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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.

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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.

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Soft Horizons

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 with other sky environment add-ons.

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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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Taxiway Markings 2

Kars Veling delivers new taxiway marks that improve visibility and realism across many airports, and the adjustment keeps the file size unchanged for consistent performance across varying scenes. The author credit remains with Kars Veling.

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Ground Detail

Version 1.0 upgrades the default bump map for the ground surface to a higher resolution, allowing individual blades of grass to become visible. The change is documented by a file named grassv1.jpg, which captures the new visual reference.

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Carrier Operation Package

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 effect with a controller gauge provides feedback. V2.0 adds catapult/arrester zones and a revised HUD, see Upgrade COP V1.1 to V2.0.txt.

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Doherty's Difficult & Dangerous Approaches Volume 1-63

63 variants by Michael Dohetry consolidate into one file, with Philip Wilson handling the compilation. An accompanying DDDA.jpg image provides a visual reference, linking the creators and the collection to a single, factual package for easy reference.

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F-136 Orbital Interceptor

The F-136B concept jet accelerates to Mach 4.57 and relies on hybrid engines that switch to rocket propulsion through a closing iris that forms a rocket bell. A second optional airfile is less powerful, and the model includes spoilerons, vectored thrust elevator structures, and VC-illuminated instrumentation.

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/ FS2004 Crash Damage Enabler

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 with 2002 and 2004 titles. Earlier versions introduce a confirmation dialog, an About option, and a browse-for-folder feature for the 2002 folder, plus a startup message when enabled.

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Fuel Planner V1.0

A fuel planning tool calculates fuel for different aircraft, with a V1.0 designation, and it presents the results in a straightforward, portable format. The accompanying visual reference carries the file name fuelplanv1_0.JPG, and it anchors the concept to a concrete digital artifact.

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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.

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Airport's Chart Viewer v5.0

An aviation-sim utility generates and displays a comprehensive map of taxiways with IDs, gates, parkings, ILS, and runways for any airport in the simulation world. It requires Manuel's Service Pack 3 and credits Manuel Ambulo as author.

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Fuel Planner PMDG 747 v2.0.0.0

A fuel planner for the 747-400 by PMDG anchors this listing within the PMDG lineup, and it remains a focused, self-contained tool that assists with fuel planning calculations and supports straightforward data handling for heavy jet operations.

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Complete with Base Model

Animal Simulation

Ron Jeffers presents three named variants that let you fly a flock of geese, a bald eagle, or sail a killer whale on the sea, with a few save flights included to place you on the scene. The files simulate piloting a plane, pairing animal forms with aerial activity.

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Flight Assistant 2.1

An application also provides a virtual co-pilot for flight simulation enthusiasts, and the co-pilot follows commands spoken into a microphone, while the program works with every flight simulation and credits Timm Linder as the creator.

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Complete with Base Model

Enzo Ferrari Full Package

The 2002 Enzo Ferrari variant offers color options including red, silver blue, and yellow, with source files provided for each color set. Improvements include sounds, a revised panel, and a dedicated driver, while dynamics are tuned for greater speed in drag scenarios, by Jessy Corrales.

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Manual/Checklist - Aero Commander 500

Presented as a PDF-format booklet, this manual covers the startup-to-shutdown sequence, from cold to securing aircraft, listing phases such as Pre Start, Startup, Takeoff, Climb, Cruise, Descent, Approach, and Landing. It is based on the aircraft and panel by Milton Shupe, Scott Thomas, and André Folkers and released as freeware by Werner Schott of Switzerland.

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Complete with Base Model

Colomban Cricri MC15

Renaud Balu models the MC15, detailing an aircraft, a cockpit, a virtual cockpit and sounds, presenting a concise, neutral setup that preserves the core elements and keeps the focus on the MC15's cockpit experience overall.

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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.

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