Globe Cargo News

We have completed all requested tasking from vUSAF on Operation Deep Freeze prepositioning personnel, food, supplies, and equipment for use in McMurdo Station. As such, we have delivered on time and completed final tasking early. As for the end of ODF, around March, they will be requesting GCVA to help with return flights to PHNL and possibly other locations. More information to follow in January. Keep an eye on the Charter Board and the News section for any and all updates.  Job Well Done All !

We would like to provide an update on the progress of our Dispatch project. As many of you are aware, recent changes to SimBrief’s terms of service have required us to adjust our approach. Under the new terms, each SimBrief user must perform calculations through their own account. This adjustment has necessitated a review and revision of our existing code, which has taken longer than initially anticipated.

While the project has faced several challenges, we are pleased to report that most of the major hurdles have been overcome. In addition to addressing these issues, we have also decided to incorporate a new feature with GCP, enabling pilots to generate flight plans independently when dispatchers are offline.

The project is currently approximately 90% complete. Our team is working diligently with our web developer to finalize the GCP integration. At this stage, we are unable to provide a specific completion timeline, as additional challenges may arise.

Thank you for your continued patience and support as we work to bring this project to fruition.

We are happy to announce that parking stands have been added to the Airport data map on the website. 

This data is entered manually. Many airports have been completed but nowhere near all have this data yet. The airports used most commonly in our operation were prioritized.

Only stands actually used by our real world counterpart are contained in the data. This means that you can look up the stands at the airports you're operating and be confident it's a realistic location. Furthermore, there are 7 categories of stands: Scheduled Passenger and Cargo, Military Passenger and Cargo, and Charter Passenger, Cargo, Sports. There is a maximum wingspan for each stand for additional information.

Access the Stands data by viewing the Airport data (Flight Operations->Airports). You can turn the Stands on by either selecting the category (or all categories) in the Layers options in the upper right corner of the map view. Scroll down the page to see the Stands textualized along with each category that stand fits into. Finally, you can display specific stands on the map by checking the View On Map checkbox associated with that stand.

Here is an example, PHNL: PHNL Airport Data

GCVA is participating this this years' Virtual United States Air Force (vUSAF) Operation Deep Freeze (ODF). There will be charter flights available on the Charter Board in support of this operation.

Operation Deep Freeze is a yearly event hosted by the vUSAF. ODF simulates the movement of personnel and equipment to Antarctica. While we won't be operating flights to the "ice", we will be moving equipment and people who will make the trip to the far South.

We have been contracted to carry a combination of food, station equipment, and scientific equipment. Our routes are primarily PHNL-NZCH and will be available on the Charter Board. These flights will be highlighted at the top. If you are available to operate one of these flight, please consider one of these flights and lets show that GCVA can be entrusted to move the requested items reliably and on-time!

The procedure is simple. Select the flight from the Charter Board and fly it. Management will take care of the coordination with vUSAF to verify the flight was complete. Your callsign will be "CAMBER" and CMB 3-letter code rather than one of our usual callsigns. Flying on VATSIM is highly encouraged however not required.

The contract flights are to be completed between November 25th and December 24th. There will be return flights scheduled in January and February. More information on that as that mission approaches.

Questions? The best sources would be either Mike (@jmtss3) or Darrell (@dxdarrellgordon1557) on Discord.

Example flight listing:

A new schedule has been uploaded and will be available for bidding during the next bid period. This update includes NFL charters using N263SG and N322SG. If you are interested in operating these charters, keep an eye out for them in the upcoming bid cycle. These charters will only appear in the bid system and not in the Charter syste.

Here are the stats from the current and new schedule. The "Active" schedule stats are for the currently available schedule. The "Standby" schedule stats are for the schedule that goes into effect on April1st.