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Birds For FS2004

A 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 operations or AI traffic while incurring only a small performance penalty. The geese model is by Joe Binka, and Eric van der Veen is credited.

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10.67 MB
Total Downloads
3.3K
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Modified Airport Lights

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 basis, and marks Poole as the creator of this modification.

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44.35 KB
Total Downloads
3.2K
Star Rating
2/5
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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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784.42 KB
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2.9K
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Realistic Waves

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 to the result. Two image files realwaves1.jpg and realwaves2.jpg accompany the visuals.

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2.19 MB
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2.6K
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Blue Sky Environment Upgrade

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 and dusk states define the scope.

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2.22 MB
Total Downloads
2.6K
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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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194.92 KB
Total Downloads
2.5K
Star Rating
5/5
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Aircraft Shine

An ENVMAP delivers a reflective environment mapping that gives aircraft a new shine and reflective look, closely approximating real polished aluminum, by Tom Knudsen. It is recommended particularly for models made with alpha chanels, expanding their reflective realism.

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606.86 KB
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2.4K
Star Rating
5/5
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FS Camera 1.4 - Aircraft Views Utility

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 changes aspects of the original while preserving the core aim of offering enhanced perspective control.

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458.86 KB
Total Downloads
2.3K
Star Rating
1/5
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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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597.65 KB
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2.2K
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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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598.11 KB
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2.2K
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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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290.88 KB
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2.1K
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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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9.71 MB
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2.1K
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Hot Air Balloon

The Gmax version includes four hot air balloons, foregrounding a quartet of balloon models; Frank J. Petriccione is credited as the creator, establishing the author name alongside the four balloon variants and marking the documentation as his.

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2.22 MB
Total Downloads
1.9K
Star Rating
3/5
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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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660.67 KB
Total Downloads
1.8K
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Modified Sun V2

A brightness upgrade for the sun, Sunmod V2, increases brightness and removes the lensflare option, created by Eitan Daniel and Vincent van Veen. It centers on a suneffect.cfg and a corona1.bmp image, with the corona file interchangeable and a SUN_024.jpg preview included.

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198.39 KB
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1.4K
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C-130 Cargo Air Drop FX

These FX files enable palletized cargo drops from a C-130, and editing the included door-location text in the aircraft.cfg allows similar drops from other airframes. The work is shared with permission from Pierino Primavesi, adapting his JU-52 Luftwaffe variant; further updates are linked at ju52-3m.ch.

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305.18 KB
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1.4K
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Plotting Tutorial

An illustrated 14-page tutorial teaches plotting waypoints, courses, and bearings to any point using the charts inside a flight simulator, and shows how to measure distances in nautical miles along with magnetic or true headings from navigation aids. It also explains obtaining panel.cfg coordinates for gauge installations on any aircraft panel by Glenn Copeland.

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2.73 MB
Total Downloads
1.2K
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World Of Fireworks

Ron Jeffers presents a method to add fireworks displays across the globe using own effects files and the Microsoft bglcomp.exe tool. By navigating to the desired location, recording the lat. and lon. coordinates, and processing them with the utility, users view a show, aided by a fireworks tutorial with two ready-to-go examples.

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527.81 KB
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1.2K
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Rainbow

By Ilya Prokhorenko, a compact rainbow effect unfolds and a sample flight demonstrates it, with a visual reference named rainbow2.gif. It depicts the rainbow effect in a concise, self-contained view suitable for quick assessment and verification.

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343.56 KB
Total Downloads
1.1K
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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.

File Size
8.87 KB
Total Downloads
1.1K
Star Rating
4/5

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