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I am presently en-route from CYKA (Kamloops) in British Columbia, Canada, and am headed towards CYYZ (Toronto Pearson), Ontario, Canada.This has to be one of the most STUNNING flights I have yet taken inside FSX for the sheer beauty and splendour of scenery at I climb out from my present 17,000 to my assigned FL270.The mountains, river valleys, lakes, towns and cities below the 737's wing tips is truly why I love this hobby so much...and have grown VERY fond of FSX.The scenery on this flight plan is beyond belief!I suggest that everyone load up a 737, make an IFR flight plan starting out with CYKA off of runway 26, with your terminus at CYYZ.Create the flight plan at FL270 and then let 'er rip. Take the full length of the runway before you rotate OR...you risk getting quite intimate with a mountainside! This is most important! USE the canned FAIR WEATHER for your selection...NOT REAL WEATHER. You don't want to miss one second of the flight path's eye candy. Not one mountain top, river, stream, lake...not one! FANTASTIC!Enjoy!Cheers,Mitch

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Hi Mitch,Nice to read your enthousiasm!Enjoy :--)


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I would suggest that if you enjoy the flight out east, that the flight from Kamloops to the west is even more spectacular. I've lived in eastern Canada, central Canada, northern Canada and western Canada. All of those regions have incredibly varied beutiful reagions, but the west totally has captured my heart! I mean, Toronto?!? Those who like it, like it a lot, but those who don't... don't.Download the excellent freeware Victoria+ scenery from the AVSIM library. You can fly from Kamloops to Victoria in a 747, but you will also get slow-motion thrills from the Maule or any other aircraft with good windows. If your system can handle it, a hop from Victoria to Seattle in a DH-2 Beaver is amazing. Mount Baker Overload, right there. Then cruise south along the incredible Oregon coast, and make your way down to sunny California. The default FSX scenery along that route is highly detailed! From LA, San Francisco, San Diego, etc., the world is your oyster! Travel inland to see the Grand Canyon, go south and explore exotic Mexico, head out over to the ocean in a 747 and make the Honolulu run. Or find Albequerque, but don't make a left... make a right turn instead! Jeff ShylukAssistant Managing EditorSenior Staff ReviewerAVSIM

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>Hi Mitch,>Nice to read your enthousiasm!>Enjoy :--)----------------------Afternoon, David! As usual...am having a ball!!!Mitch'er

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>I would suggest that if you enjoy the flight out east, that>the flight from Kamloops to the west is even more spectacular.> I've lived in eastern Canada, central Canada, northern Canada>and western Canada. All of those regions have incredibly>varied beutiful reagions, but the west totally has captured my>heart! I mean, Toronto?!? Those who like it, like it a lot,>but those who don't... don't.>>Download the excellent freeware Victoria+ scenery from the>AVSIM library. You can fly from Kamloops to Victoria in a>747, but you will also get slow-motion thrills from the Maule>or any other aircraft with good windows. >>If your system can handle it, a hop from Victoria to Seattle>in a DH-2 Beaver is amazing. Mount Baker Overload, right>there. Then cruise south along the incredible Oregon coast,>and make your way down to sunny California. The default FSX>scenery along that route is highly detailed! >>From LA, San Francisco, San Diego, etc., the world is your>oyster! Travel inland to see the Grand Canyon, go south and>explore exotic Mexico, head out over to the ocean in a 747 and>make the Honolulu run. Or find Albequerque, but don't make a>left... make a right turn instead! >>Jeff Shyluk>Assistant Managing Editor>Senior Staff Reviewer>AVSIM-----------------------------------Hi Jeff, am presently just 100 miles East of Calgary. As I was clearing the Rockies, and Calgary lay before me, off of my left wingtip below me, lay Banff Provincial Park. FSX renders a great depiction of that deep glacier lake, that is Lake Louise. I earmarked Banff for a low and slow regional flight in the Mooney at a later date. I do have Victoria Plus, but felt like heading East this afternoon. I very much enjoy the Toronto Skyline as you approach near about sunset. With UTX and and GTXehanced (latest version), Toronto alone is worth the price of FSX admission. :)I'll take that slow-and-relaxed down the Oregon Coast sometime tomorrow. I'll be flying quite a bit this weekend so as to avoid the humid 100 degree temps just outside the den window....jeez... All-in-all, a great weekend for flying the FSX skies (smile).I have lived a good portion of my life, down in Phoenix, AZ. I know the Grand Canyon quite well---Bright Angel Trail is my usual path to the riverbank. Oak Creek canyon is where as a lad, I used to throw snowballs at my dad in mid-January, then later getting back down into the Sun Valley, we had a B.B.Q. and pool party. Those were the days-of-glory, lol. If you know Phoenix, I lived just off of Central Avenue, in sight of Camel-back. We then moved out to Fountain Hills. Now, I'm in the Detroit area. I plan to head back to the Sonoran Desert when able to. Well, back to my flight!Cheers,Mitch

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I was just about to suggest flying around in Banff! Possibly the most beautiful areas of the entire sim. Just make sure you take a really slow plane, J-3 Cub or maybe the RealAir Scout. Also, If you enjoyed Kamloops to T.O., try something like Halifax to Vancouver. It gives you the Atlantic Maritimes, Ontario, the Prairies, and finally, the mountain ranges west of CYYC.

