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Douglas DC-10 Flight Tutorial

Commercial Level Simulations releases a DC10 flight tutorial in PDF format, guiding a complete flight for the payware variant. The document presents a structured walkthrough focused on the DC10, providing procedural guidance in a portable format.

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Kenmore Air De Havilland Beaver DHC-2

Kenmore Air operates a DHC-2 Beaver with two variations, floats and wheels, and the aircraft bears registration N9766Z. Production totals reach about 1,657 units, underscoring the model’s popularity for remote lake service near Seattle, with artwork by Victor Vu.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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44 Star Constellations

The stars.dat file in the original folder now shows 44 constellations instead of two, selected from the 88 official ones across northern and southern hemispheres. Two constellations, Big Dipper and Orion's Belt, appear initially with a thin green line linking their stars, by Jean-Marc Thiebaud.

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Ship Library

Winfried Orthmann contributes a ship library designed for designers, paired with a Gmax gamepack and not compatible with earlier iterations. Unzipping reveals two folders housing ships and image assets, and you install by placing contents into AddonScenery or the global assets folder, enabling placement of the vessels in addon areas just like other library objects.

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British Airways A318 Only Flight Plans

Flight plans cover British Airways A318 operations from London City to New York, reflecting fall 2009 schedules for transatlantic routes. The author is Joseph Calleja, and the data are drawn from the British Airways site.

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Fix Propeller Display In FSX SP2

French translation by Gilbert Fouche stems from David Marshall’s original work, linked to the file prop_fix.zip. The accompanying image caption notes a screenshot of corrected props, illustrating the intended propeller display fix delivered through this translation.

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MH's Callsigns Vol. 1

Compatibility centers on EditVoicePack 4.x with EVPX40.ZIP, delivering airline callsigns for Abelag, Air Caledonie, Air Hamburg, Anadolijet, Mexicana, Dauria, Island Air, IzAir, FlyLAL, National Jet, AirNow, Sudamericana, United Nations, Vietnam Air Services, and Variglog. Michael Heise compiles emergency operators callsigns, German police helicopter identifiers, and military callsigns alongside model identifiers.

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Iran Air Force IL-76 Flight Plans

Five IL-76s operate from Tehran for Iran's air force, with Antoine Calleja for Globusworld credited as the author, presenting the subject through a concise set of flight plans. The Tehran base context anchors the material.

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Repair Aircraft Transparency Issues

A repair method targets transparency issues on several aircraft, including Giles-202, Starlite, Skyboy, Su-31, Sierra, Sierra Amphibian, and P2004 Bravo, yielding window glass that remains shiny and present. The fixtrans.zip file is cited, with Akrotech Giles-202 shown as an example folder, and it requires the target planes to be installed beforehand.

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Weapons FSX 160 SOAR Little Bird

An OH 6A modified aircraft designated MH 6 Little Bird flies with the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment and carries Minigun-style weapon effects. Four files are required to enable these effects, and direct links to all files are provided in the readme by Tim Conrad and David Robles.

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Flight Plans For The US Terrirories

An add-on presents nine distinct low-altitude routes across Guam and Puerto Rico, with IFR, VFR, and slow-speed options for realistic training. Bill McClellan contributes the core routes, while Karol Chlebowski provides two gauges that enhance Terrain Following Radar and integrate Pave Tack, plus an optional mini panel v2.1.

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Engine Smoke Effect For T-2C Buckeye

Tom Tiedman presents a smoke effect for the North American Aviation T-2C Buckeye, originally updated by Bill Lowe. It relies on fx_smoke_f6.fx and integrates two SMOKESYSTEM entries in the aircraft.cfg with coordinates -1.732, -2.006, -3.901 and -1.732, 2.006, -3.901.

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Japan Coast Guard Flight Plans

Two Saab 340 aircraft operated by a coast guard unit are based at Kansai airport in western Japan. By Marten Weber, a ZIP file AISF3JCG.ZIP is linked to the flight plans for these operations here.

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