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Using The Jetway Feature

An adjustment guide explains how to enable jetway interaction for three aircraft variants, detailing fixes for the Boeing 767-200, Boeing 767-400, and Boeing 777-200 (front and middle doors), and it emphasizes practical adjustments to achieve reliable jetway engagement during gate procedures, by Justin N. Sen.

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C-130 Props

By Bob Rivera, this alternative four-blade propeller suits Captain Sim's Lockheed C-130 Hercules, replacing the standard configuration with a distinct blade arrangement. The CS_C130 designation guides this modification, tying the blade change to that aircraft family.

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Wilco E-Jets Checklist

A Word .doc checklist accompanies the payware Wilco E-Jets Embraer 170/190, presenting a compact reference for two variants. By Louis Hermsen, the file aligns with the Embraer E-Jets 170 and 190 variants, offering a concise note.

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AI Sounds

You wrap renamed wavs into a file named soundai after renaming sound.cfg to soundai.cfg, then create a cab file and place it under Traffic_Sounds\Jets. In the A321’s default folder, the cfg sets an alias to ..\Traffic_Sounds\Jets\AI_Airbus_321\soundai, and you rename the folder to AI_B777 to match your chosen variant.

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Manual/Checklist Learjet 60

A PDF-format booklet presents a Learjet 60 workflow from dark cockpit start to shutdown, covering pre-start, engine initiation, taxi, takeoff, climb, descent, and landing. Werner Schott writes the guide, drawing on Blaisdell, Brisard, May, and Pardy’s Learjet 60 project, whose panel and aircraft design mirror real-world procedures.

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Airports Merged With ICAO Data Bases - Update 2

The compilation, by Gary McDonald, presents a complete list of all airports in the airports file, augmented with data from ICAO databases. The compilation records airport names, cities, states, and countries for each record and aligns information across jurisdictions.

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Acceleration FLOLS Trailer V1.0

FLOLS trailer model serves Field Carrier Landing Practice, featuring a working Optical Landing System and arrestor gear for naval ops training. Real FCLP omits arresting gear, but the extra gear is included for fun, with credit given to Sylvain Parouty.

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Default Airbus A321 Engine Smoke Effect

Tom Tiedman provides an Airbus A321 smoke effect, including a fx_smoke_f6.fx and two SMOKESYSTEM lines, smoke.0 and smoke.1, with coordinates -8.232, -18.606, -3.301 and -8.232, 18.506, -3.301, documenting a compact setup for visual cues, visible.

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London-Melbourne Race 1934 By KLM 'Uiver'

Jaap van Hees documents the 1934 MacRobertson Air Race by KLM's DC-2 PH-AJU 'Uiver', detailing flight plans, weather conditions, and flight situation files (*.flt) for every leg. Maps of aerodromes used for stopovers and per-leg flight descriptions accompany race and competitor information, in Dutch and English.

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Patch

Callsign EXPRESS EditVoicepack X Update

Bruce Nicholson and Alpha India Group revise six AIG callsigns by replacing earlier EditVoicepack files that include the EXPRESS portion of the callsign. They note that sound segments creating the EXPRESS callsign differ between EditVoicepack 3.1 and EditVoicepack X, and the included readme offers guidance.

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Performance_textures_FSXSP2

By Claus V. Holmberg, this package includes VC-RAIN visuals, Autogen Trees all seasons, and Water and Sky visuals. It is optimized for SP2, reduces sizes and converts some items from 32-bit to DXT3 or DXT1, while Mips stay unchanged from the original.

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Captain Sim Tutorial

Ted Porter authors a PDF tutorial detailing the 757 cold and dark startup, version 1.04. Readers save the file to a chosen location and use Adobe Reader to view or print. It stays concise, focusing on startup steps.

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Modified Water Environment

The daytime water appearance adjusts under 1X mid and 1X high settings, tempering blue to a more realistic shade. Three BMP files—env_highnoon.bmp, env_lowsun.bmp, and env_midsun.bmp—constitute the update, and the effects remain unchanged in 2X mode, by Martin Oldridge.

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AI Traffic For Copa Airlines

Rhett Browning presents an AI traffic file for Copa Airlines, adapting Narvaez Diaz’s earlier flight plans to three variants: AIA Boeing 737 Copa with eyebrow windows, AIA Boeing 738 Copa with eyebrow windows, and E190 COPA. It uses traffic_cmp_v1.bgl and MPTO Tocumen International Airport assets MPTO_V1.ZIP, with MPTO_v1_rb.zip or MPTO_v1.zip recommended for parking capacity.

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Boeing 737-200 Smoke Effects

By Tom Tiedman, Tinmouse II provides a smoke system for the 737-200ADV, version 1.25 (TINMOUSE_II_V1_25.ZIP). The archive comprises Aircraft, Docs, Effects, and Modules folders, with Docs and Effects removed; six texture folders CO, DL, LH, SN, TF, WA are included, and the fx_smoke_f6.fx effect plus SMOKESYSTEM entries are configured.

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Airbus Smoke Effects

By Tom Tiedman, this engine smoke effect targets the Thomas Ruth Airbus A340-200, 300, 500, and 600. It uses the fx_smoke_f6 element and four smoke positions defined in the [SMOKESYSTEM] lines to produce engine smoke, compatible across all four variants.

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Lockheed C-130 Engine Smoke

Tom Tiedman provides a dedicated engine smoke configuration for the Premier Aircraft Design Lockheed C-130J-30, identified by the C130J30_4X.ZIP file. The configuration defines four smoke points via the [SMOKESYSTEM] entries using the fx_smoke_f6.fx effect (smoke.0 to smoke.3).

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Environmental Reflection X 2007

By Tom Knudsen, this environment mapping enhancement boosts performance and sharpens reflections, designed to fit Service Pack 1 and bloom effects within the simulator. The file Environmental-Reflection-X-2007-fsx-1.jpg serves as the visual reference for documentation purposes.

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Tutorial - How To Make An FSX Thumbnail

A PDF-format tutorial authored by Mike Basford demonstrates thumbnail creation and serves as a concise reference. A sample image labeled Tiger Sky6 in flight accompanies the guide, providing a concrete visual example for reference today.

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Airbus A321 Jetway Mod

This jetway modification, by Bob Lykins, targets the Project Airbus A321 for use with that model. Jetway testing uses a Project Airbus A321, and the change should work with most other similar models, offering broad compatibility.

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