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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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EMBSeries

By Bill Honcoop, a version of the EMBSeries is presented together with a rendition of WaterConstants.xml, while small tweaks are available to emphasize how the sim looks under different conditions. The arrangement centers on the EMBSeries and WaterConstants.xml, with tuning that modifies appearance under varying settings.

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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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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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Airbus A380 Smoke Effect

Tom Tiedman provides an engine smoke effect for the Project Airbus A380, associated with PA380_HOUSE.ZIP, and uses the fx_smoke_f6.fx file. The setup adds four SMOKESYSTEM entries in the aircraft.cfg, labeled smoke.0 through smoke.3, each pointing to fx_smoke_f6.

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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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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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Aircraft Views

By Travis Smith, this code adds more views beyond the views that come with the aircraft, presenting a straightforward means to augment observer engagement. Travis Smith authors the work and holds author credit for visibility.

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Modified Star Catalog

The catalog displays stars down to magnitude 5.50, trimming the total to about 2900 entries and adding planetary data for Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, and Venus, with stars arranged by increasing brightness. The concept originates with J. Chuang and is authored by F. Ronchi.

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Default Engine Smoke Effect

By Tom Tiedman, the Cessna C208B gains a smoke effect linked to fx_smoke_f6.fx and a SMOKESYSTEM entry. The SMOKESYSTEM line reads smoke.0=-10.232, 2.706, -4.801, fx_smoke_f6 and is inserted into the default aircraft.cfg to activate the effect.

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Flight Simulator And Windows Vista

David Grindele issues a message about using older flightsim add-ons, establishing the central subject and naming the author. The communication frames the topic around legacy add-ons from Grindele’s perspective, keeping the discussion concise and focused.

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Acceleration Gmax Bell 430 Lights

These lights provide 22-degree down lighting and emergency illumination for the Bell 430 model, and require Shockwave Redux Lights from a2a Simulations for operation. Brad Stolte is credited as the creator for the Bell 430 model.

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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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F-4 Phantom II Smoke Effects

Two variants of the Ito/Rooks Phantom II include VX-4 Black Bunny and VF-101 Grim Reapers, each packaged under the ZIP names VX-4BLACKBUNNY.ZIP and VF101GRIMREAPERS.ZIP. By Tom Tiedman, this smoke setup references fx_smoke_f6.fx, with two entries in the [SMOKESYSTEM] block labeled smoke.0 and smoke.1.

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Manual/Checklist Spartan 7W Executive

This PDF checklist covers the 7W Executive's operations from dark and cold to secured shutdown, including manifold pressure guidelines and RPM settings. Authored by Werner Schott, the 2004-era rendition has drawn over 5,000 downloads, while Milton Shupe, Scott Thomas, and Urs Burkhardt create the model and panel, with tweaks by Duane L. Tarbox.

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Gmax Tutorial Spanish English Italian

Beginners learn to animate an omni directional beacon atop a tower and simply observe a complete 360-degree rotation in a concise 15-minute session. The final model arrives in MDL format, ready for immediate use today.

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Flight Plans For The Northeastern US

Bill McClellan develops 196 routes across the Northeastern United States for low-level IFR and VFR flight, with slow-speed profiles and terrain-following gauges by Karol Chlebowski. Two optional devices, terrain-following radar and Pave Tack, augment reconnaissance capabilities, including simulated bombing functionalities, while v2.1 mini-panel consolidates these tools for flexible operations.

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Delta Connection/United Express Callsigns

Compass Airlines, Pinnacle Airlines, and Shuttle America gain the callsigns Compass Rose, Flagship, and Mercury. Requires EditVoicePack X (EVPX40.ZIP); users may add these via airlines.cfg in the main root, while other callsigns remain stock or appear in community edits, and the stock listing shows Flag Ship, whereas this uses Flagship as one word.

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FSAdventureSky Flight - 'Flying by Pilotage'

By Gera Godoy C., a compact pilotage tutorial introduces the basic VFR technique of navigating by landmarks, letting a pilot reach any location across the FS world. FSAdventureSky applies this approach in most of its flights.

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