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Soft Horizons

An array comprising 110 bitmaps smooths the transition between sky and ground, producing the varied skyscape across scenes. John Cillis receives author credit publicly, and the work may not work with other sky environment add-ons.

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SBuilder

The software reads default BGL, LWM, and VTP files and generates mesh data, land and water maps, and photo outputs, along with LWM masks, Flattens, VTP polygons and lines, Exclude Regions, Exclusion Rectangles, and Objects and Macros. Registration limits features; private registration is free, commercial registration costs Euros 99.95, by Luis Sá & PTSim.

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Real Rain Effect

A zip archive provides a cockpit rain enhancement, mixing speedily falling drops of different sizes with flowing water and wind effects. Bluesphere and Gerrit Kranenbarg contribute the rain effect to improve the cockpit rain experience.

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Keyboard Commands Table

A complete listing of keyboard commands for a 2004 aviation simulation is presented in a portrait-oriented Word document. The ZIP archive includes European A4 and US Letter size versions for printing, and the accompanying visuals illustrate the commands.

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Realistic Clouds for FS2004

High-altitude clouds create a recoloured sky-scape with golden sunsets, clear dawns, and moody storms. It delivers no frame-rate hit due to a small 86kB size and has been extensively tested with no issues, dwndsk04.zip noted, with dawn/dusk effects by Thomas Grillo.

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Complete with Base Model

Traffic View Board

An AI view gauge file, by Arnt Helge Haland, functions like a board at airports, displaying every AI flight and allowing users to follow a chosen aircraft by clicking its entry in the list. It enables viewing AI aircraft from any view, removes the need to press Ctrl+W, requires FSUIPC.

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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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How To Program the FMC Tutorial

A pictorial guide for beginners presents an FMC tutorial with over 80 color shots, illustrating how to program the Flight Management Computer using the 800 series variant of a 737 family aircraft, and explains basic concepts that apply to all flight management systems.

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Replacement Grass Texture

By Julien Robert, a grass-improvement option replaces default ground materials with 512x512 image data encoded in DXT3, balancing fidelity and memory use. Alpha blending at edges smooths transitions, and the result sharpens grass representations at both small and large airfields under varying lighting.

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MyFsGoogleEarth 1.0 - Link Google Earth with Flight Simulator 2004

As a compact webserver, MyFsGoogleEarth links a flight-simulation program with a geospatial viewer, placing placemarks at the current aircraft position, at an estimated position one minute ahead, and for surrounding AI traffic, while offering a continuous follow aircraft view, requiring FSUIPC by Peter Dowson.

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Manual/Checklist Airbus A320-200

An official PDF-format checklist booklet presents a complete, start-to-end workflow for the A320-200, spanning cold start to securing aircraft. It rests on the Airbus A320-200 airframe by Mike Stone with panel work by the AIRPACK project, and it remains freeware authored by Werner Schott of Switzerland.

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Flight Plan Database

Designed by Barrie Hiern, a database keeps track of your flights, presenting a compact, purpose-built solution for flight information management. Its purpose remains to support straightforward handling of flight records, anchored in Barrie Hiern's design and aimed at reliable reference for aviation activity.

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Mouse-As-Yoke Gauge Fly with Mouse

A mouse-controlled gauge provides input for ailerons, elevator, rudder, and throttle across any aircraft. Version 1.0.23, dated September 8, 2004, is by Yury Kuchura and can be configured transparent or invisible, and is intended for notebook use.

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Flight Simulator AI Traffic Separation

Armando Di Francesco presents a traffic separation tool that controls inbound flows to an airport by configuring minimum separation, desired separation, and a reduced separation zone, aiming to reduce go-arounds caused by the AI engine.

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Autoland

Version 2.1 of the autoland gauge provides hands-off autoland capability for all airliners, with a compact 198kB footprint. Martyn Becker adapts and amends the original XML programming by Nick Pike to deliver the feature across airliner types.

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Flight Simulator Scenery Creator

Version 1.5.11 powers a simple, yet powerful graphical editor that lets users augment a flight-simulation environment with elements they design, while offering an intuitive click-and-drag interface and an extensive help system. The approach emphasizes ease of use, with a robust help system supporting new users.

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Realistic Snow/Ice Runways

In snowy areas worldwide, the file replaces default winter asphalt and concrete runways with an icy mix to create more realistic surfaces. Runway numbers remain visible, while the rest of the pavement presents a convincing winter appearance.

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Realistic Touchdown Effect

An enhancement sharpens the default touchdown effect, delivering a clearer visual cue during landings and a smoother transition from flare to touchdown. It remains compatible with multiple simulator versions, spanning older and newer iterations, enabling broader usage.

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FS9 Configurator Version 1.6

A configuration utility accessed by users of a flight simulation program, the tool exposes configuration files such as system, aircraft, saved flights, and graphics. It supports searching, adding, deleting, or editing settings and maintaining comments, while also providing tools to adjust Contrail lengths, remove the Brake message, and set AI Taxi Speed.

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Airline Callsigns

Created by David Dossiere and Mylene Felix, this collection assembles over 800 airline call signs and notes that some ATC callsigns may not work because Microsoft did not include them. It advises using EditVoicePack when available to hear ATC spoken omitted callsigns.

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