I remember the Iran / Iraq conflict as I was a young teenage expat brat near Dhahran in 1983-1984. 4 Saudi F15’s with burners lit scorched over my house in Al Fanateer at 5:30am one morning as I was getting ready for school (it was a fair distance to Ras Al Ghar and schools start early there). I can’t exactly remember but around that time an oil tanker was hit by Iran off the North of Abu Ali island and it gave the living room windows an almighty shake.
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Gosh… I finally got it ! But I still don’t see the relation with Scottish people !
The place is Aden, Yemen. Sight is from Qasr Al-Maashiq, looking west. Now I see the “crater hint”.
Too much difficult, this one 
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“Theduck” deserves a “De Niro” from BA. That was good, very good.
Lots of awesome attempts too, much fun to all who tried.
Monsieur Le Canard, a vous de jouer.
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Standby for a riddle explanation.
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Distinctive fault lines - likely granite / hard rock seen on the left side.
Alpine mountains - not glacially smoothed - with uniform height - estimate c. 2.5k-3k feet above base.
Well connected, rural area with many small roads.
Feature of interest lower-right central. Unlikely military - perhaps scientific, not secured.
Evidence of fluvial (if not glacial) deposits, quite fast run-off - incisive flow shown, some ancient meanders didn’t sustain.
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Aden was in the 50’s and '60’s strategically important to the British Empire before the jet age of travel really took hold. Long-haul flights to the colonies in the Far East such as India, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia & New Zealand etc would refuel there (or in Egypt / Iraq / Iran) before continuing East.
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OK, I only could use two out of five hints : the crater and the median distance line between Edinburgh and Singapore… the reason why it’s been so difficult !
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There is a divided multi-lane highway visible, running from lower left to upper central - the orientation of the diamond highway intersection indicates a country that drives on the right, with the steering wheel on the left (USA style).
This territory is quite arid. What appears to be foliage is I think shadow mis-interpreted by AI. That reminds me a bit of the Denver area. I also think the base altitude of the terrain is fairly high. I’d push a first guess towards the Altiplano. I only ever lived near proper mountains once - that was Colorado a while back.
Very well done. That moment when you KNOW YOU WON…that’s actually so satisfying.
Bow River, Alberta. Just North of Morley.
According to google maps that is a rodeo centre.
As to the previous riddle that was next level hard I agree. Was it too hard? I don’t generally consider any puzzle as too hard, just a bigger challenge, but some are definitely beyond me.
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I get the feeling the next one is going to be ‘next level’…maybe a zoomed image of a blade of grass or ‘a random wave on the ocean’ to really confuse everyone haha.
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I need to fly later today to create the next challenge so maybe you could unintentionally influence it…
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You’re right, well done !
Up to you…
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A bit of a warning on this one. That’s how it looks in the sim obviously, but on Google maps and also from the sim world map much of this area is flood plain and not blue water. This pic shows some quite broken water masking.
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My dad once had to make an emergency autorotation there, onto Morley Flats. I don’t know if it was a power on or off auto, but he said he was pretty high when he experienced the problem because he had climbed up to get through the mountains. He had a bit of time to pick a landing site. I think he said he landed in a field across the fence from the highway.
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Bonaire😍 lovely place.
Well Bonaire has the flamingos for sure, but it’s not the right location. It does have other similarities with the current challenge but is on the wrong continent and a long way off.
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Oh shoot, i missed😅
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