Someone had said here that wherever you look in the Pacific Northwest (PNW), there are (endlessly) beautiful locales and vistas to explore and enjoy...even in our virtual world of MSFS. Today, I was looking up a bit around the Castlegar (CYCG) airport of British Columbia, a region I've virtually explored quite a bit previously via the (FSX-Orbx) version of the regional scenery.

So, I repeated my excursion in MSFS, and I was not disappointed. BTW, there are a fee (handcrafted) airports here by Gaya, the same folks who had provided the freeware airports, I recall, for the Caribbean Update. I lift off CYCG airport northward (towards and past CZNL (Nelson) Airport) while exploring the (mountainous) nooks and corners (hence "hide & seek" in my title), along the (most scenic) Kootenay River Valley.

These are the Kootenay Range of mountains of the Canadian Rockies that you see below in my images. Significantly, Castlegar is situated at the confluence of Kootenay River and Columbia River. The former is one of the major tributaries of the Columbia River, and the latter is the famous river that featured so prominently in the final phase of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, and their westward voyage of discovery. It was the Columbia River that had eventually led them to the West Coast and their first sighting of the vast blue waters of the Pacific Ocean (this river that originates from the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, finds its way westward to eventually empty into also the Pacific Ocean in the state of Oregon).

Please find a set of images from my trip as I explore the beautiful moods of this place via various lighting conditions of the day.

Thanks for viewing...!

Nice set of shots !

cheers 😉

Edited April 15, 20242 yr by pmplayer

It is/was an area pioneered by RTMM originally for me combined with Orbyx scenery -in P3D-all so good that  I still fly it frequently 

MSFS 2020 certainly enhanced the background scenery but oh those RTMM bush strips are so good

xxd09

You took some very nice shots P_7878 while exploring the moods of the day! 🙂

Beautiful shots! 😉 

Edited April 17, 20242 yr by Alaska738

On 4/14/2024 at 11:30 PM, pmplayer said:

Nice set of shots !

cheers 😉

Thanks much, pmplayer...!

 

On 4/15/2024 at 3:31 AM, xxd09 said:

It is/was an area pioneered by RTMM originally for me combined with Orbyx scenery -in P3D-all so good that  I still fly it frequently 

MSFS 2020 certainly enhanced the background scenery but oh those RTMM bush strips are so good

xxd09

Very true...Recall well those RTMM folks and their dedication...they pioneered some of these scenery add-ons for us showing for the first time what's possible in the SIM...

 

3 hours ago, andiflyit said:

You took some very nice shots P_7878 while exploring the moods of the day! 🙂

Appreciated the comemnt, Andreas. Mountains...what the Dr. ordered for this mountain lover ...🙂...

 

12 minutes ago, Alaska738 said:

Beautiful shots! 😉 

Will: Thank you. Glad you liked the shots...!

great shots, and you are correct about RTMM. I am working my way through the flight plans almost every day and love every minute. Pilot support is excellent and personal thanks to Norm Richards who is one of the kahunas at RTMM., not to mention the designers who put together the flight plans and elegant scenery packages.

For those of you who would like to know more and join up, the main web is

return.mistymoorings.com

There is a second website which is part of the experience

http://www.mistymooringsflyingclub.com/index.php/

And, if that is not enough, there is a discord channel.

https://discord.com/channels/412094075542700053/412096082198396928

that's the 411...gotta run and get back to a flight in Colorado.

Sherm

 

 

That's my kind of flying!  Stunning views - I love the pics with the rivers through the valleys.

On 4/17/2024 at 8:40 PM, ryanbatc said:

That's my kind of flying!  Stunning views - I love the pics with the rivers through the valleys.

Thanks, Ryan...! Spoken for all of us...🙂....