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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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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

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.

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: 5/5
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BglAnalyzeX

Version 1 beta presents as a disassembler for .bgl files in the new format, producing structured data through an XML representation. The XML output can be compiled with bglcomp, and Winfried Orthmann serves as the author.

: 548.1 KB
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: 4/5

FSXControls Utility V3.0

The control suite provides a GUI with input setup, hangar aircraft management, and a chart viewer that loads airport and NAV aids information via an index image. FlexyCamera supports Cockpit, Airframe, and Free roaming modes with an almost unlimited camera count and global plus aircraft-related configurations, and saves produce a .bak backup.

: 1.27 MB
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: 5/5
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AI Spotter V1.1.6

An AI traffic scheduler reads enrou.txt and sched.txt to display arrivals and departures for a chosen airport, and it can assign multiple variants of the same aircraft type and airline when available. The shareware release imposes a limit of four departures and four arrivals, by Vincenzo Mercolino.

: 1.48 MB
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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.

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: 5/5
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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
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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
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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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: 5/5
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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
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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.

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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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logbookeditor

Version 0.2 beta of the logbook editor enables decoding and editing of the logbook file format. The current format is binary and undocumented, supplanting earlier editable text files, and the project is in the public domain.

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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.

: 24.57 MB
: 945
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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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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.

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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.

: 1.65 MB
: 690
: 5/5

AutoSaver 1.0

Automatic flight saves occur at a user-defined interval, with Omar Damiani credited as the creator. The approach centers on automatic preservation of flight progress using a straightforward interval-driven mechanism that requires no user input at startup.

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AircraftTweak V1.1

A configuration tool operates on the aircraft.cfg file, enabling changes to parameters and, through AircraftTweakUI, installation and removal of visual modifications on your system. The latest version improves the source-reading algorithm during installations and adds a command to list all installed aircraft, plus commands to create and apply binary patches, by Dave Nunez.

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