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Real Environment Professional

Sun and lighting enhancements include sun6, corona1, sunglow, suneffect.cfg, and an Envmap that affects reflections. AquaPro 2006 Bright & Dark versions adjust base water color with wave animation and cloud reflections, while Feng Zhu's TreeGen v1.0 adds new trees.

: 26.03 MB
: 11.4K
: 5/5

EditVoicepack 3.1 ATC Editor

An ATC communication editor allows editing phraseology and adding airline callsigns, airports, and aircraft types, supported by a library of thousands of ready-made components. It can fetch new data from a central server and speeds up existing voices for dense traffic environments, by Lars Moellebjerg.

: 1.78 MB
: 7.7K

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
: 7.2K
: 5/5

Rwy12 Object Placer Complete Scenery Library v1.2

Version 1.2 enables slew placement of an aircraft to any coordinate and instant insertion of a 3D asset, a capability credited to Israel Roth and Seev Kahn. It includes 39 libraries with over 1,000 models, distributed as one program file and three object modules; legacy filename rwy12_v1.zip is noted, with enhancements preserving placements.

: 81.76 MB
: 7.1K
: 60+

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.

: 34.18 MB
: 7K
: 3/5
: 9

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.

: 497.72 KB
: 6.7K
: 4/5
: 3

TreeGen

TreeGen reduces tree size by forty percent and increases their numbers, producing a denser canopy while the overall file footprint becomes half of the original. All seasons are included, and there is no performance hit despite the smaller file size.

: 2.65 MB
: 5.8K
: 5

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.

: 4.73 MB
: 5.1K
: 4/5

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.

: 944.46 KB
: 3.5K
: 2

Simple AI v. 1.06

This simple utility generates departure and return flights from default airports and uses any installed aircraft that are configured correctly. It supports generating both outbound and return legs from a range of installed aircraft, by Garrett Hardesty.

: 1.55 MB
: 1.6K
: 1

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.

: 71.92 KB
: 14.2K
: 5/5
: 1

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
: 13.6K
: 4/5
: 8

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
: 8.7K
: 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.

: 491.3 KB
: 6K
: 5/5

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.

: 985.07 KB
: 4.7K
: 5/5
: 13

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.

: 14.81 MB
: 4.4K
: 5/5
: 13

Engine Exhaust System Plus

Version 3.2 of the Engine Exhaust System Plus, authored by Martyn Becker, adds heat and shimmer effects for turbofan and turbojet exhaust and introduces an APU effect, with automatic behavior at idle and at full throttle.

: 239.87 KB
: 3.9K
: 5/5
: 1

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.

: 874.18 KB
: 3.9K
: 2

Nick’s Space Shuttle Landing Challenge, Final Release

The work reworks the Space Shuttle Discovery using NASA-Boeing data and adds a panel, sounds, and landing FX, while enabling water ditch or belly land. It includes 11 challenge flights with kneeboard tips and credits Matthew Moxon for original .mdl, Tom Kellner for a modified panel, and Nick Needham for flight dynamics and crash FX.

: 27.05 MB
: 3.5K
: 5/5
: 33

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.

: 2.22 MB
: 3.1K
: 5/5