and those of people removed from the group.

11. Flying with the Virtual Airline

11.1. Flights are logged with IVACARS, on a Windows PC, with one of the simulators listed on the Virtual Airline's Download page.

11.2. You fly in free flight: no schedules or bookings. You enter the departure and arrival airports, or load a SimBrief plan, and start the flight from IVACARS. At the end of the flight, the flight report (PIREP) is assessed automatically, as explained in article 12.

11.3. The aircraft you can use depend on your rank: the up-to-date list is on the Virtual Airline's ranks and aircraft page (Gradi e aeromobili).

11.4. Flights are flown for real, in the simulator: the data recorded by IVACARS must not be falsified.

11.5. With Multiplayer IV other pilots can see you in flight: do not disrupt their operations, for example by stopping on the runway or flying into them.

12. Flight assessment (PIREP)

12.1. The PIREP is assessed automatically using the data recorded by IVACARS: Pending, Accepted or Rejected. If the data is not sufficient or the automatic assessment is not available, the PIREP stays Pending and is assessed by the staff.

12.2. The PIREP is rejected when:

• a landing exceeds 700 feet per minute;
• overspeed lasts more than 2 minutes in a row;
• there are more than 3 stall events;
• the simulation rate is not x1;
• slew is used during the flight;
• the simulator crashes between take-off and landing;
• fuel is added in flight (refuelling is allowed only on the ground, with the aircraft stopped);
• at a landing, fuel is at 5% or less;
• at the final landing, fuel is above 50% (this limit does not apply to intermediate stops);
• the actual airport is more than 10 nautical miles from the one entered, at departure or arrival;
• the aircraft is not allowed by your rank or by the activity, or it is changed or reloaded during the flight;
• the maximum times are exceeded: 120 minutes from opening IVACARS to the start of operations, 90 from releasing the parking brake (OFF BLOCKS) to take-off, 45 from landing to the final parking brake (ON BLOCKS), 30 from ON BLOCKS to sending the PIREP;
• in Speedy activities: more than 250 knots below 10,000 feet.

12.3. For the MB-339, Extra and Pitts, stalls and overspeed do not count; for gliders without an engine and for electric motors, the fuel checks do not apply.

12.4. When a rejection is already certain, IVACARS warns you during the flight: you choose whether to continue or cancel.

12.5. The reason for a rejection stays written in the PIREP, which remains in the flight log. While a PIREP is being assessed you can fly other flights.

12.6. The staff updates this list when the IVACARS checks change.

13. Events, tours and group flights

13.1. You register for events on the Virtual Airline before the event, by the deadline shown in the event. The event counts only with an accepted PIREP that meets the event's requirements.

13.2. You register for a tour only once, before flying: the registration covers all the legs, which you can fly in any order you like. Flights made before registering do not count.

13.3. A flight becomes a group flight automatically when at least two Virtual Airline pilots fly the same route while in the same Discord voice channel. It counts if the PIREP is valid and the flight was shared for at least 80% of the time.

14. Career and optional activities

14.1. The career has 10 ranks, from Private Pilot to Aviation Legend. You move up with flight hours and by taking part in the life of the group: a promotion requires at least one valid group flight in the month, otherwise the promotion waits (rank, account and free flights remain). The thresholds are on the Virtual Airline's ranks and aircraft page (Gradi e aeromobili).

14.2. Pilot Skill, Flight Passport and Flight Campaigns are optional: their rules are on the Virtual Airline's pages.

14.3. For thresholds, requirements and details that change over time, the Virtual Airline pages prevail.

15. Inactivity

15.1. After 60 days without activity the profile shows as inactive ("Non attivo"); after 120 days it leaves the list of pilots. Nothing is deleted: when you come back, you pick up where you left off.

16. IVAO

16.1. To fly on the IVAO network with the company callsign (IVV), follow the instructions on the Callsign IVV page.

Part 3. Final provisions

17. Changes

17.1. The staff may update these rules. The date of the last update is shown at the top; important changes are announced on Discord and, for the Virtual Airline, by email.

18. Leaving the group

18.1. You can leave the group whenever you want, by leaving the Discord server and, if you wish, by asking for your Virtual Airline account to be deleted at info@italianivolanti.it.

19. End of activities

19.1. If the group ever ceased its activities, any assets made available by individual members would go back to their owners, and any donation fund would not be divided among the members: it would go to cultural or charitable purposes, preferably related to flying.

20. English version

20.1. This English version is a translation. If the two versions differ, the Italian version prevails.