Place your plane at HOPE, British Columbia, CanadaTake off in an North-Easterly direction.Climb to about 1800 ASL, and then visually pick up the Trans Canada Highway. Stay just to the left of it, East bound and use it as your guide. Continue East.Now...just fly...and OGLE the fabulous scenery. As you cruise over the highway...you will make an awesome turn to the left as the highway climbs upon the mountain cutaway, and deeks over and around a point. This is some FANTASTIC VFR scenery here, Folks. As you start your inital sojourn at 1800 feet, you will follow the highway as it climbs through the mountains to near about 6,000 feet ASL. Lots of fun!Make sure at HOPE that your tanks are topped up.....Put your Level of Detail Radius to LARGEMesh Complexity to 100Mesh Resolution to 1MTexture Resolution to 1MWater Effect to Max 2Scenery Complexity to VERY DENSEAuto Gen to none/0 percent, if you are using UTX Can and FSXnhancer 1.08 (you won't need it, for the ground will look amazing!)As a result of this FSX flight...I have decided to visit this area by motorcycle. I can only imagine what it will be like to follow the river valley with the majestic peaks to your left and right. :) FSX has just picked my next Summer Vakay. :) You GO, FSX!Check it out...keep following the highway Northeast toward Kamloops, etc...and enjoy the fabulous mountains along the Valley Route.Edit: disregard the numeral '1' in the title. Typo.Mitch

I live in the Vancouver area, so I guess I have gotten pretty used to the scenery. If you like it in FSX, you'll truly go nuts over the Vancouver+ version, but I have said that in other threads already.The British Columbia interior by motorcycle is really awe-inspiring, but I think the best time is mid to late September, or early October, weather willing. The fall colours are absolutely magical, it's like driving though the full gamut of paint colours all at once. Jeff ShylukSenior Staff ReviewerAVSIM

Always great to hear people satisfied like this. Don't forget about the "Dream Flights" forum.http://forums1.avsim.net/index.php?showforum=193

Place your plane at HOPE, British Columbia, CanadaTake off in an North-Easterly direction.Climb to about 1800 ASL, and then visually pick up the Trans Canada Highway. Stay just to the left of it, East bound and use it as your guide. Continue East.Now...just fly...and OGLE the fabulous scenery. As you cruise over the highway...you will make an awesome turn to the left as the highway climbs upon the mountain cutaway, and deeks over and around a point. This is some FANTASTIC VFR scenery here, Folks. As you start your inital sojourn at 1800 feet, you will follow the highway as it climbs through the mountains to near about 6,000 feet ASL. Lots of fun!Make sure at HOPE that your tanks are topped up.....Put your Level of Detail Radius to LARGEMesh Complexity to 100Mesh Resolution to 1MTexture Resolution to 1MWater Effect to Max 2Scenery Complexity to VERY DENSEAuto Gen to none/0 percent, if you are using UTX Can and FSXnhancer 1.08 (you won't need it, for the ground will look amazing!)As a result of this FSX flight...I have decided to visit this area by motorcycle. I can only imagine what it will be like to follow the river valley with the majestic peaks to your left and right. :) FSX has just picked my next Summer Vakay. :) You GO, FSX!Check it out...keep following the highway Northeast toward Kamloops, etc...and enjoy the fabulous mountains along the Valley Route.Edit: disregard the numeral '1' in the title. Typo.Mitch

Mitch-I can't tell you how many future trips I have planned on the basis of Ms sim. One of the more enjoyable was going to Lake Chelen and up to Stehekin-I had done this for years on the sim and thought it would be a great place to visit-and it was!

Would you mind enlightening me what the heck is FSXnhancer??? Google turns up nothing but your post?Thx,Alex

Would you mind enlightening me what the heck is FSXnhancer??? Google turns up nothing but your post?Thx,Alex

-------------------------------------So sorry...should have been GEXnhanced 1.08 (Ground Effects....)

