About us

Arrow Cargo Virtual (ACV) is a virtual cargo airline of hobby-flight-simulator enthusiasts. The main destinations of ACV are located in Alaska, America, Australia, Asia and Europe. People from everywhere on planet are welcome. ACV uses its own developed ACVacars tool for monitoring and assessing ACV-flights. Our focus is on cargo and industrial flights.

The virtual pilots of ACV feel ambition to perform a flight in a quite realistic matter. Instead of flying planless from point A to point B, we follow the waypoints of a flightplan. Furthermore, the different phases of a flight are mastered by respecting some minimum flight rules and (optional) by working off the particular checklist.

Meanwhile, the ACV cargo network consists of several hundreds worldwide cargo flight-routes.
Do you want to fly a cargo journey in the world of flight simulations from Anchorage to Miami, Moscow, Dubai, Hongkong, Melbourne, Hawaii and back to Anchorage? This and much more offers ACV.

ACV does not accept each candidate. Certain minimum criterias must be fulfilled for joining ACV as a virtual airline pilot:

- Minimum age of 18;
- Being able to fly one of the candidate-aircraft from A to B (flight-route);
- The will to appear from time to time on our forum and on Discord;
- Being able to communicate in English;
- Free ACV-pilot slot available;
- Respecting ACV-rules.

Each candidate begins with zero ACV-flying-hours. Flying hours of other virtual airlines (VA) are not creditable. Below a certain minimum of flying hours an ACV pilot does not have access to each aircraft of ACV. The general rule is, the bigger the airplane the more flying hours are required. But it is not necessary to have hundreds of ACV-flying-hours before receiving access to the big planes (compared to some other VAs). Each member gets treated equally.

ACV does not endlessly accept new candidates. The atmosphere/mood (a good understanding/"easy going") among the ACV-members is more important than having as much pilots as possible. In addition, ACV accepts only as much pilots as needed for the current fleet.

ACV was founded in July 2016 by PeteFly82 for the purpose of establishing a virtual airline with focus on cargo flights. From July 2016 to March 2020 ACV was only internally used as a testbed for the development of the own acars software ACVacars. Important improvements have been brought to ACVacars and to the fleet from Spring to Autumn 2020 to bring ACV even closer to the simmers need. ACV is open for flight simmers since January 2021.

The ACV flight network was expanded to include the charter cargo business in April 2023. During Summer 2023 the sub branch Arrow Charter has been equipped with an own fleet. The charter fleet has been extended with the superlifters AN-225 Antonov and A-306ST Beluga in Q4/2023 and Q1/2024. Pilots of Arrow Cargo are entitled to fly Arrow Charter aircraft too.

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