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The Great Yukon Adventure - Part 1 - From Atlin to Carmacks - Wishmaster - 08-21-2025 AWPIREP AW640 DHC2 20250821 CYSQ-CEX4 148 The Great Yukon Adventure - Part 1 Today I will start a series of flights that will follow the Yukon River all the way from Atlin, British Columbia in Canada to the Bering Sea. Sourcing from the Llewellyn Glacier in the Juneau Icefield, British Colombia; The river heads north from Atlin Lake then turns west through Canada and Alaska, before issuing into one the world's largest river delta - The Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta. Flowing past hamlets, settlements and homesteads - through glacial icefields, mountains, valleys, lakelands and wetlands A VFR flight plan for FS2020/2024 covering the entire route can be found here on flightsim.to: >>> Download VFR flight plan: Land of the Midnight Sun - Great River Journeys - The Yukon <<< The whole route is 1,371 NM. I don't know how long it will take to complete all those flights, I might take some detours here and there. Using the live weather function of FS2024 I need to check the weather before each flight, like in real life. I will be using the DHC-2 Beaver for the entire flight. Wanna join me? So let's go! Hop on board and let the adventure begin! Around 5:40 a.m. and the Beaver is ready to got! Soon we'll be taking off from Atlin. Atlin Lake. Impressive landscape! Climbing to 4,000 feet. Atlin Lake. Mount Minto on the left, Black Mountain on the right. Next we'll be flying towards Little Atlin Lake and Marsh Lake on our way to Whitehorse. Approaching Whitehorse. Alaska Highway crossing the Yukon River in the background. ATC is requesting us to climb to 5,000 feet in order to cross their airspace. Landing lights on is good practice. Sun rising very slowly in the east. Passing Whitehorse, the airport straight ahead of us. The brightly illuminated spot is where the SS Klondike, a National Historic Site is located. Approaching Lake Laberge. Heading further northwest on our route.  We pass Hootalinqua, where the Teslin River merges into the Yukon. Settlements of Big Salmon and Little Salmon passing below us later on. Rain shower ahead. Approaching Carmacks after 1.5 hours of flight. Visibility in the rain is drastically reduced, the sun behind our back does not help. I made it through the rain shower (seen on the right edge of picture) and position the Beaver on a right-hand downwind for runway 10 at Carmacks airport (CEX4). Parked and secured. First leg of this adventure completed! RE: The Great Yukon Adventure - Part 1 - From Atlin to Carmacks - JoaoPaz - 08-22-2025 Wonderful adventure, Markus!! I'm looking forward to the following legs. I'll be doing something close to this coming February - The Yukon Quest and the Iditarod coupled to together I wonder what we'd say if someone showed us these screenshots in the old days of FS98!!