These terms explain the rules for using Earth's Elite: our website earthelite.co.uk, our forums, our game servers, our TeamSpeak server, LaunchPad, and the Virtual Airline with its EE Flight Tracker app. By using any of them, you agree to these terms. Please also read our Privacy policy and Community rules.

Who we are

Earth's Elite is a gaming community run by volunteers. When these terms say "we" or "us", they mean Earth's Elite and its staff. You can reach us through Contact us, or report a problem through Report a problem.

Please don't send personal information by email. Our email is hosted outside the UK, so we delete personal information sent to us by email and ask you to send it again through Contact us or Report a problem, which keep it on our own server in the UK. If someone is in immediate danger, call 999.

Joining

  • You must be 13 or over to join. If you're under 13, a parent or guardian must give permission, using the form on our website, before your account is activated. They can withdraw it at any time through Contact us, which suspends the account. We don't accept permission by email.
  • Have one account, and only use your own. Keep your password to yourself: our staff will never ask for it.
  • Choose a username and profile that follow our rules. We may change or remove ones that don't.
  • New accounts are checked by staff before they're activated.

Our rules

Treat everyone the way you'd like to be treated. Our Community rules apply everywhere: on the website, the forums, our game servers and TeamSpeak. Each game server or division may also have its own rules. On top of those, you must not post, send or share anything that:

  • is illegal, or encourages or helps anyone break the law;
  • sexualises children in any way, or tries to build a relationship with a child for sexual purposes (grooming);
  • is sexually explicit, pornographic or graphically violent;
  • encourages suicide, self-harm or eating disorders;
  • bullies, harasses, threatens or abuses anyone, or attacks people for who they are (such as their race, religion, sex, sexuality, gender identity or disability);
  • shares someone's private information without their agreement;
  • is spam, a scam, malware, or advertising we haven't agreed to;
  • copies someone else's work without their permission;
  • pretends to be someone else, including our staff;
  • supports or promotes a terrorist group or any other organisation banned (proscribed) in the UK. We'll remove any account run by or for one.

Don't cheat, exploit bugs or use hacks on our game servers or in the Virtual Airline, and don't try to break into, overload or interfere with any of our services.

How we keep the community safe

  • Our staff moderate the forums, game servers, TeamSpeak and the Virtual Airline. We don't read everything as it's posted, so we rely on reports from members too.
  • When we find content that breaks these terms or our rules, we remove it, and we may also take action on the account (see below). We take reports of illegal content, and anything that puts a child at risk, most seriously and deal with them first.
  • Where we're required to, or where someone is at risk of harm, we report content and accounts to the police or other authorities.

Reporting content and making a complaint

  • To report a post or private message, use the Report to moderator link on it. For anything else, such as a player on a game server or something on the website, use Report a problem or Contact us. The EE Flight Tracker app links to Report a problem too. You don't need an account to contact us.
  • If it's illegal content or you're worried about someone's safety, choose Illegal or harmful content, or a safety worry, so we deal with it first. If someone is in immediate danger, call 999.
  • You can also complain to us about how we've handled a report, about content of yours we've removed, or about action we've taken on your account. Choose A complaint or an appeal on the form.
  • We'll look at every report and complaint. We aim to reply within 7 days. We'll tell you what we've done, unless that would put someone at risk.

If you break the rules

Depending on how serious it is, we may give a warning, remove content, mute or kick you from a game server or TeamSpeak, take away a rank or staff role, reject Virtual Airline flights or remove you from the airline, suspend your account for a time, or ban you. We'll usually tell you what happened and why. For the most serious cases, such as anything involving a child's safety, we may ban an account straight away and without warning.

Appeals

If you think we've got it wrong, you can appeal. Use Contact us and choose "A complaint or an appeal" within 14 days, saying what happened and why you think it was wrong. Your appeal will be looked at by a member of Senior Staff who wasn't involved in the original decision, and we'll tell you the outcome.

The Virtual Airline

  • Joining: any member can join the Virtual Airline in the EE Flight Tracker app. You can leave at any time, in the app or at earthelite.co.uk/airline/settings, which deletes your airline record.
  • Fly honestly: only send flights you really flew, in the aircraft you booked. Don't fake, edit or replay flights, or use slew, pause or sim rate to get round the checks. Flights that fail a check go to staff, who can accept or reject them, and staff can correct ranks, ratings and hours.
  • Notes for staff: the note on a flight report is read only by airline staff. Our rules apply to it. To report a safety worry, use Report a problem, not a flight report.
  • Co-pilots: only send co-pilot requests to people you want to fly with, and don't keep asking someone who has said no. Members under 18, or whose account has no date of birth, are shown by their callsign only, can't receive co-pilot requests, and can't fly with adults.
  • Stream overlay: only adult members of the Stream Team can use it. You're responsible for what appears on your stream, and Twitch's terms apply there.
  • The EE Flight Tracker app is free software for Windows that we provide as it is. Only download it from our website. It installs a small Earth's Elite add-on into your flight simulator, and removes it if you uninstall the app. Your simulator, SimBrief and Navigraph have their own terms, which apply when you use them.

What you post

  • You own what you post. By posting it, you give us permission to show it on our services, keep it there, and move or edit it where needed to run the community (for example, moving a topic or fixing a broken link).
  • You're responsible for what you post. Posts are the views of the people who wrote them, not of Earth's Elite.
  • You can delete your posts, and your account, at any time. When you delete your account, you choose whether your posts stay or are deleted with it.

Our services

  • The website, forums, game servers and TeamSpeak are run by volunteers for free, in our spare time. We try to keep them running, but we can't promise they'll always be available, and we may change or close any of them.
  • LaunchPad is free software we provide as it is. Only download it from our website. It works out which games you play and for how long, as our Privacy policy explains.
  • Other companies' services, such as Twitch, Steam, PayPal, SimBrief, Navigraph and the games and simulators themselves, have their own terms, which apply when you use them. We aren't responsible for them, or for other websites we link to.

Chipping in

Donations through Chip in are voluntary gifts that help pay for our servers. They don't buy any goods, services, ranks or special treatment, and you don't need to donate to take part. If you'd like a donation back, contact us within 14 days of making it and we'll refund it.

Ending your account

You can delete your account at any time from earthelite.co.uk/account/delete. We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, as explained above.

Responsibility

We run Earth's Elite with care, but as a free, volunteer-run community we can't accept responsibility for losses caused by using our services, such as lost game progress, as far as the law allows. Nothing in these terms limits anything we can't legally limit, such as responsibility for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or your rights under consumer law.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. When we make a change that matters, we'll tell members on the website before it takes effect. If you don't agree with the new terms, you can delete your account.

Law

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and its courts can deal with any dispute. If you live elsewhere in the UK, you can also use the courts where you live.

Last updated 9 November 2026.