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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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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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Ultimate Night Environment

A worldwide enhancement to nocturnal lighting improves visibility for buildings, bridges, landmarks, vehicles, and all major airports after dark everywhere. This worldwide improvement, credited to Maurice Roenick, targets the listed categories and spans the globe.

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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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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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FS2000/FS2002/FS2004 Super Flight Planner 3.0.3

By Alessandro G. Antonini, the planner presents a moving map drawn with vector layers or bitmapped imagery, offering zoom, pan, rotation. It supports DP-STAR and Airways, imports from Radar Contact and MS-GPS with XML and CSV formats, and lets users create simple plans via a Wizard or manual plans with optional autorouting.

: 3.91 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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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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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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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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FS Weather Engine 1.0

Visitors gain the ability to generate additional weather themes and choose them from the program’s weather menu. The work presents a straightforward, creator-credited tool designed to expand atmospheric options, with Gunnar Daehling listed as the author.

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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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TCAS 2 radar screen

An implementation of TCAS 2 version 7 aligns with FAA guidelines and detects airborne intruder traffic, signaling warnings visually and verbally. It requires FSUIPC, the Visual Basic 6 runtime, and DirectX 7 or higher to operate.

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Complete with Base Model

Sailable Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier

Two models arrive with accompanying panels, forming a compact dual-model setup that includes a basic 2D cockpit. Fletcher Class Destroyer materials by Phil Crowther underpin the build, while Javier Fernández supplies original static FSDS files.

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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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Plotting Tutorial

An illustrated 14-page tutorial teaches plotting waypoints, courses, and bearings to any point using the charts inside a flight simulator, and shows how to measure distances in nautical miles along with magnetic or true headings from navigation aids. It also explains obtaining panel.cfg coordinates for gauge installations on any aircraft panel by Glenn Copeland.

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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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Frame Rate Fix

Patch by Eddie Batista delivers a frame-rate improvement for flight simulations, focusing on steady, clear performance adjustments. An accompanying image references FPS_Patch_FS9.jpg, located at /userimages/FPS_Patch_FS9.jpg, offering a visual cue for the patch’s presence and scope.

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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.

: 36.03 MB
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