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Flight Trip Chooser V2.0

Version 2.0 lets users pick a departure airport and define a distance range to display destinations from more than 24,000 airports, with a spreadsheet program and internet access needed for detailed information. Detailed airport data such as runway information and maps appear with one click, while weather radar and map views accompany the flight area.

: 11 MB
: 1.8K

TweakFS Aircraft.CFG Editor V1.0

An editor for direct aircraft.cfg edits, it loads the Cessna 172 Aircraft.CFG by default and automatically locates the SimObjects\Airplanes folder. It loads and displays all Aircraft.CFG items using AcftCfgEditor.exe, by TweakFS (Fermin Fernandez), with version 1.0 dated May 25, 2007.

: 671.66 KB
: 1.8K

Virtual Correct Gauge Placement

The file places the default gauges into the correct GAUGE folder, aligning display with the intended placement. A correction by Brian C. Selb improves gauge visibility for aircraft developers and file downloaders, ensuring the default gauges display properly.

: 18.97 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.

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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.

: 1.55 MB
: 1.5K

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.

: 229.17 KB
: 1.4K

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.

: 1.87 MB
: 1.3K
: 5/5

MH's AI Traffic Pack

Four utilities by Michael Heise drive AI traffic tasks: aitchk.exe scans for missing aircraft data, aitmod.exe updates configurations to current standards, ait2x.exe converts an older traffic format to a newer one, and aitmrg.exe locates missing data and re-installs AI aircraft from a source folder; ICAO_dc.lst and a deluxe TrafficDatabaseBuilder edition support ait2x.

: 1.48 MB
: 1.2K

Reduce AI

ReduceAI, version 1.0, reconfigures AI traffic flight plans to better respect the user's traffic density settings. It notes that many AI traffic offerings lack granularity options, leaving traffic at full or none, by Henning Schaefer.

: 106.13 KB
: 1.1K

To ForeFlight IPAD Apps Interface

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

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.

: 1.8 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
: 946
: 4

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
: 829

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
: 691
: 5/5

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
: 682

FSXControls Utility V2.1

Three modules comprise the offering: a GUI multifunction module, the EQgauges.dll chart viewer, and the EQmodule.dll GhostMouse input driver. Version 2.1 adds in-flight GhostMouse configuration, optional scripting for gauges, and the ability to catch internal events, with freeware availability for non commercial use by Eugene Motorny.

: 977.01 KB
: 681
: 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
: 648

Module Tool X V0.4

By Alexander Brand, the utility edits the module configuration files exe.xml and dll.xml, requiring the .NET 2.0 framework. Version 0.4, dated 7 February 2008, fixes saving issues tied to file formats and addresses problems with the Explorer Bar.

: 2.54 MB
: 491

TweakFS Zip Utility V1.0

TweakFS Zip operates as a stand-alone utility that unpacks and creates zip archives without a third-party program, and it presents a graphical tree view of the folder structure. It auto-detects the target folder location, offers preset destinations, and can add comments to Zip files.

: 964.32 KB
: 401
: 5/5
: 1

FSXControls Utility V2.0

By Eugene Motorny, this trio of modules comprises a GUI multifunction component, a chart viewer gauge named EQgauges.dll, and a control input handler EQmodule.dll that implements GhostMouse. EQmodule.dll serves as the GhostMouse driver, enabling input mapping and additional tricks for cockpit controls.

: 935.79 KB
: 393
: 5/5
: 5