I have flown with my former VA not a DC3, but a Lockheed Constellation in the Andes. As the Connies were able to get up to 25.000 feet, it was a little more secure, and yet a pair of times, at 23k+ feet MSL we found ourselves dangerously close to the ground anyway.

I remember I had landed on an airport, thereabout (can't recall which one), when, from landing to successive take off I install the world mesh I use to this day... and as a testament ot the low quality of FS9's default mesh, at the take off, the easy way in to this airport I found arriving was nowhere to be found. Had to make my way between scary peaks and found very little clearance between my wingtips and a hard place until I managed to nurse the old lady above 18K feet...

To do a series of flight with the DC3 or the (military grade engined only) C46 in the same zone... that would be interesting, given I manage to find local sectionals for VFR flight first, though.

The plane on the clip is kept in tip top shape (easier thing to obtain in a non-pressurized plane like that), has a plasma TV (sci-fi thing in the 30ies, when that plane was built) for passengers entertainment, and even a something of a even more rare quality... the cockpit is not barred from the passengers zone with 32 different locks only half of which operable from the passengers side too... how strange to see this nowadays...

...probably because there are no USA-related sensitive zones in the range of the plane?