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Mel Malin develops a utility that transmits FSX position, altitude, track, and ground speed information using Peter Dowson's FSUIPC SDK. The project credits Mel Malin as the author and notes the SDK origin from Peter Dowson.

: 3.11 MB
: 1.1K
: 5/5

Aircrafter V1.5

Designed by Andreas Schwarz, the tool offers an aircraft overview and, in this version, enables editing of aircraft data and thumbnail updates within a redesigned interface. It includes a callsign editor for ATC callsigns, comes with a manual, and lists Setup_Aircrafter_1_5.exe as the installer.

: 1.66 MB
: 1K
: 1

FS Earth Demo Version

An interface links the flight-simulation core to satellite-imagery data, enabling real-time tracking of a flight and saving sessions with adjustable performance and map style. It supports a single-machine setup or a two-computer master/slave arrangement, displays AI and multiplayer traffic, and runs in trial around Anchorage, Alaska for five minutes per session.

: 3.46 MB
: 1K

Navari Utility

Navari offers a compact flight planner/navigation display and autopilot, enabling flight creation via simple clicks and imports from a routing tool. It lets users complete routes on local airfield maps by adding SIDs and STARs, then fly with LNAV and VNAV modes; a beta from Scumari Technologies, 2009.

: 24.57 MB
: 951
: 4

Mission Category Modifier

A utility moves all downloaded content into a single, user-created category, reducing the need to search across default groups and making organization simpler for long-term storage. It downloads and installs to perform this action, and Hugo Vieira receives credit as creator.

: 450.38 KB
: 938
: 3

Logitech G940 Lighting Control Software

Developed by Timo Hollwedel, this freeware utility links eight dedicated switches on the G940 throttle to real-time, color-coded indicators synchronized with your virtual cockpit. It offers 28 events such as Engine Fire and Landing Gear, with green/amber/red states, and allows per-button Off/Green/Amber/Red customization, including multi-aircraft use.

: 764.65 KB
: 930

In Flight Emergencies Demo

Demo version runs with the Cessna 172, while the full edition supports most standard aircraft and many add-ons. It presents events such as vacuum failure and engine fire, includes a Timed Event option for random incidents 2–30 minutes into flight, and notes are written in notepad and editable by the user.

: 9.07 MB
: 919
: 1/5
: 2

Utility AiSort

AiSort v1.0.0.50 is a Visual Basic 6 utility with a runtime requirement that takes TrafficTools style flight plans, sorts them, and converts them into text for a TrafficDatabaseBuilder workflow to produce a flight plan .bgl file. Frank Salter is the credited author.

: 64.4 KB
: 878
: 4/5

Largest_Crash Utility

Grounded in the ASN Aviation Safety Database, this Excel file compiles airplane crash history from 1945 to today. Richard Monnin authors the work, presenting major narratives with accompanying photos, and listing each aircraft by the number of fatalities.

: 43.89 MB
: 874
: 5/5
: 1

Model Scanner

The program analyzes MDLX, MDL9, and MDL8 files, identifies model types installed, and for MDL8 distinguishes those compiled by three SDKs. It scans a selected folder and all subfolders for .mdl files, reports a summary, and saves a per-type log alongside DasModel.exe when logging is enabled.

: 8.84 KB
: 836

Flight Simulation Training Tool

Steve Smith delivers Excel-format three logs that track simulator time, ground school time, and aircraft specifications. The logs work with any flight-simulation format and may be used for training, entertainment, or virtual airline flight tracking, and they include categories such as IFR/VFR and weather-related planning.

: 42.81 KB
: 795

AI Carriers for Flight Simulator X SP1

An efficient tool lets you place and command ships or fleets in the sim, avoiding edits to traffic or mission files. It requires Java JRE 1.5+, SP1 support with SP2 untested and Vista not tested; cruiser and destroyer hulls are included, plus aicarriers.cfg for customization and fleet insertion at the current user position via Shift+U.

: 915.82 KB
: 790

xml2shp Utility

Winfried Orthmann delivers a utility that converts an XML file into a group of shape files for processing with shp2vec included in the SDK. It includes example files, and Winfried Orthmann receives official credit for this work.

: 128.75 KB
: 751
: 1

TweakFS SDK Toolbox V1.1

An integrated toolkit provides a browser for HTML, DOC, RTF, TXT, XML and PDF, plus image formats JPG, GIF, PNG, SWF and BMP, and direct links to 16 key configuration files such as DLL.XML and SimConnect.Cfg. It includes a GUID generator for single or multiple IDs for use with Cameras and requires the SDK SP1.

: 1.04 MB
: 699

TweakFS Menu Mate V1.0

Menu Mate delivers quicker access to more than sixty menu items, reducing the need to drill through multiple layers. The package includes exe.xml as an example, the main executable, a menu.cfg, plus two manuals in PDF and SWF formats.

: 1.65 MB
: 692
: 5/5

Key2Mouse Universal Demo v1.03

The Key2Mouse tool v1.03 maps user-defined keystrokes to mouse actions, enabling programmable controllers to operate software that accepts mouse input for simulated instruments. Developed for a flight simulator but may run in other sims or games, it operates in demo mode with a limit of three macros for ten minutes per session.

: 1.83 MB
: 691

AI Spotter Full Setup 1.0

Operates with an open interface that lets users create traffic, and a demo limits departures to four and arrivals to four; it reads enrou.txt and sched.txt to display aircraft according to those schedules and can call an external executable to populate AI traffic from live schedules, by geniXSoft.

: 2.23 MB
: 687

AirTrack Plug-in V1.4

By Jofre Palau, this version for AirTrack adds support for speeds limits, flight director bars in the PDF, and a VAS selector, while resolving a plane-switching bug. The installer modifies the default gauges file at .../Gauges/MiniPanel.cfg, creating MiniPanel.bak; removing the component with the uninstaller restores that backup.

: 313.05 KB
: 675
: 5/5

FS Live Traffic Alias Installer

The alias installer connects the Traffic_Sounds package to all AI aircraft, enabling sound functionality across the traffic system and ensuring consistent audio behavior. Users must purchase Traffic_Sounds for full operation, and Alan Constable receives credit for the work.

: 6.65 MB
: 654

Sim Network Utility

Sim Network links a flight simulator across multiple computers, using wireless or wired connections to mirror aircraft movements and position on a second machine running the same software via Simconnect. It enables additional views on client monitors and remains a pre-release version with time limitations, with a full copy available by Daryl Lowey.

: 1.04 MB
: 651
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