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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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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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new sunset textures

Alternative sunset visuals offer a distinct lighting option for a 2004-era flight simulation environment, enhancing ambient tone. The sunset.gif image has a height of 112 pixels and a width of 150 pixels, stored at /userimages/sunset.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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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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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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Modified Airport Lights

An edited halo.bmp light delivers sparkly illumination around airport lights. By Mark Poole, this adjustment alters the halo.bmp asset to refine its appearance, preserves the halo.bmp asset as the basis, and marks Poole as the creator of this modification.

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Dark Cockpit

By Ben Chuchra, this replacement fltsim.flt file yields a cold, dark cockpit at startup with all switches off, and the virtual cockpit view defaults to a 0.64 zoom for a minimal, unobstructed perspective. The listing credits Ben Chuchra.

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Nick's Jet Smoke

A final version of the smoke effect project emerges after weeks of tweaking and testing, incorporating community feedback. It carries a complete list of quality fixes that address dynamic weather usage and frame rate issues seen since the first version, and includes a tutorial to tweak the effects along with the original .xml gauge.

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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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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.

: 3.72 MB
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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.

: 2.66 MB
: 8.8K
: 5/5
: 3

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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Airport Lighting Version 2

Version two of an airport lighting modification adds blue runway end strobes and lead-in lights, with all luminaires sharpened for crisper accuracy. All fixtures are sharpened for clearer visibility, and the work is attributed to Mark Poole.

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FS Addon Manager

An add-on manager assigns cockpit panels and sounds to aircraft and installs from distribution ZIP files, with a ZIP Browser to preview contents. It offers an Option Installer to add variants and a Hangar for offline configuration, plus AI Traffic Tools to manage flightplans and a built-in ICAO lookup for 5000+ airports, by Manfred Murer.

: 6.78 MB
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: 3/5

Complete with Base Model

1998 Mercedes-Benz SL600 FULL RELEASE

By Jessy Corrales, a late-90s Mercedes-Benz SL600 concept presents a detailed model featuring full DVC data with reflective rims, surfaces, and mirrors. It includes three rim variations and comprehensive animations such as steerable front wheels, suspension, opening doors, and a movable steering wheel.

: 3.94 MB
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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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New Water Effects

Original concept comes from Chrisitan H. Halden and Kevin Rangel, and Ashar Khan compiles the result after blending. Two previews display watereffects1.jpg and watereffects2.jpg, illustrating enhanced water visuals across flight simulation environments worldwide, for enthusiasts.

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