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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.

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Inflight Music

Eight programmable switches drive MP3, WMA, WAV, and MID playback from anywhere on the computer, with an explorer-style interface to select tracks and set loop or single playback plus adjustable volume. A setup for the default B737-400 panel includes a gauge by R.L. Clark and credits David 'Opa' Marshall as compiler.

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Complete with Base Model

Hovercraft V03

By Mitsuya Hamaguchi, the V03 variant shows a virtual cockpit, doors that open, and a cabin attendant in the cabin, reflecting the onboard crew presence. Two images, hovercraft_003.JPG and hovercraft_006.JPG, accompany the listing, providing visual context for the configuration.

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Complete with Base Model

Independance Day Package

Four ID4 Destroyer ships hover over New York, London, Midway, and Prague, creating an aerial tableau. Each destroyer contains two airports, one on the tower roof and one inside the beehive, aligning with the ships' geometry and supporting cross-city visual context.

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Tree X Tree enhancement

TreeX, v3.0, presents photorealistic trees across all four seasons, including a vigorous winter, as designed by Aime Leclercq for broad virtual environments. Images are sized 1024x1024 and kept frame rate friendly to maintain smooth operation in diverse scenes.

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Rainbow

By Ilya Prokhorenko, a compact rainbow effect unfolds and a sample flight demonstrates it, with a visual reference named rainbow2.gif. It depicts the rainbow effect in a concise, self-contained view suitable for quick assessment and verification.

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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

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.

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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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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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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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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.

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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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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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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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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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Improved Contrails for FS2004

Thorsten Reichert provides an enhanced version of the contrails-fx, (c) 2005. The original trails are too short and not very realistic, and this update seeks to improve realism by making AI-traffic resemble authentic real patterns.

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Asynchronous Aircraft Strobes Effect

Strobe lights on all aircraft flash together by default globally, a uniform behavior. By adjusting several default effects, this synchronization loosens and the lights flash randomly, yielding a markedly more realistic effect, by Scott Gridley.

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Kneeboard Web Browser

An in-flight kneeboard provides quick access to the Net during long flights, offering a simple way to stay connected while airborne. The image SchShts_002.jpg accompanies the kneeboard, with height 112 and width 150, pulled from /userimages/SchShts_002.jpg.

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