Place your plane at HOPE, British Columbia, CanadaTake off in an North-Easterly direction.Climb to about 1800 ASL, and then visually pick up the Trans Canada Highway. Stay just to the left of it, East bound and use it as your guide. Continue East.Now...just fly...and OGLE the fabulous scenery. As you cruise over the highway...you will make an awesome turn to the left as the highway climbs upon the mountain cutaway, and deeks over and around a point. This is some FANTASTIC VFR scenery here, Folks. As you start your inital sojourn at 1800 feet, you will follow the highway as it climbs through the mountains to near about 6,000 feet ASL. Lots of fun!Make sure at HOPE that your tanks are topped up.....Put your Level of Detail Radius to LARGEMesh Complexity to 100Mesh Resolution to 1MTexture Resolution to 1MWater Effect to Max 2Scenery Complexity to VERY DENSEAuto Gen to none/0 percent, if you are using UTX Can and FSXnhancer 1.08 (you won't need it, for the ground will look amazing!)As a result of this FSX flight...I have decided to visit this area by motorcycle. I can only imagine what it will be like to follow the river valley with the majestic peaks to your left and right. :) FSX has just picked my next Summer Vakay. :) You GO, FSX!Check it out...keep following the highway Northeast toward Kamloops, etc...and enjoy the fabulous mountains along the Valley Route.Edit: disregard the numeral '1' in the title. Typo.Mitch

When you're right, you're right. What a beautiful flight. If any of you don't have FSGenesis for Canada, it's worth it for this flight alone. I almost forgot it was a simulator. I almost wore out my TrackIR looking around so much.

I live in the Vancouver area, so I guess I have gotten pretty used to the scenery. If you like it in FSX, you'll truly go nuts over the Vancouver+ version, but I have said that in other threads already.The British Columbia interior by motorcycle is really awe-inspiring, but I think the best time is mid to late September, or early October, weather willing. The fall colours are absolutely magical, it's like driving though the full gamut of paint colours all at once. Jeff ShylukSenior Staff ReviewerAVSIM

-------------------------------------------------------------------------Jeff and Geofa,I'm already packing the bike with a mental checklist! If I have the time, and the weather in the area behaves...It's a done deal. Also...I want to go to Cape Breton Island. Nova Scotia is a charmer as well. I can't count all the times I have gotten out of my virtual plane...and wished I could have just stepped into reality as my feet touched the tarmac.....oh yeah.....never enough time.....BTW, when the reader has about 15 minutes...place your plane at STOWE, Vermont...and enjoy the great VFR of the White Mountains. There are so many great VFR places to now enjoy with a system that SHOWS ME IT! :) Life is good...Life is good. I haven't been in Heavy Iron since having bought the 730x. Too much to miss from the FL's...lol. Before...that's where you'd only find me...lol. Funny, how things change. Mitch

When you're right, you're right. What a beautiful flight. If any of you don't have FSGenesis for Canada, it's worth it for this flight alone. I almost forgot it was a simulator. I almost wore out my TrackIR looking around so much.

Wasn't it a sheer hoot! As you start your climb following the highway...I wonder what the name of that peak is...the HONKING TALL one with the snow fields upon it to the right of the highway. I guess, that I'll have to GOOGLE Hope, B.C. and check out some real photos taken by air.Honestly...this is the first time that FSX has put a place on the map for a real-life visit. Not that other scenery hasn't the WOW-Factor built in...but I can ONLY imagine taking this route via a touring motorcycle...leaning left and right into the curves, following the highway...and keeping a mental presence not to TOURIST myself right up and over a guardrail...into the river! Not good...:) It will be hard keeping the eyes upon the road, but a man has got to do, what a man has got to do! LOLOLOLOL.Geez..LOLMitch

Awesome flight, thanks!

You were mentioning Vermont VFR... are you going through a checklist of my favourite flights? When in Vermont, be sure to check out Savage Island (VT15). It's private (and a bird sanctuary, I believe), but in the 1960's it used to be a fly-in resort. I used to have a brochure for it somewhere. There's even a local ghost that bumps and bangs into things, carries a mysterious light, and ties the horses' tails into knots! Also very nice VFR sceneries in FSX:Jackson Hole, WyomingSpringfield, OregonAlthough FSX looks good on the Eastern Canadian coast, I don't think it does justice to the true natural beauty of Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, PEI, etc. Internationally, I like for VFRMontego Bay, JamaicaManila, PhillipinesLugano, Switzerland (glider heaven!!)... if you read my reviews, you will find the places I like to fly in FSX!Jeff ShylukSenior Staff ReviewerAVSIM