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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

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
: 7.8K

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.

: 198.28 KB
: 5.3K
: 5/5

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.

: 983.02 KB
: 5.1K
: 2

Landing Lights Enhancement

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 illustrates the revised lighting appearance.

: 175.14 KB
: 5K
: 1

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
: 4.8K
: 5/5
: 13

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.

: 6.63 MB
: 4.5K
: 5/5

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.

: 280.73 KB
: 4.3K
: 5/5
: 1

Complete with Base Model

FS200x T-65AC4 X-Wing and Panel Package

By Thomas B. Beard, the X-Wing Red 5 model tunes to the T-65AC4 specifications, with original aircraft copyright (c) 2001. The T-65 X-Wing Panel v.2.0 with gauges depicts the cockpit interface and maps compatibility notes.

: 2.45 MB
: 3.6K
: 5/5
: 3

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

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

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.

: 3.97 KB
: 3.4K
: 5/5

ChartMap V3

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 Italian and English, by Carlo Chiappisi.

: 2.92 MB
: 3K
: 4/5
: 60+

MyFsGoogleEarth 1.0 - Link Google Earth with Flight Simulator 2004

As a compact webserver, MyFsGoogleEarth links a flight-simulation program with a geospatial viewer, placing placemarks at the current aircraft position, at an estimated position one minute ahead, and for surrounding AI traffic, while offering a continuous follow aircraft view, requiring FSUIPC by Peter Dowson.

: 638.13 KB
: 3K
: 4/5
: 11

World Environment Upgrade version 2.0

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 fog effect, and includes new dawn and dusk sky imagery for greater realism.

: 597.65 KB
: 2.3K
: 6

Complete with Base Model

Jetfoil V03

Made by Mitsuya Hamaguchi, this Jetfoil model features a Virtual Cockpit and a hull that rises and falls with speed changes, showcasing speed-responsive motion and cockpit visibility that define its distinctive compact form and practical handling.

: 1.62 MB
: 2.1K

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.

: 1.32 MB
: 2.1K
: 5/5

Complete with Base Model

Airport Ramp Tractor TG5000

HAUGER Fredo creates a freeware ground-handling model, the TG5000 tractor, that tows regional jets such as the CRJ-200 and mirrors a ramp tractor used at LFSB EuroAirport. It has a fully detailed external model, two tow bars operable via panel light and landing light commands, and a customizable airport map interface.

: 4.55 MB
: 1.7K
: 3/5
: 5

Aircraft Parking Codes Manager

Version 1.6 of a utility lets you modify the AI aircraft.cfg and the model to align with the FS2004 parking system, using a data set tied to 2004 parking standards. It also adjusts the radius setting of .mdl files to match the ProjectAI parking standards released with this version, by Armando Di Francesco.

: 838.28 KB
: 1.1K
: 5/5
: 13

FS2002/FS2004 Aircraft Consistency Check - FSACC v3.2

FSACC lists all aircraft folders and verifies the aircraft's configuration for every selected folder. It explains why an installed aircraft fails to show in the Select Aircraft dialog, why the sound is missing, or why ATC does not call the aircraft correctly.

: 2.22 MB
: 1.1K