Anyone fly for these guys? Was thinking about joining them again, the website works, but when I select any link nothing happens. The website seems up to date, so I assume an issue on my end, but just checking.

I used to fly for them way back in FS2004 days with Ralph Tofflemire's great "Ready for Pushback" B747-200. It was great fun flying the real cargo routes and I remember having many entertaining chats with fellow pilots and Ralph.

An anecdote from those days: I had to fly to Europe from Havana with a fully loaded B742. I promised Ralph to bring him a box of cigars from Cuba. When I was over Florida, engine No.3 went kaputt and I decided to return to Havana. I had to vent fuel for I was way overloaded to land safely. Well, on approach late in the evening a heavy storm developed and I had the devil's time navigating through those thick clouds. On landing I managed to collapse the right main gear on the B742... so, my flight ended without the cigars for Ralph with a broken B742 back where I started from. I never heard the end of it but it was all in good fun. 🙂

I do not know how is Globe Cargo today, but the fact that they are still around says a lot. I'll go and have a look at the website.

 

https://www.globecargova.org/

Looks like they are active, but you have to be a member before any of the links work. 

 

6 hours ago, Paul K said:

https://www.globecargova.org/

Looks like they are active, but you have to be a member before any of the links work. 

 

Thanks, but the problem is a little deeper than that. When you hit the "Join" button (which should work for all) most of the time I just get a spinning wheel and need to backout of the webpage and try again. Did this many times last night and finally got through. However, this morning, same issues; spinning wheel, can't get in. 

8 hours ago, Jure said:

I used to fly for them way back in FS2004 days with Ralph Tofflemire's great "Ready for Pushback" B747-200. It was great fun flying the real cargo routes and I remember having many entertaining chats with fellow pilots and Ralph.

An anecdote from those days: I had to fly to Europe from Havana with a fully loaded B742. I promised Ralph to bring him a box of cigars from Cuba. When I was over Florida, engine No.3 went kaputt and I decided to return to Havana. I had to vent fuel for I was way overloaded to land safely. Well, on approach late in the evening a heavy storm developed and I had the devil's time navigating through those thick clouds. On landing I managed to collapse the right main gear on the B742... so, my flight ended without the cigars for Ralph with a broken B742 back where I started from. I never heard the end of it but it was all in good fun. 🙂

I do not know how is Globe Cargo today, but the fact that they are still around says a lot. I'll go and have a look at the website.

 

Yep, flew for them back in the day as well.... may have even been FS2000. Very regimented, but that added to the fun and emersion. 

I just used Paul's link, clicked on join and everything worked fine.  Took me straigh to the sign up and no spinning wheel.    So it might have been a local connection issue.

1 hour ago, JYW said:

I just used Paul's link, clicked on join and everything worked fine.  Took me straigh to the sign up and no spinning wheel.    So it might have been a local connection issue.

VPNs are sometimes to blame for this - a couple times a day I'll encounter a link or something that just doesn't work or throws Forbidden and it works fine once I log out of the VPN. Probably Cloudflare etc. IP blacklisting the VPN server

On 1/19/2026 at 2:43 PM, Jure said:

I used to fly for them way back in FS2004 days with Ralph Tofflemire's great "Ready for Pushback" B747-200. It was great fun flying the real cargo routes and I remember having many entertaining chats with fellow pilots and Ralph.

An anecdote from those days: I had to fly to Europe from Havana with a fully loaded B742. I promised Ralph to bring him a box of cigars from Cuba. When I was over Florida, engine No.3 went kaputt and I decided to return to Havana. I had to vent fuel for I was way overloaded to land safely. Well, on approach late in the evening a heavy storm developed and I had the devil's time navigating through those thick clouds. On landing I managed to collapse the right main gear on the B742... so, my flight ended without the cigars for Ralph with a broken B742 back where I started from. I never heard the end of it but it was all in good fun. 🙂

I do not know how is Globe Cargo today, but the fact that they are still around says a lot. I'll go and have a look at the website.

 

What a memorable story! It sounds like you had quite the adventure with that B742.