I'm new to sim flying and am trying to see the volcano eruption mentioned in the MS FS2002 pro docs .. I've flown using their flight as it apears on the take a flight
pane and I head oout w/a hdg of 294 .. haven't yet seen anything resembling an eruption...does it take place at a specific time of day?  the date that comes up with the flight is Aug 8, 1983 ...but looking at some web sites on the volcano .. they don't show an eruption happening on that date... 6/29, 7/22, 8/15, an 9/6 are
eruption dates... so any suggestions?

Thanks! ???

Just keep flying forward and going left a bit, you won't see it straight away, but It will erupt

I couldn't find it either until I just started flying around the islands. I put in a night flight that took me across the bottom of the island using a small field at the western end of the island as a waypoint and flying east to land at the airport. It worked fine.!
Come to think of it I only had 400meg then so I might go back for a look in 1.8g.

If your speaking of the Kilauea eruption, yes it does work.  Grab a nice slow Cessna, take off from Hilo, fly along the coast line and you'll hit Volcanoes National Park.  You'll run into Vog (volcano fog) and you'll see the lava trailing down the side of the volcano.  From there you can continue to fly along the coastline heading over the black sand beach, and the green sand beach (one of only two in the world).  You'll hit South Point, who's winds are not accurately represented here, and fly up past Pu'uhonua o Honaunau and Captain Cook before making a soft landing on Kailua-Kona's runway 17...

Air Geko