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Spotter

By Peter Ceyssens, this spotting tool lets observers monitor the active runway from a cockpit view to watch departures and arrivals. Operators choose an airport and its active runway, set a day and hour, and toggle slew-mode with Y to reposition and follow aircraft on final and takeoff.

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Wing Leveler/ForceFeedback Utility

Dave Westbury authors Version 3.1.0 of a specialized configuration utility that edits Aircraft.cfg to disable the default wing leveller and adjust autopilot handling, while inserting or deleting force feedback references to improve joystick feel; it can revert changes, and requires Visual Basic 6 runtimes, with a supporting GIF named ffwlu310.gif.

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FS Texture Replacement Utility

Version 1.0.1 of a utility by Bill Tanner enables replacing image data in the primary image folder and other directories, with an option to back up the original files. It offers a simple workflow for applying changes across multiple locations while safeguarding originals.

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Boat Traffic Viewing

Viewing remains difficult for observers of a boat traffic facility that presents planned vessel movements, and a program by Michel A. Mettling shows the intended traffic with the help of mapping services to visualize today.

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FS Logbook

Danilo Cesar Munis develops the FS Logbook, a straightforward tool to reliably record flight logs and track hours across sessions. A screenshot depicts the FS Logbook main screen, illustrating a simple, user-focused interface with clear controls.

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FSRemote Utility V2.0

Version 2.0 introduces a graphical interface for FSRemote, a remote-control utility via FSUIPC. The archive includes a .NET 2.0 FS-Remote executable, a configuration file, and a Word document; it requires .NET 2.0 or 3.0 and a registered FSUIPC4, with WideClient for remote use, and can view and control aircraft switches, autopilot, radio, attitude, and engines.

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: 5/5
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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.

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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.

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Squawk Code Generator V1.12

This tool generates 4-digit squawk numbers by random selection, excluding 8 and 9, with a maximum of 7777. Version 1.12, issued as SquawkCodev1.12, includes a code guide and an updated method, and Nathan and Richard Hammer of Perth, Western Australia, serve as developers.

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My Traffic X BAW/BMI Airbus Mods

British Midland A319, A320, and A321 variants display British Airways colors on the vertical stabilizer, with atc_airline Speedbird and atc_parking_code BAW. The corresponding image files are A319-t.dds in the My38 folder, A320-t.dds in My08, and A321-t.dds in My13.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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CFG Editor V1.01

Compact utility automatically locates the FSX.CFG file, loads and displays all FSX.CFG items except the [Trusted] section, and is distributed as a stand-alone executable named FSXCfgEditor.exe by TweakFS (Fermin Fernandez).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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