Photos I Took Of St Helens

Great pix -- thanks for sharing them!

BTW: Get Photoshop. You can completely remove the window/atmospheric/ash
haze that is obscuring the mountain in your photos with a single click.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"C J Campbell" wrote in message
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"Ben Jackson" wrote in message
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NW_PILOT wrote:
I have about a hundred more But here are a few sucked having a 5 mile
TFR
today but ohh well.

"...AT AND BELOW 13000 FEET MSL TO PROVIDE A SAFE ENVIRONMENT DUE TO
POSSIBLE VOLCANIC ACTIVITY."

We wouldn't want to endanger the volcanic activity. Boy, they really
closed the barn door after the horse bolted.

There was a TFR in 1980, too. The TFR is not protect the volcano, it is to
protect you. Personally, I am coming around to the opinion that they
should
just let anyone in there who wants to see it, including airplanes, as long
as they sign a waiver that they will not sue anyone in the event that they
run into each other or are killed by the volcano.



Yea like the idiots that are going the wrong way around the mountain maybe
the FAA should have not made the traffic pattern counter clockwise

"Nomen Nescio" ] wrote in message
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From: "NW_PILOT"

I have about a hundred more But here are a few sucked having a 5 mile TFR
today but ohh well.

ohh well.... If it had blown you would have, at least, been memorialized
with your
own chapter in the Darwin Awards.

Darwin Awards I don't think so!!!! If it did go and it if it did take me out
at leased I'd go doing something that I love "flying airplanes" and if it
dose not take me out it would be 1 great sight. I have been dead once
already.




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Darwin Awards I don't think so!!!! If it did go and it if it did take me out
at leased I'd go doing something that I love "flying airplanes" and if it
dose not take me out it would be 1 great sight. I have been dead once
already.

Ooookaaay - that explains why you changed your name a few months ago

Tony
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Tony Roberts
PP-ASEL
VFR OTT
Night
Cessna 172H C-GICE

Scott D. wrote:

I dont know, maybe I'm just having a bad day.

Indeed. You missed that this is the ideal location for a Presidential
debate.

- Andrew

LOL! Excellent! I wondered if you'd made it out before the TFR came up.
We were coming in from Pullman yesterday and Portland was fogged in, (10
a.m.) so rather than wait for it to clear up in the Dalles we steered for
the mountain.
http://www.integraonline.com/~foo.ba...rOct372dpi.jpg

Stayed in contact with McMinnville radio for NOTAMS, TFRs, etc. They said
"Follow the advised traffic pattern and don't fly into steam or ash." Duh.
We steered away from the mountain and back around to the south side when we
saw that the visitor's observatory parking lot was empty. That could only
mean they evacuated it, so it was time to go.

Before anybody preaches about how dangerous the mountain is, I'm a native.
I remember all 5 major eruption in 1980 and have jars of ash scraped off our
vehicles and driveway. And it ain't like we flew an airplane into space
today or anything. ;

-c

"NW_PILOT" wrote in message
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I have about a hundred more But here are a few sucked having a 5 mile TFR
today but ohh well.

http://www.warflying.net/helens/helens1.jpg

http://www.warflying.net/helens/helens2.jpg

http://www.warflying.net/helens/helens3.jpg

http://www.warflying.net/helens/helens4.jpg

"C J Campbell" wrote in message

This is not Hawaii. Explosions -- even the small ones -- on these
mountains
are measured in terms of many atomic bombs detonating all at once.

Your plane would look pretty silly with a rock the size of a Volkswagen
sitting in the middle of it.

The supersonic shockwave and 700-degree air would remove the airplane long
before the rock did, but you're probably not saying anything we don't know.
My father-in-law rode Hueys for the air national guard during the eruptions
in 1980.

On Sunday morning (
http://www.integraonline.com/~foo.ba...rOct372dpi.jpg) there were
no TFRs or NOTAMs, just advice to stay clear of ash and steam.

-c

Scott D. wrote in message
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Then when the damn thing blows, that will be just that many less
stupid people in this world we would have to deal with.

I dont know, maybe I'm just having a bad day.

Everybody dig a foxhole and don't come out. Don't fly anywhere, 'cause
that's dangerous too. When a small plane crashes, that will be just that
many less stupid people in the world...

Maybe I'm just having a bad day.

-c

"C J Campbell" wrote in message

Actually, there are levels, and we are at level 3 right now. Level three
is
volcanic eruption imminent or in progress.

Note the news helicopters flying around it all morning. It's erupting right
now.

-c

"C J Campbell" wrote in message

Actually, there are levels, and we are at level 3 right now. Level three
is
volcanic eruption imminent or in progress.

As if this moment, the news is saying they've suspended aircraft activies
out of Portland International below 13,000 feet. This is a NOTAM I've got
to record!

-c