FSX Utilities

Page 3

Sort

Reset

KML Utility V1.10 Beta

This freeware design utility, by Matthew Styles, converts Google Earth .kml files into compatible simulation formats for use in projects. The V1.10 Beta, dated 19 August 2007, introduces Land class tiles and Water class tiles.

: 2.46 MB
: 1.7K

Soft Horizons

Soft Horizons, created by John Cillis, smooths the sky-ground transition using 110 daytime bitmaps and preserves 30 nighttime bitmaps, converted to the required format, and may not work with other sky environment add-ons in some cases.

: 190.74 KB
: 1.6K
: 1

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).

: 667.64 KB
: 929

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
: 703

Universal AI Alias Installer

A freeware installer provides a universal alias capability that lets AI traffic use Traffic_Sounds, a stand-alone program featuring up to 25 fully interactive and directional sounds. A main Traffic_sound Folder must be present for operation.

: 24.61 MB
: 545

Fraps 3.0.3

The app works with games using DirectX or OpenGL, displaying FPS in a corner and enabling benchmarks that measure frame rate between two points. It saves statistics to disk, captures screenshots with a keystroke that names and timestamps them, and records video up to 2560x1600 at 10–120 FPS.

: 1.98 MB
: 11.4K
: 5/5

FS Landing Info Utility

A lightweight tool polls the simulator every 100 milliseconds to display landing performance, producing a landing summary for each touchdown. It includes a Landings Panel for multiple landings and a Realtime Panel with metrics such as Angle of Attack, Pitch, Roll, and Vertical Speed; it requires .NET v2 and a C# compiler.

: 142.7 KB
: 4K

Traffic Sounds FSX Ultimate Traffic 2

An Alias Installer, credited to Alan Constable, accompanies Traffic Sounds and anchors a concise creator attribution to the component's naming. A cover image appears with the item, illustrating the presentation and signaling clarity for catalog viewers.

: 20.73 MB
: 3.6K
: 5/5
: 1

Flightplan Creator V3.0

Version 3 streamlines a workbook that lists all airports with merged names, cities, and states, and includes two spreadsheets to compute distances and generate flight plans for a chosen location. It performs error checks for aircraft and airport entries, derives flight level by halving service ceilings, and uses 160 NM as a VFR threshold.

: 3.12 MB
: 3.5K
: 5/5

Yet Another Google Earth Tracking Tool V0.94

YAGET_X_vn.n.exe writes either a single position or a complete path to KML files, such as test_earth_link.kml and test_path.kml, with each leg roughly 1 NM, and can follow the current position in track mode via a direct link to the active session. 0.94 updates align with the May 24, 2007 release or later.

: 1.11 MB
: 3.1K
: 5/5
: 4

Scruffyduck Scenery Design Engine

John Masterson authors the program, version 090.2624, which reads BGL files from Bglcomp and XML files created by other tools. The interface presents a tree view of contained objects, and a property grid edits their attributes; the program adds or removes elements and compiles result into a working BGL file, marks the first public release.

: 2.04 MB
: 3K
: 4/5

FSXCFG Tool V1.05

A CFG editing tool enables a full editing suite with an audit trail to view and restore previous settings. It supports bulk import, removes old gauges and module references, and backs up the CFG, with full documentation included by Mark Bradshaw.

: 2.06 MB
: 2.9K

Object Placement

Object placement fills areas with items from the simobjects folder, including static aircraft, boats, vehicles, and animals, in a five-minute demo session. Operators select a type, choose an object from a list, enter a heading, and place it; you place add-ons by typing exact title from the object configuration, such as Beach Baron 58 Paint1.

: 5.71 MB
: 2.6K
: 4

VFR Weather Companion

By Jonathan Parle, the weather tool generates weather themes at the click of a button, enabling forecasting and rapid scenario planning. It toggles between northern and southern hemisphere settings to align simulations with regional bias.

: 3.45 MB
: 2.3K
: 1/5

EZ-Landclass 3.01

EZ-Landclass 3.01, by Russel Dirks, lets users reposition landclass and waterclass designations to better reflect vegetation and ground cover in targeted regions, guided by straightforward, project-oriented workflows. The tool requires Microsoft Excel 97 or later.

: 685.81 KB
: 2.2K
: 7

Yet Another Moving Map V2.0

Operating as a LAN-ready tool, it connects a moving map to the program using an included SimConnect.dll and supports JPG maps only. It offers an on-the-fly position fix for non-orthogonal maps and a tracking display for up to 20 AI aircraft, with server and client executables such as YAMM_server_v-2.0.exe and YAMM_client_v-2.0.exe, by Laurent Claude.

: 10.78 MB
: 2K
: 5/5
: 10

Utility--FS9toFSx Migration

The migration utility processes the older version folder and can target several earlier formats. It analyzes aircraft.cfg, .mdl, and .air files to identify required resources, builds a list of references from .mdl data, verifies their presence, and searches for non standard DLLs, by Georges Vinet.

: 338.23 KB
: 1.9K
: 2/5
: 1

Night Vision Mod

By overwriting any existing ENBSeries component, the add-on introduces a green-on-black night vision effect and includes d3d9.dll, enbpalette.bmp, and enbseries.ini in the main installation folder. A panel for a simulated night-vision tube appears under simobjects/yourairplane/panel with readme.cfg guiding panel.cfg, while activation uses SHIFT+F12 and bloom adjusts via enbseries.cfg, Developer Crazieman.

: 544.19 KB
: 1.9K
: 5/5
: 4

AITP-X AI Timeout Patcher

In its alpha release, Andrew Jarvis of JBAI Simulations presents the AITP-X utility, which adjusts AI arrival timing to lengthen the disappearance timeout from 5 minutes to as much as 17 minutes. A related variant is noted as AITP10.ZIP for another implementation.

: 3.23 MB
: 1.8K

FSX/FS Design Studio v3.5.1 FSDSxTweak V1.6

Two operating modes drive this tool: auditing image references and modifying .x content. Auditing reports identify all image references and their counts, while the tweaking mode injects multiple map filenames (diffuse, specular, ambient, emissive, reflection, shininess, bump, displacement, detail, Fresnel), plus environment, detail, and bump scales and dynamic shadows via ShadowMapReady, by Dave Nunez.

: 277.34 KB
: 1.8K