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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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AICarriers Version Of The FSN Carrier

An efficient tool, it lets users place and command single ships or entire naval fleets without editing traffic or mission files. The Alpha Carrier variant is depicted, and George Galloway handles the project, enabling on-the-fly deployment during free flight.

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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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Water Runways

A PDF lists water runways, drawing on data from Winfried Orthmann and verified across 1,525 APX files. The dataset sorts by country, state and ICAO, with most locations in the United States and some entries lacking runway start locations.

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Aircraft Background Viewer Images

Real-world photographs by Ian Salter capture locations across the world and serve as replacement backgrounds for a background viewer. The collection emphasizes geographic variety and presents images with neutral colors, expanding the viewer's visual options.

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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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Taxi Lights Tutorial

An ultra-brief guide shows how to toggle taxi lights on aircraft, presenting the on or off states for ground operations, by Joost Visser, and relies on Shockwave 3D Redux lights to demonstrate a straightforward adjustment on the ground.

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Airport Design Editor Tutorial 3

An illustrated guide demonstrates the use of background images within the airport design workflow and ships as a PDF file. The tutorial by bob Keeshan for The ScruffyDuck Software Company follows a step-by-step process to integrate imagery into project layouts.

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Tutorial - Reducing Traffic Speed

An illustrated tutorial explains how to lower the speed of highway vehicle traffic observed around larger cities and airports, highlighting that speeds are perceived as too fast for realistic flight. David 'Opa' Marshall compiles the guide in DOC and PDF formats.

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Extra 300S Smoke Effect

By Jordan Neville, the smoke effect for the default Extra 300 offers a five-color trail that enhances overall visibility during flight. Five distinct hues fill the plume and create a bright, multi-colored display during flight.

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Aircraft Fuel Dump Effects

It should work with any aircraft, providing a fuel-dump capability and leaving a standard fuel vapor trail behind the aircraft. A cockpit warning sounds and changes as the valves close, clearly attributed to Carl Vokes.

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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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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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Aerosoft Airbus X - FDC Profile

An FDC profile provides performance data and checklists for two variants, the 320 and 321. It links practical procedures to the specified aircraft, delivering concise guidance on operation while staying focused on the published metrics and workflows.

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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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Documentation for Deltasim Gemini Concept Motor Yacht

Two virtual cockpits with panel, gauges and switches (with click sound) appear inside a 94-foot luxury motor yacht rendered in full 3D. The three-deck model includes animated parts and crew, plus furniture and equipment, with Robert Waszkiewicz of Deltasim Studio noted as payware.

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Clouds For Thermals

Four Gmax generated cumulus clouds mark thermals, with each thermal randomly selecting one of the four variants, by Ed Dumas Sr. AirObjectVisuals.xml accompanies the data, and a reference image shows the clouds' distinctive shapes in visual displays.

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Revised Textures

By Al Wheeler and Miguel Zafra, revised asphalt and concrete taxiway and ramp surface imagery removes expansion joint lines from the concrete variant, reduces brightness, and the taxiway_marks.dds adds black backgrounds to taxiway markings to conform to FAA regulations. A 512x512 BMP converts to a 1024x1024 DDS, while revised taxiway_detail.bmp appears alongside other surface images.

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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 - Exhaust Flame Effects

Mike Basford presents Part Two on exhaust flames from engines, examining how flame visuals accompany a prop-driven flight in steady detail. A screenshot captures World Travel Airlines' prop in flight, linking the approach to a real-world operator.

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