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VW Beetle Cabriolet

Represents a late-sixties to early-seventies car model, with two color options, red and blue. The top opens by pressing Shift E, and this two-color car model presents itself as a faithful late-era reproduction worldwide today.

: 2.46 MB
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Complete with Base Model

UFO

A scout ship arrives as Earth braces for an anticipated alien advance. The FSDS-built model by Andy Johnston includes a custom panel with XML gauges and a full virtual cockpit, while the craft misjudges Earth reactions, producing unusual ground handling.

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Night Time Fixes

Three option sets adjust night brightness: darken default lighting for clouds, cockpit, airport grounds, and autogen; dim VASI, Edge Lighting, and taxiway lights. The installer runs via an executable, and a PDF manual provides information and pictures; dimmer/blue landing and taxi lights may not work on some third-party aircraft such as Real Air Marchetti.

: 5.83 MB
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Complete with Base Model

1998 Porsche 911 GT2 R

A test version mirrors its full counterpart, presenting a model with a fully customizable surface appearance now included. The work is by Jessy Corrales, and the project draws inspiration from earlier car addons that started a revolution in virtual car simulations.

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Aviation Weather Information System

HTML pages viewable on a kneeboard provide fingertip access to up-to-date weather in quick-to-digest graphics, version 1.0. Content comes from NOAA and includes a METAR Applet, US National Radar with cloud-top heights, PIREPs for icing, turbulence, and sky condition, plus a decoded and raw TAF lookup tool.

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Complete with Base Model

Container Ships

Five variants are included for the container ship, with a detailed 3D cockpit by Bill Holker. Master image maps are provided by Garry J.Smith, Bill Holker, and Ian Thatcher, and an AI version uses a low polygon count.

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Rainbow

By Ilya Prokhorenko, a compact rainbow effect unfolds and a sample flight demonstrates it, with a visual reference named rainbow2.gif. It depicts the rainbow effect in a concise, self-contained view suitable for quick assessment and verification.

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Aircraft Parking Codes Manager

Version 1.6 of a utility lets you modify the AI aircraft.cfg and the model to align with the FS2004 parking system, using a data set tied to 2004 parking standards. It also adjusts the radius setting of .mdl files to match the ProjectAI parking standards released with this version, by Armando Di Francesco.

: 838.28 KB
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: 5/5
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Complete with Base Model

Satellite

By Ron Jeffers, a satellite behaves at breakneck speed, moving quickly with practically no stall as it climbs to high altitudes. A flight is included up in space, and you can depart from a preferred airport, though ground speed diverges from the space pace.

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Complete with Base Model

Chicago TrolleyCopter

By Wm. R. Pulick, the Chicago TrolleyCopter merges vintage Chicago streetcar inspiration from the 1940s with aerial capability, allowing it to fly, hover, and float while featuring advanced hidden rotors. The design enables sign customization through a BMP file, adjusting side, front, and roof markings to display a personal name or image.

: 1.36 MB
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RapidShot v1.7

RapidShot functions as a lightweight screenshot utility that captures the screen via Print Screen or a hotkey, converts images to JPG or BMP, and saves them into a category. It enables rapid captures and provides integrated image, thumbnail and file viewers to rename, move and delete screenshots, while Time-lapsed mode takes shots at user-defined intervals.

: 3.06 MB
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Complete with Base Model

Eagle - Fictional Craft

The author presents this as their first model, with Hubert Steinbacher credited for the design and a concise note referencing the project’s origin. A graphic links to fEagle.jpg in the /userimages directory, supplying a visual reference for the effort.

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Complete with Base Model

Beta Chevy Corvette

A test version of the 1978 Chevy Corvette presents a visual model and dynamics credited to Jessy Corrales. The project serves as a personal learning exercise, detailing the basic components typical for a Beta phase.

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User Friendly Scenery Design Package

04ScenPk.Zip enables placement of default library objects in a simulation environment using the SDK released by Microsoft in December 2003. It targets users with little or no design know-how and includes a detailed tutorial and instructions by Roger Mole.

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Complete with Base Model

USS Mahan

An enhanced rendition of Jacob Waltz's USS Mahan adapts the original for a newer simulation, featuring a refreshed cockpit, revised surface details, and refined sound files. Ian Thatcher oversees the revision, with credits to Waltz for the initial model and to Garry.J.Smith, Frank J. Petriccione, Phil Crowther, and Rob Barendregt for refinements.

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Screen Shoter v6.0

Version 6.0 of a simple program lets users take screen shots in BMP, GIF, PNG and other formats, enabling quick saves of screen captures in multiple formats. All told, it serves as a compact tool for saving screen captures across available formats.

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The VA Administrator version 5.2

VA administrator v5.2 operates as a local, software-based management tool for virtual airlines, integrating a Pilot Based Pirep System with Operations Centre v5.2. It runs on a local machine with no web scripting required, and provides a virtual bank for equipment loans along with personal pilot files featuring Photo ID.

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Xenon Landing Lights

An all-aircraft xenon light enhancement provides a clearer view of the runway and taxiway, improving overall situational awareness during low visibility operations and aiding alignment during approach. A supporting image at /userimages/xenon_lights.jpg demonstrates the feature.

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New Landing Lights texture

Replacement for the default landing lights relies on about 20 photographs to achieve realism and shows on almost all aircraft sizes. It uses a single bitmap to depict lights across different models, a quirky method that produces noticeably better results than the original, as seen in newligth-tn.gif.

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Complete with Base Model

High-altitude contrail 50 miles long

The configuration enables high-altitude contrails by using the aircraft.cfg EFFECTS section on each jet or propeller aircraft. The temperature threshold is user definable, and the files include a new AI contrail with a revised cfg and an extra AI copy of the default aircraft by Jan Rosenberg.

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