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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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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

Sail Ship Schooner 'Etoile'

She serves as a training vessel for French Navy cadets and bears the Etoile name, with her sister Belle Poule. They sail to Great Britain in 1940 and are listed in the Free French Navy, while a cfg and a .air file courtesy of Mitsuya "Hama" Hamaguchi accompany the craft.

: 2.48 MB
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: 5/5
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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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Military Airshow Manoeuvres

An F/A-18F Super Hornet project by the FSKBT Team presents maneuver sequences described in a word document, anchored to the aircraft’s flight dynamics. Inspired by Farnborough in the UK, the airshow plan targets completion in under 10 minutes, noting real pilots achieve the task in under 6 minutes.

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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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Complete with Base Model

Chicago TrolleyCopter

By Wm. R. Pulick, the Chicago TrolleyCopter merges vintage Chicago streetcar inspiration from the 1940s with aerial capability, allowing it to fly, hover, and float while featuring advanced hidden rotors. The design enables sign customization through a BMP file, adjusting side, front, and roof markings to display a personal name or image.

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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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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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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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TreeGen

TreeGen reduces tree size by forty percent and increases their numbers, producing a denser canopy while the overall file footprint becomes half of the original. All seasons are included, and there is no performance hit despite the smaller file size.

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FS Addon Manager

An add-on manager assigns cockpit panels and sounds to aircraft and installs from distribution ZIP files, with a ZIP Browser to preview contents. It offers an Option Installer to add variants and a Hangar for offline configuration, plus AI Traffic Tools to manage flightplans and a built-in ICAO lookup for 5000+ airports, by Manfred Murer.

: 6.78 MB
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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 Snow/Ice Runways

In snowy areas worldwide, the file replaces default winter asphalt and concrete runways with an icy mix to create more realistic surfaces. Runway numbers remain visible, while the rest of the pavement presents a convincing winter 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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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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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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and FS2002 EFFECTS: Nick's Prop Dust with Control Gauges

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 clay, snow, rain, water, ice, sand, gravel and short grass.

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