As I like flying and I like rivers it is nice to combine those. So, a bushtrip following a river. The Columbia River starting high in the Rockies and meandering through Canadian and North American states to end in the Pacific, after 1243 miles. It is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region. The trip takes off from Fairmont Hot Springs a at 2649 feet to be rapidly climbing to 10000 feet the hop over the mountains to one the dams outside the Columbia River area. But enjoyable flying over the mountain ridges. There Is another dam the trip will visit, just outside the Columbia River and then in the river there are 14 dams.

You need to climb to 10000 feet a few times at the start of the trip. After you leave the mountains, you can gradually lower your cruising altitude to 2000 feet. Certainly, when you stay in the valleys.

  • The trip is multilingual. Provided are: French, German, Spanish, Swedish and Brazilian Portuguese. These languages are machine translations. The original language is American-English.
  • The aircraft is the Cessna Skyhawk 172Sp G1000 Kenmore Livery. Not the fastest and in mountainous area not a good climber, but it works. You can change the aircraft to one of your likings with MissionChanger by BuffyGC.
  • After landing you have to set the Parking Brake, shut down the Engine, shut down the Navigation and shut down all electricity (think battery).
  • GPS is available, however when you stay in the valleys than there are some legs where it is nearly impossible to use it. Fly manual with use of the heading knob.
  • Weather is preset to: few clouds but user changeable.
  • The Flight book as added as well as the printed Flight Plan from Little Navmap. Added is a brief tutorial of ProfSC how to set the G1000 when the flight plan is not correctly shown from the second leg on.

The trip is made with LittleNavmap, by Alexander Barthel and BusTripInjector by BuffyGC. Thanks to both of them for their work.

There are a lot addons for British Columbia and Washington State at FlightSim.to. Feel free to use them.

The trip takes 1143 nautical miles in 15 legs.

Happy flying and safe landings