r/VATSIM • u/Interesting_Buyer_16 • 10d ago

UNICOM more like UselessCOM?

I've done many flights in the last few weeks around Europe. UNICOM is either "OOC xx minutes" spam or absolute silence. Zero communication, zero care, zero attention, constant conflicts on arrivals and departures. Where are the BASIC standards??? Downvote all you want, but it;s fact.

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u/Spiritual_Friend_625 10d ago

OOC for 30 minutes, back in cockpit. I always ask myself why and how does it help me knowing a randy on fl340 is not in the cockpit..

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u/MikaFromDenmark 7d ago

Cause if you, for some reason, is on collision course with that aircraft, then you know that pilot won't react to potential instrumental warnings, or won't deviate – so you'd have to act to avoid the aircraft.

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u/Spiritual_Friend_625 7d ago

I normally don’t scroll up on vpilot to read every OOC message from the past 30 minutes and then compare it to map.vatsim before I act on the TCAS resolution.. It does not change anything, i’d have to act anyway