An open letter from the Office of the General Counsel.
De la Cruz-Montalván y Aguirre del Sotomonte — Abogados · Estudio Jurídico · Patagonia
CONAIR MUSIC INDUSTRIES, LLC
A subsidiary of the CONAIR Group of Companies · Office of the General Counsel
Punta Arenas · Rothera · Kabul · [REDACTED]
Our Ref: CMI/GC/NOOT-2026/WEB-01 Re: General Legal Notices, This Website
To Whom It May Concern (Visitors, Litigants, Process Servers, and the Merely Curious),
I write to you, as I so often find myself writing to someone, in my capacity as General Counsel of CONAIR Music Industries, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of the CONAIR Group of Companies, and on the express personal instruction of Señor Cousin, our Chief Executive Officer, who asks that I convey his warmest regards and his considerable personal indifference to most of what follows. (He further asks that I note the Company trades publicly as "CONAIR Musical Industries" — a renaming this office was not consulted on, did not approve, and has elected not to litigate.)
It has been brought to my attention — repeatedly, and by individuals of varying degrees of seriousness — that a website of this nature, dedicated as it is to the dramatization of a charitable aviation relay through the medium of singing penguins, invites certain questions of a legal character. I address the principal ones below, con mucho gusto.
CONAIR Musical Industries and CONAIR Cargo Airline are independent sponsors of the PSCC WorldFlight Affiliate team and are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or otherwise connected to WorldFlight, WorldFlight Center, or their organizers. The word "WorldFlight" is used throughout this site solely, and exclusively, to describe the actual charitable event our sponsored crew has the honor of flying. No confusion is intended, and any that nevertheless arises is, we are advised, not actionable.
Certain real individuals associated with Simfest have, on occasion, been referenced by name and characteristic within this Production. I am pleased to confirm that CONAIR Music Industries holds a royalty-free, perpetual, worldwide license — obtained, I might add, with considerable warmth on both sides — to reference, depict, and otherwise creatively employ the names and personal attributes of the individuals in question, in connection with the Production and its associated recordings. Señor Cousin has asked me to note that he considers at least one such attribute "very funny" and would be personally disappointed to see it removed.
All biographies appearing on the Cast page, whether of the principal (fictional, penguin) cast or the "Supporting Roles" (the very real, and very patient, PSCC team), are offered entirely in a spirit of warmth, admiration, and good-natured celebration, and are intended for entertainment purposes only. Should any individual named therein object to a particular characterization, CONAIR Music Industries shall, upon written notice, use commercially reasonable efforts to revise the offending material.
The histories set out on the Aircraft page — concerning, among other things, a certain museum piece, a certain re-registration, and a certain team of leopard seals — are dramatized for entertainment purposes and should not be relied upon in any actual customs, registration, or insurance proceeding, notwithstanding their obvious historical accuracy.
The shop is not a real store. Nothing depicted therein is shipped, and nothing is ever charged, to anyone, under any circumstances. Any resemblance to an actual e-commerce checkout experience is purely for comedic effect, and we would ask that it not be mistaken for an offer, an invoice, or a customs declaration.
All tracks presented on the music page are original works. No penguins were harmed in the making of this catalog. For the avoidance of doubt — and this office cannot stress the point strongly enough — nothing in this catalog constitutes an aeronautical approval, a flight clearance, or advice of any kind; readers seeking guidance on such matters are directed to the Flight Standards Department's official safety notice, which remains posted, in its entirety, on the front page, as required by an abundance of caution this office fully endorses.
Certain tracks in this catalog touch on politics, real-world conflicts, religion, and language that Señor Cousin describes as "colorful" and this office describes as "regrettable." Visitors may choose which of these categories they wish to hear via the content preferences provided. Satire of governments, regimes, and public institutions is offered in jest and should not be mistaken for the considered position of CONAIR, PSCC, or any penguin.
This Production is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to VATSIM. The occasional depiction of penguins taxiing without clearance, holding while asleep, or departing in formations of twenty-eight is fiction; the VATSIM Code of Conduct remains entirely in force for everyone else. Streamers are respectfully reminded that, where a stream is linked from a VATSIM flight plan, the Code applies to everything played on it — including, regrettably, this catalog. This office accepts no responsibility for selections made in such circumstances, and Señor Cousin accepts even less.
