
An array of carrier-operation gauges and effects equips military aircraft with catapult-launch capability and cable-trap landings, while a meatball HUD guides precise approaches and a SonicBoom eff…

Version 2.0 delivers a world environment enhancement that improves sky visuals and lighting across all dayparts and seasons. The revision corrects prior issues by removing a blue tinge and yellow f…

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…

Developed by Joshua Robertson, a UTC time-sync utility keeps time in step with real-world standards, matching the current UTC or applying a +/- offset for varied flight timing. It also incorporates…

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…

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 …

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,…

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 …
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 simulato…

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 …

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…
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 ma…

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 …

Version3.0 expands a stand-alone utility for flight simulators that stores airport charts and displays them on screen during flight. It creates new charts, prints all procedure charts, and supports…
An aircraft editor lets users add or edit variants and Hangar management lets them handle add-ons off a live installation. LAN View enables virtual cockpits with multiple views, and a Logbook track…

Rene Konrad develops a utility that installs and uninstalls airplanes without overwriting existing files, and it also manages gauges, sounds, effects, flights, or modules. Version 3.6 introduces a …

This free utility enables or disables crash damage for any aircraft, with 2005 updates adding high-speed configuration, a larger format, and improved error correction while remaining compatible wit…

Courseplanner operates as a stand-alone flight planner, handling over 30,000 SIDs/STARs and more than 60,000 points while you use your own airports and planes from your hangar. It monitors AI traff…

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 u…

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…