Here are 130 flights for the final third of Canada, the western section. This comprises three provinces; Saskatchewan (SK), Alberta (AB), and British Columbia (BC), and three territories; Northwest Territories (NT), Yukon Territory (YT), and Nunavut Territory (NU). 

Canada's newest territory, Nunavut, was carved out of the Northwest Territories in 1999. It is the home of the Inuit, the Aboriginal people of Arctic Canada who originally inhabited that land.

Of all of Canada's provinces and territories, Nunavut is the largest in area, however, it is 
the smallest in population ... 28,000 in 2001.

In addition, there are eight "Portal Flights" for entering and departing Western Canada.

The two files included in this zip file are the flight descriptions and the FSN files for use with FSNavigator, version 4.x.

The flight-description file, you will note, is a PDF document. If you do not have Adobe's free PDF reader, download it from here:

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readermain.html

One Important note on the flight descriptions. The magnetic courses shown in FSNavigator for the northern latitudes of Canada are not reliable. Reliable magnetic courses are specified in the flight description document. 


FSNavigator Files ... unzip the west_canada_FSN.zip file and extract the fsn files to:

c:/program files/microsoft games/flight simulator 9/modules/fsnavigator/plan.

All 130 flights were flown and tested with FS2004. Hopefully the flight descriptions are thus in pretty good shape, including specified altitudes. The flights should be equally OK with FS2002 and probably FS2000. If something is amiss in any of the flight decriptions, please notify DC-3 Airways.

Scenery ... Western Canada contains many mountain ranges. Those who wish to enhance their flight experiences should consider mesh scenery for Alberta, British Columbia, Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut. Search either FlightSim.com or AVSIM for appropriate mesh scenery.

It is strongly suggsested that you fly these flights using Real Weather. It intended that all flights be flown in the daytime and in VFR. Many of the airports are unlighted and also not approved for IFR approaches.

There are many beautiful routes in the Western Canada flight schedule. I hope that you enjoy them. 


Charles Wood
June, 2004




