GCVA 20th Anniversary!
GCVA is turning 20 years old on May 29th, 2024!
20 years ago, Ralph Tofflemire, the maker of 747 Ready For Pushback (RFP) started Virtual Atlas Air (VAA) as an outlet to operate the aircraft in a realistic way. Some years later the name was changed to Virtual Globe Cargo and finally Globe Cargo Virtual Airlines.
Some of our past logos (unfortunately, a VAA logo couldn't be found):
In that same time, our real-world counterpart has seen some big changes as well. Atlas Air and Polar Air Cargo merged and later bought and merged Southern Air into the operation. The late 2000's had DHL owning 49% of Polar resulting in DHL hybrid liveries.
This is quite a remarkable feat that puts GCVA among the oldest VA's in existance.
We would like to thank all of our staff, past and present as well as all of our members, both past and present for helping us make it this long!
To commemorate this rare accomplishement in the virtual aviation hobby we are host a week-long competition with prizes.
May 24th, 0000z - June 2nd, 2359z
All PIREPs with a submittion date/time stamp in this window will be eligible to win a prize.
Prizes
- $150 - Lowest touchdown rate
- $150 - Most PIREPs submitted
- $100 - Second most PIREPs submitted
- $100 - Random drawing amoungst all members submitting PIREPs
The intent of the prizes is to use it towards the PMDG 777 when it is released for FS20. However, it is to be used at the winners descretion. The prize will be awarded via a Mastercard e-gift card or PayPal per the winners preference. The winners will be notified via the email on file and we will need to receive your prefered method of receiving the winnings. If we don't hear back within a day we will award the winnings to the next member in that group.
Each member can only win once.
When operating flights we encourage you to be on Discord. Staff may pop in time to time and we'd love to chat with members!