I am in the general vicinity. I am just south of Vancouver, BC . . . on the Washington State side of the line, in Lynden. No, I don't fly in real life. But when I was a kid, my friend's dad took me up in his single engine cessna something or other. I didn't know anything about planes back then. But that got me hooked on flying a plane. I just never could do it in real life. Then I found FSX and the rest is (virtual) history.
Nice! Is the "outside" as breathtaking as I think it is, based on FSX? I mean, the first time flying around in the PNW area I was just blown away, especially once I started using ASN for realistic weather. I imagine in real life it must be at least 10 times as vast and impressive.
My current mid-life-spoiled-German idea is to try and find some small charter company up there who'd take me on without pay as a kind of intern for a couple of weeks, right-seat copilot kind of thing, to see whether I like that lifestyle as much as I think I would. I'm a PPL-A holder and as such only fly as a hobby, whenever money, wheather and time permit (which wasn't often in the last couple of months...). So I still have the illustion that flying for money is the greatest thing in the world
At least as long as it's small-scale, GA kind of flying that is. I'm not a jet person at all...