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FS2004-FS2002 FX: Nick's Touchdown and Vortex FX

Three custom scaled FX files cover large-scale military and civilian aircraft, including Airbus models, 777s, 747s, 737s, MDs, 727s, and Lear jets. They perform in all weather conditions, improving wet pavement landings, and users of Nick's Prop Dust may apply them to large prop aircraft on dry runways.

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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.

: 6.63 MB
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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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FSCamera

Version 1.4 of FSCamera, by Gunnar Daehling, lets the tower view follow the aircraft with adjustable distance and angle while it runs in the background, and the setup requires fs9.exe in the main directory with FDSConnection.dll copied to the main folder and a module subfolder; version 1.5 adds a mouse-edge lock for the camera.

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& FS2002 FX: Nick's MASSIVE CRASH FINAL

The wash-out on impact with high-quality video adapters or maximum effects detail is addressed, wake rendering above water for seaplanes and other water-type aircraft is corrected, and new water crash effects are added, expanding the visual impact for crash sequences.

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Complete with Base Model

CarrierOps Full Pack

On a Waikato carrier operation set, three aircraft variants appear: F14B Tomcat, F16C Viper and F18E Super Hornet paired with F-18G Growler. Two extra paint schemas for the F-18E accompany HUD and radar gauges linked to a registered FSUIPC DLL (rev 3.51), authorized by Pete Dowson.

: 26.46 MB
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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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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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Weather 3

A revision delivers 39 weather themes for FS2004, building on two earlier versions and adding 11 winter themes plus 3 miscellaneous variants, with suitability for both VFR and IFR simming. Each theme comprises three files—a .wt file, a .WTB file, and a .bmp—and Cirrostratus and Ice Aloft are omitted, authored by Adrian Shortall.

: 1.82 MB
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3D Contrail effects

By including three-dimensional contrail visuals, this add-on enhances high altitude flight realism, replacing flat trails with depth. It ships backup files containing the original fx_contrail_l.fx, allowing reversion, and the effect preserves a smooth appearance without blocky, pixelated artifacts.

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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 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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Landing Lights Enhancement

Two replacement image files correct the overly white halo cast by landing and taxi lights and address dimmer intensity reported in most cases on the ground. A reference image named fs2k4_ll-tn.gif illustrates the revised lighting appearance.

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Night Environment Upgrade

An upgrade improves night lighting across all default airports and all default cities, and for auto-gen buildings, delivering brighter illumination. Some major airports stay unaffected because they carry their own night and day appearances for certain structures.

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Grass And Trees

By Joerg Geipel, replacement seasonal grass and meadow visuals for all environments and an alternative autogen trees option with a resized variant featuring more palms emerge. This shift replaces the default appearance and adds structure and detail across the landscape.

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Taxiway Markings 2

Kars Veling delivers new taxiway marks that improve visibility and realism across many airports, and the adjustment keeps the file size unchanged for consistent performance across varying scenes. The author credit remains with Kars Veling.

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ChartMap V3

Version3.0 expands a stand-alone utility for flight simulators that stores airport charts and displays them on screen during flight. It creates new charts, prints all procedure charts, and supports Italian and English, by Carlo Chiappisi.

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: 4/5
: 60+

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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