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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.

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Modified Sun V2

A brightness upgrade for the sun, Sunmod V2, increases brightness and removes the lensflare option, created by Eitan Daniel and Vincent van Veen. It centers on a suneffect.cfg and a corona1.bmp image, with the corona file interchangeable and a SUN_024.jpg preview included.

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VPN Virtual Pilot Network

1.4us enables access to weather radar, forecasts, METAR, and NOTAMS from a cockpit kneeboard that doubles as a web browser. Virtual airlines can create their own content, and pilots log in with a username and password to access data without leaving the cockpit, by Jared Smith and Nick Schreger.

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World Of Fireworks

Ron Jeffers presents a method to add fireworks displays across the globe using own effects files and the Microsoft bglcomp.exe tool. By navigating to the desired location, recording the lat. and lon. coordinates, and processing them with the utility, users view a show, aided by a fireworks tutorial with two ready-to-go examples.

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Route Editor V2

The route editor handles PLN files, letting you edit existing routes or create new ones. It saves routes as VFR or IFR and supports Direct GPS, Low Altitude Airways, High Altitude Airways, and VOR to VOR routing, by Jim Cooper (Simshed).

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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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Reality XP FS2004 tweaker

An instructional piece explains how performance parameters in a flight simulator relate to computer components and influence performance, showing that adjusting the relevant parameters to match specific hardware components enhances the flying experience across hardware configurations.

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Complete with Base Model

Lufthansa Airport Bus

Lufthansa operates an airport bus at Frankfurt's EDDF, a real vehicle equipped with lights and a control panel. Its presence on the field highlights typical ground operations around the terminal and taxiways for daytime service.

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Catering Truck Replacement Textures

Most airports worldwide host four BMP files that accompany night and day visuals for a catering truck sporting Lufthansa Sky service branding and Gategourmet. It targets the default Landmark trucks and remains compact, with a file size around 2 MB.

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AI Geese

By Joe Binka, tools and technical notes address AI traffic interactions as Canadian geese populate the sky, focusing on how wildlife affects traffic flow. The guidance rests on practical AI traffic know-how and shows an image named geese.gif.

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EZ-Landclass Version 2.00

An Excel-based tool lets users reposition landclass and waterclass mappings across two editions released in 2002 and 2004, enabling addition of small towns and correction of vegetation or ground cover in targeted areas, by Russel Dirks.

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Complete with Base Model

FS2004/2002 Unreal Aviation Tandem Aerofoil Boat

By Kevin Bryan, this wing-in-ground-effect craft serves recreational use in sheltered waters. It remains inches above the surface, requires calm waters of slow rivers, lakes, and estuaries, and is outpaced by larger WIG designs that need around 400 tons to cross oceans.

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ETAV LOGBOOK 1.0.1

This freeware tool registers your flight using aircraft data, delivering reliable inputs for preflight study and route estimation within a simple interface. It computes fuel needs and the descent point, supporting efficient planning across typical commercial operations.

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Complete with Base Model

Nasa Space Challenge Package

Two flyable aircraft accompany this offering: the Space Shuttle Discovery, enhanced with three loadouts (clean, SRB's, External Tank), a virtual cockpit, and a realistic panel, and a flyable International Space Station. It remains freeware and offers flights at the NASA Space Center in Cape Canaveral, FL, with credits to Randy Shoemake and others.

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SelectFx 4. Crash Effects Generator

You can select up to 44 ground and water crash effects, organized by type such as blast objects, craters, dirt/dust, fires, concussion flashes, shockwaves, and smoke. A Min/Max emitter density control and adjustable magnitude per type, plus quick Save/Load of setups, let users tailor and preserve favored configurations.

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and FS2002 EFFECTS: Nick's Prop Dust with Control Gauges

Nick Needham's gauge and effects system senses terrain contact or flight over diverse surfaces and adapts prop and rotor wash dust and water effects accordingly. It responds to dirt, dry mud or clay, snow, rain, water, ice, sand, gravel and short grass.

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Cool Effects Pack

By Thomas Moger, multiple effects for aircraft appear in this file, and a graphic named Shootingstar.jpg is included to accompany the content. The author is identified as Thomas Moger, reinforcing the association with the listed multiple effects for aircraft.

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Complete with Base Model

FS200x T-65AC4 X-Wing and Panel Package

By Thomas B. Beard, the X-Wing Red 5 model tunes to the T-65AC4 specifications, with original aircraft copyright (c) 2001. The T-65 X-Wing Panel v.2.0 with gauges depicts the cockpit interface and maps compatibility notes.

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Kneeboard Web Browser

An in-flight kneeboard provides quick access to the Net during long flights, offering a simple way to stay connected while airborne. The image SchShts_002.jpg accompanies the kneeboard, with height 112 and width 150, pulled from /userimages/SchShts_002.jpg.

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Complete with Base Model

Stargate Goa'uld Death Glider 2, Heru Class

Version 2 marks a two-seat alien fighter with a battle-scarred airframe and a virtual cockpit. It includes an air.file upgrade for smoother flights, an opening canopy, retracting transport rings, glowing Zatt cannons, and a magnetic hover field landing gear, credited to William Ortis of Lionheart Creations Ltd.

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