
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…
Base ModelThe 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 n…

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 transition…

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 t…

An array comprising 110 bitmaps smooths the transition between sky and ground, producing the varied skyscape across scenes. John Cillis receives author credit publicly, and the work may not work wi…
The software reads default BGL, LWM, and VTP files and generates mesh data, land and water maps, and photo outputs, along with LWM masks, Flattens, VTP polygons and lines, Exclude Regions, Exclusio…

Version 3 changes your current sun/lensflare to enhance sunset and dusk ambiance, introducing the third iteration of the effect for improved atmosphere and contrast. The image file lensflare_versio…

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 enhan…

A new real landinglight beam provides a dim, taxi-at-night effect that resembles reference images of landinglights. A 737 reference guides the beam, and it varies with other third-party aircraft be…

Ray Porteous authors a 737-400 guide for Razor Publications that includes an exam to test knowledge and is designed for computer pilots only. When a pilot passes, the system sends an email to the C…

A Greyhound-style coach with two rear axles and one front axle features a practical silhouette and a simple, recognizable profile for quick identification. The archive holds 28 files and remains fu…

These assets replace the existing cirrus overcast layer and allow a thin cirrus veil to sit beneath a regular stratus or cumulus deck, producing a solid overcast cover. A sample image named overcas…

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 …

These FX files enable palletized cargo drops from a C-130, and editing the included door-location text in the aircraft.cfg allows similar drops from other airframes. The work is shared with permiss…
The water discharge effect relies on fx_water_dump.fx and links three smoke entries, smoke.0, smoke.1, and smoke.2 invoking fx_water_dump. In flight, pressing i starts the release, and pilots skim …

A standalone DC-3 based on the default, with three panels and new gauges, simulates Morse A and N signals to determine course. Coverage spans 118 Eastern US and SE Canada stations with approach pla…
Base ModelTwo 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 Intern…

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 appro…

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,…
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…