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Flight Dynamics Tutorial

Bob Chicilo presents a PDF that marks the final edition of a guide on adjusting flight behavior, with added items and clearer explanations for earlier material. The document stays focused on practical tweaks and keeps guidance aimed at readers seeking precise performance adjustments.

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FS98 - FS2K4 FS Real Time v1.77

Developed by Joshua Robertson, a UTC time-sync utility keeps time in step with real-world standards, matching the current UTC or applying a +/- offset for varied flight timing. It also incorporates Dennis Thompson's World Time Zones v3.0, which reduces time-zone errors seen in recent software versions.

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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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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).

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Complete with Base Model

Container Ships

Five variants are included for the container ship, with a detailed 3D cockpit by Bill Holker. Master image maps are provided by Garry J.Smith, Bill Holker, and Ian Thatcher, and an AI version uses a low polygon count.

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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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Complete with Base Model

Satellite

By Ron Jeffers, a satellite behaves at breakneck speed, moving quickly with practically no stall as it climbs to high altitudes. A flight is included up in space, and you can depart from a preferred airport, though ground speed diverges from the space pace.

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Complete with Base Model

Lufthansa Airport Bus

Lufthansa operates an airport bus at Frankfurt's EDDF, a real vehicle equipped with lights and a control panel. Its presence on the field highlights typical ground operations around the terminal and taxiways for daytime service.

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EZ-Landclass Version 2.00

An Excel-based tool lets users reposition landclass and waterclass mappings across two editions released in 2002 and 2004, enabling addition of small towns and correction of vegetation or ground cover in targeted areas, by Russel Dirks.

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Complete with Base Model

FS2004Macross VF-1S Valkyrie

Series No.19 hosts a plastic model that depicts Roy Fokker's Special of U.N.SPACY, based on the Japanese animation Super Dimension Fortress MACROSS. It can transform into three forms—Gerwalk, Fighter, and Valkyrie—with a limitation, and an image labeled VF-1S_Gerwalk.jpg accompanies it.

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Complete with Base Model

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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Flips version 1.1

Flips functions as a small utility that renders flightplans in 3D, helping users confirm waypoints align with exit landmarks. Version 1.1 reads three variations and eases loading of flightplans edited in an earlier workflow, with Michael Rook credited as the creator.

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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

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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Complete with Base Model

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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Realistic Touchdown Effect

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 simulator versions, spanning older and newer iterations, enabling broader usage.

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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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and FS2002 FX: Nick's A-I JET Exhaust with Control Gauge

By Nick Needham, engine heat shimmer effects for the A-I jet fleet appear after push-back and during taxi to the active runway. The display captures jets in motion around an airport, highlighting heat distortions as they roll toward takeoff.

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How To Program the FMC Tutorial

A pictorial guide for beginners presents an FMC tutorial with over 80 color shots, illustrating how to program the Flight Management Computer using the 800 series variant of a 737 family aircraft, and explains basic concepts that apply to all flight management systems.

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