(IMPORTANT ADVICE: The areas covered by this bushtrip suffer some bad default image quality, which is why I highly recommend using the MSFS2020 Map Enhancement Mod and the provided ArcGIS satellite imagery source. This is the best option for remote regions in Russia. If you don't use this mod, you will fly over many offline textured parts and this is not enjoyable and navigable at all. Using the Map Enhancement Mod is super easy. It's just two clicks every time you open MSFS. Just make sure to open the mod first before launching MSFS. The screenshots show ArcGIS material so you can see its very beautiful with this option. Google Maps is also bad in this region so stick to ArcGIS.) 

The Altai Mountains are known as the Golden Mountains due to their natural beauty. After we have traveled through the southern parts of the West Siberian Lowlands on the last part of the series, we will now enter a more challenging region with narrow valleys and high altitudes. The Republic of Altai marks the Russian part of the high mountain area of the Altai, also known as Great Altai. The other parts are located in China and Mongolia, as well as Kazakhstan. On our journey we will also touch these borders. Prepare for some longer flights since there are not many airports in the region except from the main valley area along the Katun River. After our adventures in the Altai we will make a detour through the southern part of the Kuznetsk Basin, the famous Siberian center for coal mining and we will also fly to the mountains of the Kuznetsk Alatau before heading back to the Ob River where our journey started to visit the cities of Barnaul and Novosibirsk. As always on my bushtrips you won't just fly from A to B but I will also give much information on the cities, the history of Russia, the characteristics of the landscapes, the infrastructure etc... When this series is finished, the whole route will be almost 70.000km long, splitted into 20 parts. So if you are only interested in certain regions, you can skip the parts you dont want to fly, so that everyone get's what he/she wants.

Places you will visit on this Bushtrip among others:

- the highest peak of the whole Altai Mountain region Mt. Belukha

- the Katun & Bashkaus river valleys, serving as the main settlement areas in the mountains

- the Border Triangle of China, Russia and Mongolia at the Tavan Bogd Massif

- the Ukok Plateau at the border to China and Mongolia

- Lake Teletskoye, the popular and scenic tourist destination

- the Kuznetsk Alatau Mountains at the border between Kemerovo Oblast and Khakassia

- the Kuzbas, Siberias largest coal mining region

- the Siberian metropolises of Barnaul and Novosibirsk on the Ob River.

Federal Subjects covered on this Bushtrip:

- Altai Krai

- Altai Republic

- Kemerovo Oblast

- Republic of Khakassia

- Novosibirsk Oblast

To avoid misunderstandings: This Bushtrip series is about Russia, a country that is currently engaged in a war of aggression with Ukraine that violates international law. The trip takes place on Russia's internationally recognized territory and includes historical facts that depict significant events in Russia's history, but not current events. This content is primarily intended to educate and entertain people, who are interested in geography, history and the post-Soviet hemisphere. The largest country in the world may never have come to terms with its past, resulting in imperialistic efforts, but that is no reason to drag Russia's geographic beauty into it, in my opinion. In the future I'm sure I'll address other post-Soviet countries, but with the war going on in Ukraine, plus the ongoing Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict, I didn't want you to fly over towns and villages that look completely fine in the simulator, but were actually bombed to pieces and I'm pretending nothing happened...

Flight Length: 2606km

Flight Duration: 07:25

Number of legs: 7

You will fly in a Cessna C208 Grand Caravan, the perfect aircraft for this route. Welcome aboard!! If you want to change the aircraft you can do it via the developer mode -> Windows -> Aircraft Selector

You will also be able to change the time & weather via the default toolbar according to your liking. Default is Live Weather & 1-2 hours passing by with each flight

I have also added TTS for waypoint info with copilot voice so it feels like there's someone in the cockpit telling you where to fly to. (only functional with English language, for other languages turn off Text to Speach in the sounds menu).

The trip includes auto-translations for several languages.

For the perfect experience I highly recommend some scenery and improvement mods, the more you install, the better the experience:

FREEWARE:

MSFS2020 Map Enhancement Mod by derekhe

We Love VFR Region 3 by PuffinFlight

Novosibirsk Landmarks by Boris09

Novosibirsk Tolmachevo Airport by xflight

Barnaul Airport by xflight

INSTALLATION: Just download the .zip file, unzip it and drag and drop it into your MSFS community folder. You will then find the Bush Trip in the Activities -> Custom Content menu. Everything works just like the default bush trips.

A big thank you to the guys from BushTripInjector and Little Navmap for the easy way to create bush trips without having to be a coding genius by myself :)