There is a thin layer of snow, and the water has some ice cover – environment simulation options like these are set from Environment menu > Environment Settings:įlightGear models several Icelandic volcanoes at multiple activity levels Eyjafjallajökull, Surtsey, and Katla. You’ll notice both craters and calderas on top of volcanoes in Iceland are often capped by glaciers.Ī caldera in the central highlands with a large lake, in the colder part of the year. When magma is expelled from a volcano, the cavities that it used to be in underground become empty and often collapse leaving depressions called calderas. The volcanic desert it sits on is a lava field created from easily flowing eruptions of nearby shield volcanoes: Mount Herdubreid (a table mountain) is a volcano in Vatnajökull National Park, Iceland. The volcanoes you see have been eroded depending on how old they are Iceland does have shield volcanoes, but they are smaller. Shield volcanoes only tend to have magma that flows easily, so they have very shallow slopes (as low as 5 degrees) as the lava spreads far. Strato-volcanoes have periods where the magma coming up is viscous, and eruptions can be explosive – as gasses dissolved in the magma remain trapped. Lava, before it reaches the surface, is called magma. This lava becomes hard before spreading far. Strato-volcanoes have steeper sloping sides, as the lava that comes up often is more viscous for periods of time – it flows less easily, like honey compared to water.

Iceland’s volcanoes are often strato-volcanoes, in contrast to the shield volcanoes of Hawaii – the C172p tutorial airport (PHTO) is located in a town at the foot of two huge shield volcanoes. Volcanic activity at the main crater in Surtsey Surtsey is within viewing distance from Airport (BIVI). An example is the island of Surtsey formed in 1963 – and Surtsey’s two volcanic vents are now modeled with multiple levels of activity in the LTS. View looking over Reykjavík Airport (BIRK) in the capital city of Reykjavík, with buildings, roads, and objects based on OSM data: A land born of fire and iceĪ land of fire, as well as ice, Iceland is still growing, and new parts are still being formed under the dancing Northern Lights (remember to turn Auroras on and watch!). OSM2City buildings compatible with 2020 LTS have improved visuals and render faster. These are available as a separate download. ‘Rainbow’ (“Regnbogi”) sculpture near the Leif Eriksson terminal ‘The Jet Nest’ (“Þotuhreiður”) sculptureįor Iceland there are also buildings, roads, and objects like pylons for the whole country generated from Open Street Maps (OSM) data by the OSM2City project. Keflavik Airport is modeled in detail, including art installations at the airport. Keflavík serves as the international gateway to Iceland, and its 3 km runways were a Space Shuttle emergency landing site. It has both civilian and military terminals. Keflavík airport is the largest airport in Iceland with 10 million people passing through in 2018. Keflavík International Airport (BIKF) is the featured airport for the LTS.

Welcome to Keflavik and Iceland Iceland viewed from space, using FlightGear’s orbital renderer Earthview FlightGear’s 2020.3 Long Term Stable (LTS) release has moved to the world’s newest country, geologically speaking, Iceland.

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