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Feb 14^th, 2010 at 1:08pm

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Mount St. Helens

Thanks for looking.

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #1 - Feb 14^th, 2010 at 1:25pm

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That new baby blue paint job is going to get real dirty in a very short time.

Bob

Camelback Mountain....Looking north from Sky Harbor Int. KPHX Phoenix, Arizona USA

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Reply #2 - Feb 14^th, 2010 at 1:31pm

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Bob70 wrote on Feb 14^th, 2010 at 1:25pm:

That new baby blue paint job is going to get real dirty in a very short time.

Bob

Nah, I'm a lot further away than it looks; and about to change heading. Roll Eyes

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #3 - Feb 14^th, 2010 at 1:46pm

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patchz wrote on Feb 14^th, 2010 at 1:31pm:

Bob70 wrote on Feb 14^th, 2010 at 1:25pm:

That new baby blue paint job is going to get real dirty in a very short time.

Bob

Nah, I'm a lot further away than it looks; and about to change heading. Roll Eyes

I wouldn't bet on it. I remember the last time Mt. St. Helen blew her top. I've got some of the ash my mom sent me that settled on Portland.

Camelback Mountain....Looking north from Sky Harbor Int. KPHX Phoenix, Arizona USA

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Reply #4 - Feb 14^th, 2010 at 4:19pm

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patchz wrote on Feb 14^th, 2010 at 1:31pm:

a lot further away than it looks

58 miles, as the crow flies, from my back porch.

THIS IS NOT A PANAM CLIPPER

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Reply #5 - Feb 14^th, 2010 at 4:43pm

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Nice! I never thought of setting the date to that area. I'll be back in a couple of hours. Wink

Maybe.

Flying with twins is a lot of fun..

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Reply #6 - Feb 14^th, 2010 at 9:13pm

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Steve M wrote on Feb 14^th, 2010 at 4:43pm:

Nice! I never thought of setting the date to that area. I'll be back in a couple of hours. Wink

Maybe.

Wouldn't it be great, if we could set a date and location and go back and witness the event in simulation. But I think the CIA needs to release a lot more powerful alien computer stuff first. Roll Eyes

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #7 - Feb 14^th, 2010 at 9:24pm

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patchz wrote on Feb 14^th, 2010 at 9:13pm:

Steve M wrote on Feb 14^th, 2010 at 4:43pm:

Nice! I never thought of setting the date to that area. I'll be back in a couple of hours. Wink

Maybe.

Wouldn't it be great, if we could set a date and location and go back and witness the event in simulation. But I think the CIA needs to release a lot more powerful alien computer stuff first. Roll Eyes

Well, there are effects such as fireworks that appear on certain dates and times at a particualr location, so if someone created the effect, it could probably be done.

Cool idea for a shot.

Cool

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Reply #8 - Feb 14^th, 2010 at 11:19pm

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you mean something like this.....

http://www.simtours.net/hawaii.php
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Kilauea

Kilauea Map is an active vulcano the islands. In 1983 one of the eruptions started an you will only see the volcano in eruption in Flight Simulator on that year.

Change the time to a night of year 1983. Takeoff from Hilo Intl airport (PHTO), climb and maintain 5000 ft, and fly heading 204 for 23 nm. Return to PHTO on VOR 116.90.

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Reply #9 - Feb 15^th, 2010 at 1:04am

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Yaaaiks! I only fly in safe areas!

nice edit!!

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Reply #10 - Feb 15^th, 2010 at 12:15pm

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Capt.Propwash wrote on Feb 14^th, 2010 at 11:19pm:

you mean something like this.....

http://www.simtours.net/hawaii.php
Quote:

Kilauea

Kilauea Map is an active vulcano the islands. In 1983 one of the eruptions started an you will only see the volcano in eruption in Flight Simulator on that year.

Change the time to a night of year 1983. Takeoff from Hilo Intl airport (PHTO), climb and maintain 5000 ft, and fly heading 204 for 23 nm. Return to PHTO on VOR 116.90.

Actually, I was hoping for something a little larger, able to be seen further away. I posted a shot of that a while back. It's a neat little animation, and it is also in Lynn & Bill Lyons Golden Hawaii.

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #11 - Feb 15^th, 2010 at 3:35pm

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patchz wrote on Feb 14^th, 2010 at 9:13pm:

Steve M wrote on Feb 14^th, 2010 at 4:43pm:

Nice! I never thought of setting the date to that area. I'll be back in a couple of hours. Wink

Maybe.

Wouldn't it be great, if we could set a date and location and go back and witness the event in simulation. But I think the CIA needs to release a lot more powerful alien computer stuff first. Roll Eyes

Since Mt St Helens was such a major event and had happened decades before fs 9 and fsx a simulation could have been put into the software. To bad they didn't. I suppose Aces had thier hands full as it was.
Anyone know if the the geyser, "Old Faithfull" is in fsx? Seems to me it is. I think.

Flying with twins is a lot of fun..

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Reply #12 - Feb 15^th, 2010 at 3:43pm