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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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Night Time Fixes

Three option sets adjust night brightness: darken default lighting for clouds, cockpit, airport grounds, and autogen; dim VASI, Edge Lighting, and taxiway lights. The installer runs via an executable, and a PDF manual provides information and pictures; dimmer/blue landing and taxi lights may not work on some third-party aircraft such as Real Air Marchetti.

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EditVoicepack 3.0

By Lars Moellebjerg, EditVoicepack adds missing callsigns, aircrafts, and airports, delivering 800 new callsigns out of the box. A centralized upload system keeps these additions accessible to all users, while it requires Microsoft .Net Framework 1.1 and does not support the 2002 edition.

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Aviation Weather Information System

HTML pages viewable on a kneeboard provide fingertip access to up-to-date weather in quick-to-digest graphics, version 1.0. Content comes from NOAA and includes a METAR Applet, US National Radar with cloud-top heights, PIREPs for icing, turbulence, and sky condition, plus a decoded and raw TAF lookup tool.

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Modified Obslight Effect File

Replacement files design blinking lights on towers, etc., so they become visible at a greater distance. In use, the aim is to improve how visible those blinking indicators become from longer ranges for varied observers.

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Complete with Base Model

Vtol Solotrek XFV Police Airport Craft

Designed to function like a helicopter, the craft provides a birds-eye view while remaining economical to run. It stays easy to maintain and store, and the creator is listed as J R Lucariny, with a referenced image file named 156VtolPLA.jpg.

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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.

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Aircraft Parking Codes Manager

Version 1.6 of a utility lets you modify the AI aircraft.cfg and the model to align with the FS2004 parking system, using a data set tied to 2004 parking standards. It also adjusts the radius setting of .mdl files to match the ProjectAI parking standards released with this version, by Armando Di Francesco.

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Complete with Base Model

FS2004/FS2002 1951 VW Beetle

The 1951 Volkswagen Beetle, known as splitwindow for its rear design, presents two variants: a European version with German plates ABG Altenburger Land, and an American version with Washington registration. Additional identifiers originate from Alaska, California, Florida, New York, and Texas.

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FS2002/2004 FS Flight Tracker V7.1.0

A flight tracker records aircraft type, registration, and flight number, departure and arrival times, fuel, weights, block times, while logging origin and destination ICAO codes, names, and weather. Times appear local or GMT and fuel measures include lbs, gallons, or kilograms; shareware offers a ten-use evaluation plus a $14 registration by K. D. Lovell.

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Catering Truck Replacement Textures

Most airports worldwide host four BMP files that accompany night and day visuals for a catering truck sporting Lufthansa Sky service branding and Gategourmet. It targets the default Landmark trucks and remains compact, with a file size around 2 MB.

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Complete with Base Model

FS2004/FS2002 Unreal Aviation SWing SST

An unconventional slew-wing supersonic transport prototype delivers STOL performance and Mach 2 capability. The idea traces to Dr Voght of Blohm und Voss via NASA-Dryden, and Kevin Bryan credits it as a simple, quick-development project.

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Wintery Haze FX

The program adds a wintery ground haze, echoing blowing snow you would see while driving down a highway in a snow storm. A reference image uses the file Winter Haze.jpg, located at /userimages/Winter Haze.jpg, guiding the visual cue.

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User Friendly Scenery Design Package

04ScenPk.Zip enables placement of default library objects in a simulation environment using the SDK released by Microsoft in December 2003. It targets users with little or no design know-how and includes a detailed tutorial and instructions by Roger Mole.

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Complete with Base Model

FS2004/2002 Unreal Aviation Tandem Aerofoil Boat

By Kevin Bryan, this wing-in-ground-effect craft serves recreational use in sheltered waters. It remains inches above the surface, requires calm waters of slow rivers, lakes, and estuaries, and is outpaced by larger WIG designs that need around 400 tons to cross oceans.

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Virtual Keyboard FreeKeys

Freeware concept designed to operate without a hardware keyboard, it anticipates a later shareware option named FltKeys. An installation program is included, and a reference image freekeys.jpg accompanies the project, by Tim Mandeville, serving as a visual cue.

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Complete with Base Model

USS Mahan

An enhanced rendition of Jacob Waltz's USS Mahan adapts the original for a newer simulation, featuring a refreshed cockpit, revised surface details, and refined sound files. Ian Thatcher oversees the revision, with credits to Waltz for the initial model and to Garry.J.Smith, Frank J. Petriccione, Phil Crowther, and Rob Barendregt for refinements.

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SelectFx 4. Crash Effects Generator

You can select up to 44 ground and water crash effects, organized by type such as blast objects, craters, dirt/dust, fires, concussion flashes, shockwaves, and smoke. A Min/Max emitter density control and adjustable magnitude per type, plus quick Save/Load of setups, let users tailor and preserve favored configurations.

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Complete with Base Model

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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Realistic Clouds for FS2004

High-altitude clouds create a recoloured sky-scape with golden sunsets, clear dawns, and moody storms. It delivers no frame-rate hit due to a small 86kB size and has been extensively tested with no issues, dwndsk04.zip noted, with dawn/dusk effects by Thomas Grillo.

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