Terms

These are the rules for using PlanePit. They are meant to be read. If something here does not make sense, email info@planepit.com and we will try to explain it. If the wording is genuinely bad, we will fix it.

Who can use PlanePit

Adults who fly or own aircraft. We verify that before you get full access. If your verification is still pending, you can read most of the public briefings, but you cannot post or join member-only threads. If you are under eighteen, this is not the place for you.

Your account

One person, one account. You are responsible for what happens under your login, which means a strong password and, once we ship it, two-factor authentication. Tell us as soon as you think someone else is using your account.

Your content

What you post is yours. You keep the copyright. By posting, you give us a license to store, display, and back up your content so the site can actually function, and to quote it where PlanePit has a presence (for example, a short excerpt in our own newsletter, credited to you). That license ends when you delete the content or close your account, with the usual caveats for anything already cached by search engines or archived elsewhere on the web.

What you may not do

• Pretend to be someone you are not.
• Post other people's personal information without their consent.
• Upload malware, spam, or anything that would get us kicked off our hosting.
• Use PlanePit to harass, threaten, or dox other members.
• Scrape the site to build a commercial dataset. A person reading PlanePit is welcome. A bot collecting member profiles to resell them is not.
• Break any law that applies to you where you live or where you fly.

Aviation advice

Members talk about real flying. That is the whole point. None of it is a substitute for a current instructor, a qualified mechanic, your POH, or the regulator in your country. Do not fly an airplane because someone on the internet said it would probably be fine. What you read on PlanePit is how other pilots think, not a clearance to go.

Paid plans

If we ever launch a paid plan, the price and billing terms will be on a pricing page and this section will link to them. Until that happens, PlanePit is free and this paragraph is here so we do not have to rewrite the whole page later.

Suspension and termination

We can suspend or close accounts that break these rules. Where the situation is ambiguous, we will write to you first and ask what happened. Where it is not (for example, posting someone's home address or uploading malware), we will act and explain afterwards. You can close your own account at any time from your settings.

No warranty

We run PlanePit carefully, but we do not promise it will be bug-free, online every minute of every day, or free of content you disagree with. Use it knowing that.

Liability

To the extent the law allows us to limit it, our total liability to you for anything connected to PlanePit is capped at whatever you have paid us in the previous 12 months. If you have paid us nothing, that number is zero. We are not liable for indirect losses such as missed flights, missed business, or missed opportunities that trace back to the site.

Changes to these terms

We will update these terms when we need to. If a change actually affects what you can do or what we can do with your account, we will post the new version here and email active members at least 14 days in advance.

Contact

Write to info@planepit.com with "terms" in the subject line and a person will get back to you.