Ultralight flight over erupting volcano

[xlentertainment]

did you find any lift there?

[RainJetSprinklers]

Never play with gun powder because you never know when it's going to explode!

[MDHmodder]

are you that guy?

[RainJetSprinklers]

I know him.

[JuniorShaman]

Very nice footage! Hmm, not many volcanoes around here.. Its good we have youtube... ;D

-Peace & Love-

[ekabhakti1]

Thanks for the comment. If you ever want to go see one from an ultralight I can recommend a great pilot. And what a ride.

-Blessings-

[volcanochaser]

Great videos with the ultralight. How high were you from the ground? A friend and I were just there at one of the edges of the a'a flows Oct 6. The channels are up high, so we could not see them.

[ekabhakti1]

Thanks. At some times we were pretty low, maybe 100 feet. At one point a thermal was boosting us at over 1,000 meters a minute. When Mark pulled us out of it the sheer pushed us down much quicker and lower than I would have liked. At that point I told him I thought we could go home because I had enough footage. He said he thought we should make just 1 more run. I agreed, hoping I wouldn't regret that decision. Well, that is the last sequence you see in the River of Lava video. He was right.

[Sagebrusher07]

Wow! What an experience. Was there alot of other air traffic?

[ekabhakti1]

Thanks. No other traffic. The atmospheric conditions that day were very unusual. It was almost like flying through water. There were clounds constantly forming and dissolving around us at all levels. It was sort of like watching water suddenly condense on a glass, only it would happen right in front of us which caused us to fly through a sulfur dioxide cloud once. The vog was so dense they almost closed Volcano National Park for the first time in its history because the air was so toxic.