Very cool. Thank you. I live a few miles south of an active volcano in Washington. Mount Saint Helens looks pretty slick in FS 2020 as well but it’s not much of a flight compared to what you just laid out.
Well, I have seen the real Mt St Helens… during an industrial training in Portland.
I intended to paraglide in the Toutle Valley during my stay there, but weather conditions were really too strong. I have brought back many pictures and the feeling that this volcano is really impressive… especially when you are in front of the crater opening.
The eruption must have been devastating !
It depended on where you were how devastating it was. I was on the southwest side towards Vancouver. For us it was a giant pain in the rear with only a few inches of ash. But if you were on the east side…well, those folks got hammered with ash.
Paul Newman was going to race a special version of the 280 ZX that year at Portland. It had a V8. The race was cancelled because of the ash so I never got to see the car (or Newman) in person. Bummer
Nice photos. I have a few I took a while back from the observatory back around 2000…maybe 2002 or so.
I will try to in the next future.
I have been flying upon other’s findings for a while. Now I try to find places by myself. I had bad luck in northern Russia a few days ago (nothing great to see, although it looked promising on Google Earth).
I think I will next try the Gobi desert to see if it is worth flying there.
If you like volcanoes, I may be able to do something for you in Chile… just give me a few days.
It’s the middle part of one of the legs I did through Africa, many more pictures here
My jaw was pretty much on the floor for most of that flight, so much variation, it beat the eye of the Sahara for me.
It’s odd how much the detail varies across Africa. I’m currently in Ivory coast and it’s all very poor detail. There seems to be a band of high detail from the Eye of the Sahara and up, which is the same latitude Northern Chad is on.