This office wishes to record that the catalog has been reviewed, song by song, with a view to ensuring that its humor punches at penguins, bureaucracies, and Señor Cousin — and not at any real person, people, faith, or nation. Where a track was found to touch on matters some listeners may find sensitive, it has either been revised, approved by those it concerns, or placed behind the content preferences described above, so that each visitor may decide for themselves.
We have taken every reasonable care. We do not, however, claim perfection; comedy, like aviation, involves a certain margin of error. Should any visitor nonetheless find something here hurtful rather than funny, we would genuinely like to know, and ask that you tell us via the Contact link. We will listen, and where appropriate, we will change it. Señor Cousin has authorized this undertaking, and, for once, means it.
Our external counsel in Brussels — a firm this office retains at considerable expense and consults with even greater reluctance — advises that Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (the "AI Act"), and Article 50 thereof in particular, requires certain providers and deployers to clearly disclose when content has been generated or manipulated by artificial intelligence. This office takes such obligations with the gravity they deserve, and accordingly discloses, plainly and without further legal embroidery, that the musical compositions appearing on the music page were generated with the assistance of an artificial intelligence system, to which this office refers, with professional courtesy, only as "the Composer."
This office wishes to further disclose, in a spirit of full and voluntary candor, that the Composer has never actually flown a Boeing 747, crossed the Drake Passage, held a VATSIM rating, or met a real penguin, and that any impression of firsthand expertise conveyed by its lyrics should be weighed accordingly. The Composer is also, per the earlier section of this letter styling the catalog "original works," understood by this office to be exercising a form of originality recognized nowhere in the Berne Convention, a discrepancy General Counsel has elected not to litigate against itself.
For the further avoidance of doubt, this disclosure does not extend to Señor Cousin, who, despite persistent rumor to the contrary, this office can confirm is not artificial — merely uninsurable.
"NOOT! Flight of the Penguins" is a trademark of CONAIR Music Industries, LLC (pending, and likely to remain so for some time). All other trademarks, trade names, liveries, and logos referenced or depicted on this site — including, without limitation, those of WorldFlight, Simfest, and sundry real-world airlines, aircraft manufacturers, and motorcycle marques appearing incidentally in the background of certain photographs — remain the property of their respective owners, and are used here under license, by permission, or in the honest and good-faith belief that penguins are generally exempt from such considerations.
In the interest of candor — a quality this office holds in higher esteem than most of our shareholders would prefer — I set aside the house style for a moment to state plainly what this site actually does with your data, since a penguin in a cookie costume explaining it to you on arrival, while charming, does not fully discharge our obligations under the law of several jurisdictions.
If you accept the cookie prompt, this site sets one anonymous cookie
(wf_visitor_id) containing a random number, used only to count visitors, song plays,
downloads, and merchandise "purchases" on these pages. It is not linked to your name, your email,
or any account, and is never shared with a third party. A second cookie
(wf_cookie_consent) simply remembers your answer to the prompt so we do not ask
again. If you unlock preview music with a keypad code, a third cookie
(wf_preview_code) remembers that you did — it, too, carries no personal data. We use
no third-party analytics and no advertising trackers of any kind.
Visitors who adjust the content filter in the music player cause two further cookies to be set:
one (wf_content_prefs) recording which content categories you have chosen to allow,
and another (wf_skip_filtered) recording whether you would prefer a filtered track
to be skipped outright rather than held for confirmation. Both are session cookies — cleared
when the browser itself is closed, not merely on reload — are set only in direct response to
your own use of those controls, and carry no personal data, same as the three above.
These pages are a public promotional site and do not themselves handle any PSCC Shared Cockpit Crew member account. If you hold an actual PSCC account on the Flight Centre, the full privacy policy governing that account — including your rights of access, rectification, and erasure — is published at mkro.se/flightcentre/privacy.
Should any visitor to this site have a legal question not addressed above, I would ask that they kindly make use of the "Contact" link found elsewhere on this page, rather than attempting to serve this office directly — our receptionist, a penguin, is not authorized to accept process on our behalf, and has in the past mistaken subpoenas for fish.
With the utmost respect and considerable personal warmth,
Don Fernando Eusebio de la Cruz-Montalván y Aguirre del Sotomonte, Marqués de Neuquén
General Counsel, CONAIR Music Industries, LLC
CONAIR Musical Industries has no working switchboard and takes no calls. For anything that genuinely can't wait, write to pscc@mkro.se instead.