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'Person' Ground Vehicle

An improvised ground vehicle uses stock gauges and CFG files from content bundled with the simulator, and is GPS and autopilot ready for guided movement. The creator Frankensteines panels and CFG values from various other machines, tweaking the wing, motor, and autopilot to keep the craft on terra firma and reach a practical pace.

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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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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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Terrain Design

An illustrated guide outlines terrain concepts and how to change them with SBuilder, a tool used to shape island terrain. It covers creating water bodies, roads, vehicle traffic, airport flattening, removing autogen, and adding more detail, and notes that anybody can do it easily and quickly.

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Performance Autogen Textures For Europe

European general autogen building visuals shrink from 638 kb to 170 kb and adopt 512x512 mipmapped grids instead of 1024x1024, by Gerard Salden. The change remains nearly imperceptible above 250 ft and can boost performance on slower systems, with faster machines showing smoother loads.

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Default Autogen Models

By Ted Andrews, over 500 autogen models are converted into an XML look-up file accompanied by JPG previews. Five new Autogen categories appear in the Object Parameters window, with the first object picture shown in the preview slot.

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Photon Torpedo Effects

Based on FX_wing_guns effects, photon torpedo visuals attach to Bruce Fitzgerald's Star Trek ships, including NX01.ZIP, ENTRPR2.ZIP, ENTRPRD.ZIP, RELIANT.ZIP, DEFIANT.ZIP, BIRDOPRY.ZIP, and WARBIRD.ZIP. It provides effects, sounds and bitmap files and aircraft.cfg 'smokesystem' entries, while swapping in new .bmps for the Tracer visuals and adjusting the overall size.

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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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Israel CVFR Waypoints Saved Flights

Muli Ivanir provides saved flights above CVFR navigation points across Israeli airspace, specifically prepared for CVFR practice. An illustrated map depicts the included waypoints and flight paths to guide examination and flying for CVFR navigation, with clear routing cues.

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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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Airbus A300B Engine Smoke Effects

Engine smoke effect applies to the Airbus A300-B variants B1, B2, and B4, remaining hidden at standstill and becoming visible as the aircraft accelerates. The setup uses fx_smoke_f6.fx placed in the Effects folder and SMOKESYSTEM entries added to all three A300_B aircraft.cfg files, by Tom Tiedman.

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Manual/Checklist Howard 500

An all-in-one PDF manual presents a structured sequence from cold and dark preparation to securing after shutdown, including pre-start checks, engine start, taxi, and approach procedures. By Werner Schott, it draws on the Howard 500 design by Milton Shupe, Joao Paz, and Scott Thomas, with a cockpit panel reference image.

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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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Airbus A318 Jetway Mod

An adjustment enables Jetways for the A318 models from iFDG and Project Airbus, credited to Bob Lykins. It applies to aircraft that run within the simulator environment, including the A318 variants from those two developers.

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Gira Globo IL-76 Flight Plan

Flight plans cover Gira Globo's sole IL-76 D2-FCO, based in Luanda, and reference the aircraft's D2-FCO registration. Antoine Calleja for Globusworld authors the material, carrying the creator's name and tying the project to the base and variant.

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Aviatika MAI-890 Engine Smoke Effect

Tom Tiedman provides a Rotax 912 smoke effect for the Tim Conrad freeware Aviatika MAI-890 ultralight biplane, packaged as AVIATIKAMAI_890.ZIP. It includes the fx_smoke_f6.fx and a SMOKESYSTEM entry, with smoke.0=-4.0, 1.1, 1.3, fx_smoke_f6, added to the aircraft.cfg.

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Aerobatic Tutorial - AIL/Roll

Real Air delivers a flight-focused guide on performing aileron rolls with the Citabria and Decathlon, while offering substitution for other models. Operators adjust engine power, wing loading, and control sensitivity, beginning with a brief nose-down dive and balanced rudder to sustain longitudinal stability through each pivot.

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AirPhil Express Callsign "Orient Pacific"

An addition to EditVoicepack 4, it integrates the AirPhil Express asset using the import function of EditVoicepack 4.0, and it pairs the AirPhil Express Logo with this asset to establish a consistent visual identity for related uses.

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Complete with Base Model

Space 1999 Eagle

From the 70s television series Space 1999, this concept demonstrates spaceflight capability without a hefty price tag, with an absolute ceiling of 550,000 ft and a service ceiling of 400,000 ft, while maximum speed hits 2168 KIAS at sea level.

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