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Visiting the Galapagos Islands

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I had tried this in P3D, forget it. Later I tried it in XP11 with orthos, better, but still underwhelming. When I tried it now in MSFS, I didn’t expect much. Surprise, surprise, but see for yourself.

I take off from Isla San Cristobal

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First, I wanted to explore this horseshoe shaped island, but then I spotted something far more interesting right in front of my nose 😉

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A very interesting island is Isla Isabela, because of its six coalescing shield volcanoes that make up the island. I was never allowed to tour one of them, but now in MSFS, this is different. This is Aeroporto General Villamil on Isabel island

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Our first volcano: Cerro Azul, at the south-west end of Isabela

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Volcano Sierra Negra at the south-east end

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The Alcedo volcano in the center of Isabela. Its most recent eruption was in 1993, but due to its remote location it was not recorded until two years later

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The Darwin volcano, located south of volcano Alceno. It has a large central caldera, nearly 5 km (3 m) in diameter and 200 m deep (700 ft)

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Wolf volcano, also known as Mount Whiton, is the highest peak in the Galapagos Islands and reaches 1,710 m (5,610 ft). The volcano was named after Theodor Wolf, a German geologist who studied the Galapagos Islands in the 19th century. It’s located in the north of Isabela and offers us quite a steep drop. Amazing

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La Cumbre on Isla Fernandina is the most active volcano of the Galapagos Islands and its peak has an elevation of 1,476 m (4,842 feet). It began erupting again in April 2009 and on June 16th, 2018, after a period of heavy seismic activity, it erupted again. The volcano started erupting one more time on January 12th 2020

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Isla Wolf, a small island, also named after the German geologist

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That interesting island must have a name too, but I forgot to write it down

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A few tiny islands just north of Isla Fernandina

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Thanks for viewing and I hope I didn’t bore you too much with this little exploration of mine

Any attempt to stretch fuel is guaranteed to increase headwinds

My specs: AMD Radeon RX6700XT, AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, 32GB RAM, 34" monitor, screen resolution: 2560x1080

Quite a lineup of craters to marvel at. Your explorations are never boring!  🙂

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Great shots Bernd! 😉 

The scenery in this desktop flight simulator is unreal, it's so good I never cease to be amazed.

Jack Sawyer

A nice tour of an area that is hard to visit, Bernd. Probably we will never get there... At least we have your interesting narration!

Cheers, Gerold

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Hardware: Intel i9-13900K @ 4.2 Ghz, BENQ EW3270U (3840*2160), 32 GB RAM DDR5-6000, Gigabyte Gaming OC Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB, Samsung 980 Pro M.2: 1 TB (Win 11-System), Samsung 870 QVO SSD: 2 TB (MSFS), 2 * Samsung 850 EVO SSD: 1 TB (P3D 4.5 HF3) & 500 GB (spare). Scenery / Add-Ons: Lots of commercial & freeware sceneries. Plus ActiveSky_MSFS - and for P3D: FS Global Mesh 2010, ActiveSky_P3Dv4, ASCA, EzDok v3, Pro-ATC/X and REX 4 Texture Direct.

 

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Many thanks my friends for your kind comments, it's much appreciated !

Any attempt to stretch fuel is guaranteed to increase headwinds

My specs: AMD Radeon RX6700XT, AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, 32GB RAM, 34" monitor, screen resolution: 2560x1080

A glorious and well narrated tour of the islands Bernd.

Your posts are never boring and a great introduction highlighting the evolution of flight simming.

2 hours ago, VH-KDK said:

A glorious and well narrated tour of the islands Bernd.

Your posts are never boring and a great introduction highlighting the evolution of flight simming.

Another great pun Martyn!

Jack Sawyer

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