Attention all pilots. Sryth is back and he has somethings to say.
I have read the post race report and see a lot of good things and a few issues. I am going to put to rest some issues and lay down a few new rules. All changes come are in order of importance

1. There seems to have been a problem with foul language on Voice Chat. This is supose to be a fun sport if you need to use vulgar language please turn your RW off voice activated, otherwise the following actions will be taken.

1st Infraction: You will be asked to stop nicely
2nd Infraction: You will be kicked from the RW server. Any attempt to rejoin the server will result in being kicked from the race server
3rd Infraction: You will be banned from RW and the Race server for a month
4th Infraction: You will be removed from VARO pending discussion with the VARO board on how to prevent this from happening again

I term Vulgar language as to anything that is offensive to anyone on the VARO RW server. You need to use "Public" language when on the VARO servers.

2.Text Chat
It has been brought to my attention that the majority of Pilots are using RW with great success however those of you still using text chat be warned frame rates began to drop in the last race due to excessive chat. This is not an aircraft issue. We have had 10 aircraft in server using RW and expierenced no lag. If the problem persists and the majority of pilots are having issues with text chat RW will be mandatory. For those of your this affects RW has a very small effect on bandwidth and can be used on slow connections with very little problems.

3.Fuel
There is no rules in the bylaws for fuel for one reason. There are no rules! as long as you have enough fuel to finish the race and land you are golden, but if you finihs the race and can't make it back to the airfield due to fuel issues you got the back of the pack in the results.

4. Gentleman's Rules
We are working on programs to help us enforce rule but we are putting a lot of fath in pilots. So here is the deal if we find that a pilot is doing thins that are unfair(tweaked .cfg files or settings), cutting pylons etc. We will take action we are counting on pilots to be "Gentlemen" and play fair.My goal with VARO was to keep things simple but if it somes down to lots of people causing issues VARO will take action. And always remember the AIRBOSS,Vice-President,President are in charge with the President having final ruling over eveything when it comes to a race weekend.

5. Air Start.
We have decided that the current airstart procedure is a tad unfair. So we are modifying it and should prove for some awesome races. Now instead of "targeting" the aircraft in front of you in line we will now "target" a pace plane flown by another pilot not in the race. The pace plane will be a standard FS aircarft that can do about 250kts. All aircraft will line up as normal but are incouraged to fly the course as closly infline as possible. Just before the pace plane rounds the scatter pylon all pilots should hold the follow plane until given the spread signal. This will look wierd since it will put all aircraft in the same position. Once the spread command is issued all aircraft should spread right and setup you a run down the home pylon. Pilots should try to stay at the same altitude and as close to a line a possible. I should not see aircraft on top of each other. We will hold that for a few seconds until everyone is in shape then the pace plane will pull up. That is the signal to dive to race altitude and go full throttle. The pace plane canot be passed at any time before if pulls up any aircart doing so will be placed 1 lap down.

These changes will be going into the bylaws before the Next Big Unlimted race this weekend. We will be runing a practice airstart before the race just to see how it looks if you wish to help us with this please e-mail me We will run the practice saturday after noon between 1200pm to 4pm depending on if I am awake or not. If you have any issues with these changes or any comments(are the good, bad, need revising, etc) let e-mail me know. If you think you were in the wrong last weekend its ok to apologize to the mailing list. We are not looking for a lot of negative feelings here VARO is supose to be fun.

Sryth
VARO President