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Tips And Tricks

After the death of David "Opa" Marshall, no one picks up the long-running guidance line, and Marshall stops releasing further numbers years before his passing. This marks the start of a new tips-focused sequence, continuing his work, authored by Ronald L. Falzon.

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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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FS2Crew For PMDG 747-X Mini Tutorial

An accompanying PDF mini instruction sheet supports a 747 add-on in a flight-simulation environment, guiding users who have completed the initial tutorial to maintain workflow, Glen Lee authors it, and the format serves as a concise cue reference for ongoing sessions.

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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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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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PAI Aircraft Installation

Clear guidance explains how to enable PAI traffic within a flight simulator, outlining practical steps to copy, move, and edit several essential files. Bruno van Mulken authors this guidance for use with the described steps.

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FSX09 Background Music

Tim Rigter provides a freeware air traffic control audio track captured from a JFK airport tower session in New York. The single WAV file FSX09.wav sits in the Sound/UIMusic folder, offering ambient background audio with a clearly identified source.

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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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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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PMDG 747X/8i FS2Crew Voice Edition Pre-Flight

A Word-format .doc supports the Voice Commander Edition for the PMDG747X/8i, outlining the captain’s tasks to perform before and during preflight events while preparing the aircraft from cold and dark. Accompanying pictures clarify the sequence, and Henk Altena authors the work.

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Airport Catalog (Global)

PDF documents present offline regional airfield data drawn from base .bgl files, organized for quick cross-checks during simulated travel. Global coverage spans Canada, Europe, South America, the USA, Africa, and Mexico, reflecting the project’s worldwide scope.

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Level-D Boeing 767 Flow Chart For FS2crew

A flow chart form guides use with the payware Level-D B767, outlining nearly every action and reaction of the Captain and First Officer as flows pass through the flight phases, and it is attributed to Patrick Zwarts.

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SP2 Cessna 150 Propeller Texture

Eight variants present blade tips in colors such as red, yellow, green, blue, purple, orange, red-white-and-blue, or plain to match the Fravin C150L. They reduce opacity to invisibility and require renaming the file to the same name as the prop file you replace when applying to other aircraft; by Tom Tiedman.

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FS2Crew For PMDG 747-X Tutorial 2

Designed for owners of FS2Crew PMDG Boeing 747, this tutorial by Glen Lee presents an alternate full flight walkthrough that omits some fine detail and explicitly includes flight planning for a Heathrow to Cairo itinerary.

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Corrected SDK Gauges.h File

The gauges.h file is updated and corrected to be backwards-compatible with older code, intended for gauge developers only. It now compiles C-gauges, and credits Dai Griffiths of Dragonflight Design.

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Aerobatic Tutorial - The Loop

RealAir presents a loop-focused aerobatic tutorial centered on the Citabria and Decathlon, with guidance adaptable for other aircraft. It explains initiating the climb at a chosen speed, balancing energy through the apex, and coordinating rudder and elevator to preserve heading during recovery.

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Oceania AGN Texures

Michael Allen-Andrews (Creator2003) models the default AGN large buildings and house and roof surfaces across Oceania, with emphasis on New Zealand. Australia and Pacific island nations share the same AGN sheets, and the readme explains how to apply changes.

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Sf260 Pilot

Three outfits update the SF-260 pilot, pairing Oakley tortoise shell sunglasses with a red Ferrari shirt, a brown leather jacket, or a Coogi sweater with white linen slacks. A dedicated file, named RASSF260_Pilot.dds, substitutes the default pilot image when applied.

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Fairchild Merlin III Engine Smoke

Merlin III receives a subtle engine smoke display, implemented via the fx_smoke_f6.fx file and a pair of SMOKESYSTEM entries in the aircraft’s configuration, smoke.0 and smoke.1, both pointing to fx_smoke_f6, by Tom Tiedman. The configuration shows two emitters and a single referenced effect, ensuring a concise smoke presentation for the Merlin III.

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