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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
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: 4

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
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AI Time Table 2

Genixsoft presents a real-time airport timetable tool that tracks your aircraft and AI flights, delivering more accurate departure numbers for up to five flights. It requires SP1 and SimConnect, and marks the first iteration of AITT2.

: 8.52 MB
: 1.6K
: 5/5

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

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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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
: 685

Ultimate Traffic Ailis Installer

An alias installer for Ultimate Traffic enables all AI aircraft to use Traffic Sounds, includes a manual install option for hands-on edits, and the process hinges on purchasing Traffic Sounds to enable full functionality properly.

: 1.54 MB
: 447

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
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: 5/5

FSX/SP2 FSXSave Autosave 1.04

The autosave utility offers configurable options, including Save Interval from 1 to 120 minutes and a limit of 1 to 30 saves. The distribution starts automatically and presents an Options window via the Addons menu; it includes Setup.exe, an MSI installer, a PDF user guide, and a ReadMe.txt, by Glynn Wilshaw.

: 1.34 MB
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: 5/5

Gauge Recover V1.2

A free utility, Gauges Recovery restores original gauge and effect files in less than 10 seconds to fix black screens and missing afterburner or condensation effects caused by deleted or uninstalled add-ons. Version 1.2 adds compatibility fixes for gray textures and automatically updates MSVCP70.DLL and msvcr70.dll in system32.

: 11.44 MB
: 6K
: 5/5
: 1

Banking Camera V1.0

Automatic camera banking engages as the aircraft banks, letting the pilot look ahead without manual panning and maintaining a natural, balanced perspective with coordinated roll. The behavior mirrors head tracking without hardware, by Justin Probert.

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: 5/5

Music Player 1.0001 Downloader

Version 1.0001 of the Music Player downloader, by Steven Logiudice, presents a tool that only downloads the software needed to run a given setup. It references a graphic file named fsxmuspl.gif, displayed with height 113 and width 85.

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Aircraft Editor V1.1

The program computes inertia and jet inlet values for an aircraft and saves them to the aircraft.cfg file by entering basic dimensions, supporting quick tuning of basic performance parameters. A flight tuning editor is included, by Mark Bradshaw.

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Living World

Living World v1.1 functions as an animation tool that leverages Animal and GroundVehicle SimObjects and, via the SimConnect SDK, follows a predefined list of lat/long points in LivingWorld.cfg. LivingWorld.exe is built with Visual Studio Express 2005, using a sample C++ AI Objects and waypoints file as a template, authored by Ron Haertel.

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Yet Another Google Earth Tool

Version 0.93, branded as YAGET, functions as a data interface that links flight data to an external globe-viewing workflow. It saves either a single position or an entire flight path for visualization and can follow the current position in real time, by ROTW.

: 945.83 KB
: 4K
: 4/5
: 3

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.

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Flight Simulation Addon Tracker Utility

By Tobias Wagner, this tool maintains a list of favorite airports and exports the data as a .kml file with folders by country. Users add airports by ICAO using New and Autofill, or manually input decimal latitude/longitude when data is unavailable; it links to Sam High's FSXDB for extra airport information.

: 420.58 KB
: 3.4K
: 5/5
: 4

FSXControls 4.0

An enhanced interface consolidates a comprehensive input controller setup and a hangar aircraft manager, while ChartViewer presents an airport and navaid catalog. The configuration adds Spot Plane camera after replacing the Airframe camera, includes XML gauge scripting, and daily versioning backups for critical configuration files, with a supporting patch FSXCONTROLS402PATCH.ZIP.

: 1.44 MB
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fsxlogbook Utility

This standalone utility reads logbook.bin without editing it, showing planes used, airports visited, and takeoffs and landings, plus flight time per aircraft type. Export to CSV or clipboard uses comma or semicolon delimiters, and it stores the logbook path in My Documents\Flight Simulator Files or Mes Documents\Fichiers Flight Simulator as a simple executable.

: 121.04 KB
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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