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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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'Thunderbirds' Fireflash v2

An atomic-powered airliner from a 1960s TV series, the Fireflash cruises at Mach 3.2 and FL700 with global range. The model includes an animated undercarriage, taxi and landing lights, splash lighting, plus automatic exhaust and reheat effects, with flight dynamics and lighting by Martyn Becker and design by Brian Douglas.

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FS2004/2002 Unreal Aviation Skywalker Strap-On Helicopter

Two counterbalanced, contra-rotating single-blade rotors power a tiny backpack helicopter, each rotor driven by a 125cc ten-horsepower engine. Rooted in Paul Baumgartl’s 1940s work, Kevin Bryan refines the design with subtle safety changes, emphasizing compact dimensions and dual-engine propulsion.

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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.

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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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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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Tall Ship Bermuda

An element of the Bermuda project, this work credits Ian Thatcher for the Cfg sources and wake effect used to compile all the models. Ron Jeffreys receives credit, and references point to freeware ships, boats, and submarines.

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& FS2002 FX: Nick's MASSIVE CRASH FINAL

The wash-out on impact with high-quality video adapters or maximum effects detail is addressed, wake rendering above water for seaplanes and other water-type aircraft is corrected, and new water crash effects are added, expanding the visual impact for crash sequences.

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CarrierOps Full Pack

On a Waikato carrier operation set, three aircraft variants appear: F14B Tomcat, F16C Viper and F18E Super Hornet paired with F-18G Growler. Two extra paint schemas for the F-18E accompany HUD and radar gauges linked to a registered FSUIPC DLL (rev 3.51), authorized by Pete Dowson.

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Xenon Landing Lights

An all-aircraft xenon light enhancement provides a clearer view of the runway and taxiway, improving overall situational awareness during low visibility operations and aiding alignment during approach. A supporting image at /userimages/xenon_lights.jpg demonstrates the feature.

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Flight Simulator AI Traffic Separation

Armando Di Francesco presents a traffic separation tool that controls inbound flows to an airport by configuring minimum separation, desired separation, and a reduced separation zone, aiming to reduce go-arounds caused by the AI engine.

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Traffic View Board

An AI view gauge file, by Arnt Helge Haland, functions like a board at airports, displaying every AI flight and allowing users to follow a chosen aircraft by clicking its entry in the list. It enables viewing AI aircraft from any view, removes the need to press Ctrl+W, requires FSUIPC.

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Skydiver

A man maintains stable control from high altitudes, then switches to a Parafoil for landing, a transition implemented with FD and design adjustments by Tom Goodrick, as seen in the accompanying image at /userimages/skydiver.jpg today.

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1998 Mercedes-Benz SL600 FULL RELEASE

By Jessy Corrales, a late-90s Mercedes-Benz SL600 concept presents a detailed model featuring full DVC data with reflective rims, surfaces, and mirrors. It includes three rim variations and comprehensive animations such as steerable front wheels, suspension, opening doors, and a movable steering wheel.

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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.

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FS2004-FS2002 FX: Nick's Touchdown and Vortex FX

Three custom scaled FX files cover large-scale military and civilian aircraft, including Airbus models, 777s, 747s, 737s, MDs, 727s, and Lear jets. They perform in all weather conditions, improving wet pavement landings, and users of Nick's Prop Dust may apply them to large prop aircraft on dry runways.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Engine Exhaust System Plus

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 idle and at full throttle.

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