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>>If your system can handle it, a hop from Victoria to Seattle>in a DH-2 Beaver is amazing. Mount Baker Overload, right>there. Then cruise south along the incredible Oregon coast,>and make your way down to sunny California. The default FSX>scenery along that route is highly detailed! You ain't just whistling dixie here Jeff... one of my fav's is to stream hop from BC down to Seattle and also hit the Olympics in the default DH-2 on the default sceneryhttp://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/Ya...um=1186179268#1http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/Ya...=1186179279/0#0that was before I was running most of the ground addons we have today

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Nice area. The first day I got FSX (October 06), I flew in the Olympic Mountains of Washington State...you know, south of Port Angeles and out that way....I was blown away...the clouds were hugging in the valleys as I flew by...it looked like a cool pacific northwest scene...sure some imagination required (after all we're not the Holodeck yet) but still it did transport me.RhettFS box: E8500 (@ 3.16 ghz), AC Freezer 7 Pro, ASUS P5E3 Premium, BFG 8800GTX 756 (nVidia 169 WHQL), 4gb DDR3 1600 Patriot Cas7 7-7-7-20 (2T), PC Power 750, WD 150gb 10000rpm Raptor, Seagate 500gb, Silverstone TJ09 case, Vista Ultimate 64ASX Client: AMD 3700+ (@ 2.6 ghz), 7800GT


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>I was just about to suggest flying around in Banff! Possibly>the most beautiful areas of the entire sim. Just make sure>you take a really slow plane, J-3 Cub or maybe the RealAir>Scout. Also, If you enjoyed Kamloops to T.O., try something>like Halifax to Vancouver. It gives you the Atlantic>Maritimes, Ontario, the Prairies, and finally, the mountain>ranges west of CYYC. -----------------------------Thanks Jordan, I'll do just that!BTW, typo...GEXnhanced, not 'GEXehanced'...was typing fast...lol, had to get back to the flight...Mitch

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..Did YOU get a pre-release copy of FSXI too, Geof?:-lol:-lol:-lol:-lol



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I was just trying to decide where to fly to tonight! I think you made up my mind for me. I think I'll take my Air Canada A321 for a spin!!Thanks Mitch!!


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While you're in the area, why not try Castlegar and Kelowna, B.C.Both are very tricky approaches, with offset localizers. Castlegar is one of the strangest instrument approaches in the world, imho.

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Caslegar CYCG is totally crazy, not for the faint of heart. It's right next to Hwy 3 in the mountains, so that the road descends almost onto the threshold of the runway in the valley. When you are driving westbound (the road turns north), it looks like you are on final for landing. Aircraft are supposed fly above the highway, maybe a few dozen feet above the road.Defintely look up Castlegar on Google Maps. If you do so, zoom in until you see close-up detail. Next to the label "Castlegar Airport", you will see an old four-engine passenger aircraft. If memory serves, that aircraft was at one time used to ferry passengers across the American border to the Indian casinos. Since casino gambling is now legal in British Columbia, I'm quite sure Castlegar has its own casino, and that the aircraft has been grounded. I can only imagine what it would be like to ride that thing on take-off or landing: engines almost coming off their pylons and roaring like lions, flaps and slats all the way out making the wings shake like leaves on a tree, mountain cliffs coming at you from any window view. You don't need poker chips to gamble in Castlegar, just try to fly in at night (which as far as I know is forbidden except in emergency).Another poster mentioned flying from Halifax to Victoria. I would suggest starting from St. John's, Newfoundland. FSX does not do a great job with St. John's, as it is much more developed than the sim lets you see. However, the terrain is spectacular. A very, very short flight east will take you to Cape Spear, the easternmost point of land in continental North America. An almost equally short flight will take you west to beautiful Bell Island, home of the famous Papal shrine, as well as a nearby mysterious fireball that struck from the sky. When in St. John's, be sure to eat at Velma's, possibly the best home cooking in all of Canada! St. John's has a modern airport will full facilities. In daylight, it's an easy and pleasant approach. Trick is, with realistic weather you don't see a lot of daylight. You see RDF (Rain, Drizzle, Fog). Zero-visability junkies ought to love St. John's CYYT.Jeff ShylukAssistant Managing EditorSenior Staff ReviewerAVSIM

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