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…

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 cla…

Version 3.2 of the Engine Exhaust System Plus, authored by Martyn Becker, adds heat and shimmer effects for turbofan and turbojet exhaust and introduces an APU effect, with automatic behavior at id…

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…
Base ModelMitsuya Hamaguchi crafts a bus model that includes a driving cabin and interior. The maker, Mitsuya Hamaguchi, is credited with these elements, establishing a concise, factual summary of the item.

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…
Base ModelA comprehensive option provides 5000 flightplans of geese in V formations at various altitudes with worldwide coverage, operating as AI from invisible airports and avoiding disruption to airport op…
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…

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, a…
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 …

By Sascha Rieger, fx_waves, fx_swoosh, and fx_swoosh2 animate a realistic surf effect along most coast lines, with no frame rate impact, and proper speed tunes breaking waves and wash, contributing…

Version 2.0 delivers five sky appearances that cover dawn, morning, day, noon and dusk, aligning with the developer's aim to balance detail and performance by Alex Ranc. Dawn, morning, day, noon an…

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 powe…
Base ModelBy Mitsuya Hamaguchi, the V03 variant shows a virtual cockpit, doors that open, and a cabin attendant in the cabin, reflecting the onboard crew presence. Two images, hovercraft_003.JPG and hovercra…

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…

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…
By Gunnar Dähling, this camera tool moves the control tower view using Visual-BASIC and diverges from a freeware concept by introducing modifications to the basic idea. The developer notes it chang…

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…

Nick Needham expands prop dust and water effects with v2.0, using real-time terrain sensing to adjust dust and wash based on dirt, snow, rain, and surface conditions across diverse aircraft. FX fil…