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FS2004/FSCOF/FS2002/FS2000 Courseplanner 3.C.8, stand alone Flight Planner

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 traffic and multiplayer in real time, allows import/export of flight plans and adventures, prints maps, and can pause near any airport.

: 26.27 MB
: 2.3K
: 4/5
: 9

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.

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TCAS 2 radar screen

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 DirectX 7 or higher to operate.

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FS2004/FS2002 Easy Object Designer

Version 2.2.79 enables users to design and produce 3D objects and generate API files for design tools, while also producing SCM files for a design utility. It supports creating trees and night-lit buildings, includes a complete installation, and is freeware by Matthias Brueckner.

: 1.28 MB
: 2K

Overcast Cloud Package

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 overcast-1.jpg is shown at /userimages/overcast-1.jpg for reference.

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3wire Aircraft Carrier Simulator

Threewire v2 operates as a carrier operations add-on, enabling launching and recovering any aircraft aboard a carrier. The add-on requires FSUIPC (registration not required) and the .NET Framework v1.1, with authorship credited to Rhys Eddy.

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Traffic Changer V610

Version 610 expands the AI management toolkit with a new flight plan merge utility, a multiuse flight plan editor, and improved reporting of existing plans. It includes 59 default AI aircraft, 5,500 airports, and a sample flight plan, and compiles BGL files via the included TTools, with VB5 runtimes required.

: 2.05 MB
: 1.6K

Route Editor V2

The route editor handles PLN files, letting you edit existing routes or create new ones. It saves routes as VFR or IFR and supports Direct GPS, Low Altitude Airways, High Altitude Airways, and VOR to VOR routing, by Jim Cooper (Simshed).

: 111.21 KB
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AutoSave

AutoSave, by Pete Dowson, provides automatic flight saving and writes STN files at regular intervals, maintaining a 10K footprint that preserves flight progress and helps you retry a crashed landing or recover from other problems.

: 8.87 KB
: 1.1K
: 4/5

Fly By v2.0

An option adds fly by view in tower mode and introduces AI fly-by choices; users can pick planes from a list and display them in fly by or spot plane views, cycle through with keyboard commands, and apply horizontal and vertical randomization with two modes, constant and variable distance, by Valery Stenin.

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Frame Rate Fix

Patch by Eddie Batista delivers a frame-rate improvement for flight simulations, focusing on steady, clear performance adjustments. An accompanying image references FPS_Patch_FS9.jpg, located at /userimages/FPS_Patch_FS9.jpg, offering a visual cue for the patch’s presence and scope.

: 71.92 KB
: 14.3K
: 5/5
: 1

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.

: 291.62 KB
: 6.6K
: 3/5
: 8

FS9 Configurator Version 1.6

A configuration utility accessed by users of a flight simulation program, the tool exposes configuration files such as system, aircraft, saved flights, and graphics. It supports searching, adding, deleting, or editing settings and maintaining comments, while also providing tools to adjust Contrail lengths, remove the Brake message, and set AI Taxi Speed.

: 202.21 KB
: 4.5K
: 4/5

and FS2002 EFFECTS: Nick's Prop Dust with Control Gauges

Nick Needham's gauge and effects system senses terrain contact or flight over diverse surfaces and adapts prop and rotor wash dust and water effects accordingly. It responds to dirt, dry mud or clay, snow, rain, water, ice, sand, gravel and short grass.

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Complete with Base Model

High-altitude contrail 50 miles long

The 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 new AI contrail with a revised cfg and an extra AI copy of the default aircraft by Jan Rosenberg.

: 91.97 KB
: 4.1K
: 1/5

Cool Effects Pack

By Thomas Moger, multiple effects for aircraft appear in this file, and a graphic named Shootingstar.jpg is included to accompany the content. The author is identified as Thomas Moger, reinforcing the association with the listed multiple effects for aircraft.

: 95.76 KB
: 3.8K
: 5/5
: 6

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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: 3.6K
: 5/5

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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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+

PMDG B737NG Advanced Operations Tutorial v2

By Timothy Metzinger, a version 2 guide for the B737NG outlines advanced operations under the PMDG label. The concise reference emphasizes practical procedures and system-level guidance for the aircraft, offering targeted insights within a compact, creator-led format.

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