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Scenic Flight Through The Grand Canyon

Grand Canyon flight plan traverses the canyon with over 800 waypoints, delivering two routes, eastbound and westbound, in a default Cessna 172 with autopilot engaged. Gauges by Karol Chlebowski for TFR flying and Pave Tack accompany the effort, and mini panel version 2.1 adds functionality, by Bill McClellan.

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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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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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Custom GA Traffic

Victor Nauta provides daytime-only general aviation traffic with two modified variants that reduce GA activity and steer clear of major airports, while allowing the commercial-aviation option to be added if desired. The process includes backing up trafficAircraft.bgl, deleting the original to avoid duplicates, and copying trafficAircraft_commercial_aviation.bgl along with one of the two GA files.

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Complete with Base Model

'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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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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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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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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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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Tutorial - Creating VIP Parking In FSX

An illustrated guide shows how to reserve a parking gate at any airport and have ATC direct you to that spot, a concept usable for a specific aircraft of your choice. The technique relies on investigations by Jim Vile and Reggie Fields and is compiled in Doc and PDF formats by David "Opa" Marshall.

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Default Douglas DC-3 Engine Smoke Effect

Tom Tiedman delivers a smoke effect for the default Douglas DC-3, adding an fx_smoke_f6.fx in the Effects folder and configuring the airframe with two SMOKESYSTEM entries. The lines place smoke.0 at -20.232, -10.906, -4.601 and smoke.1 at -20.232, 10.906, -4.601, both referencing fx_smoke_f6.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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USS Enterprise Group

An enterprise fleet-control file allows multiple ships to be governed as a coordinated unit through AI Carriers. Created by Tyler Shotwell, the file centers on enabling fleet-level management for vessels designated as a group within a coordinated command framework.

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