This one should be fun. Follow the second longest river entirely in B.C. to its source. Make sure you have plenty of fuel.

 

Enjoy.

Hi Folks

 

It may be at the source of some river,

but AFAICS it certainly ain't the Skeena.

 

Not found wherever its at yet. :unsure:

 

HTH

ATB

Paul

Is it near Terrace (CYXT) ?

I`ll try later this night.

Hi Folks

 

Follow the river ! (from Prince Rupert).

 

Do not attempt to visit the IRL location,

as the AotD is located 160 km / 85 NM away,

buried in a landscape that looks like it came from the original SimCity.

 

These AotDs are definitely degenerating.

 

ATB

Paul

Yes you are correct.

It`s not the origin of Skeena River, it`s just the incomplete Scenery/Mesh inside Flight. The real real location is far more north.

Misleading AotD...sadly.

 

The location in Flight is near the junction of Babine and Skeena River.

The easiest way to find the cache is to fly 050 deg. +- from Ketchikan. Find the river and follow it North until it ends up in a deep hole in the ground. I flew the Red Tail, and flew past the marker, did a 180, and then dove down to collect the cache. I then flew back roughly 230 deg. to Ketchikan and landed at Annette Island instead.

A long but interesting journey up the Skeena. Discovered some detailed towns along the way, despite the partially completed landscape. Check out the grain elevator above the cliff at Hazelton.

I wasn't even going to bother with this one. After all, we don't have to get them all, do we? But, what the heck, I set up a flight plan, thanks to indications from Paul and others, and then... cheated! I teleported to the right place. How do you do that? With both the Flight Map and Fermin's GMap showing, and with the active flight plan on GMap loaded, move the aircraft on the Flight Map until it appears in the correct location in GMap. Yes, cheating, didn't bother to fly much of this at all. After all, the scenery is not particularly inspiring, is it?

 

 

 

 

Oh, wait, that looks pretty good.

 

Since I was there, did some surface skimming also.

 

 

 

 

Got the darn thing, pretty strange location.

 

 

 

 

Climbing out of the dark gorge in my pretty paint job.

 

 

 

 

Hilarious, running out of scenery! :LMAO:

 

 

 

 

More unfinished scenery.

 

 

 

 

Too bad that we are reduced to flying in these unfinished areas.

 

MGS - Please release the SDK! We will finish the scenery, if you will only let us. B)

 

Best regards.

Luis

 

MGS - Please release the SDK! We will finish the scenery, if you will only let us. B)

 

Best regards.

Luis

 

They're probably doing that right now just for you! You're the first one who figured out how to repaint. Maybe they'll give you some software that will let you hack into the .spb files and .meta files.

I was just about to give up on this one until came across this big ditch. So I followed it the wrong way it turned out for some time. I went to overview and it became clear the direction I needed to go. I took the mustang down into the river gorge until the Aerocache in question appeared! Interesting flight into B.C. once again. Just love the shadows.

 

Steve

Well, nobody can complain that this one was just sitting there at the end of the runway.

 

I took off from Annette Island in the RV-6, flew along the coast down past Prince Rupert to the mouth of the Skeena, then just followed it all the way to the cache. There's another unfinished airport at Woodcock, a big, spooky rectangular clearing in the woods overlooking the river.

 

It was a lot of fun flying through the canyons, a couple of hours I thorougly enjoyed. This AOTD was one of my absolute favorites, and I hope there are more like it coming up soon.

Not happy with these treks into no mans land.

 

Does the properly mapped territory really not have enough interesting sites that we must cross the border into half baked land?

 

At least it was a nice deep river canyon.

One of these days... I might go back to where the AC was with the Icon, land and then come back out while staying on the water! Nothing like taking $125,000 and making it become a giant jet-ski.