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Weapons For Alphasim B1B Lancer

David Robles reconfigures the lights and provides sound effects and WAV files to accompany the freeware B-1B Lancer from Alpha Simulations. Robles notes three additional files, with links in the readme, and weapon systems tie into panel lights for conventional use and strobe lights for nuclear weapons.

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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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HD Moon Texture V2.0

By Marco Fischbach, a lunar set provides 15 moon maps named moon1.bmp through moon15.bmp, converted to the DXT5 format with a bump map applied. The resolution scales from 512x512 to 1024x1024, and Earth's planetshine is darkened so the glow appears only during the moon's early and late quarters.

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Airport Design Editor Tutorial 3

An illustrated guide demonstrates the use of background images within the airport design workflow and ships as a PDF file. The tutorial by bob Keeshan for The ScruffyDuck Software Company follows a step-by-step process to integrate imagery into project layouts.

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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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Modified Default Vehicles

Five default airport vehicle models undergo fixes for transparency issues and related defects. The work uses Arno's ModelconverterX development release and applies only to models that import without warnings. For Russian airport vehicles, ensure proper copies into VEH_air_RU_bagcart1 and VEH_air_RU_bagcart_FlatNose folders.

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Acceleration FLOLS Trailer V1.0

FLOLS trailer model serves Field Carrier Landing Practice, featuring a working Optical Landing System and arrestor gear for naval ops training. Real FCLP omits arresting gear, but the extra gear is included for fun, with credit given to Sylvain Parouty.

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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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Flight Deck 3 Patch

Robert A. Baum provides a patch that enables the Abacus deck system three carriers to function within a widely used flight simulator. The update credits Baum and centers on making the carrier components operational today.

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Performance_textures_FSXSP2

By Claus V. Holmberg, this package includes VC-RAIN visuals, Autogen Trees all seasons, and Water and Sky visuals. It is optimized for SP2, reduces sizes and converts some items from 32-bit to DXT3 or DXT1, while Mips stay unchanged from the original.

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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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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 - 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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Ryanair AI Flight Plans Summer 10

Ryanair appears in a 2010 summer flight plans context, authored by Greg Clifford. The record emphasizes a seasonal focus on Ryanair operations and clearly credits Greg Clifford as creator, reflecting a concise, author-attributed note for this period.

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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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Suggested Settings

An Excel spreadsheet and a PDF version compile most of the essential options, totaling about 49 significant adjustments to guide frame-rate tuning, By Roger L. Deal. The material prints on two pages, and users can circle adjustments or enter them in Excel and save or share.

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Airbus A321 Jetway Mod

This jetway modification, by Bob Lykins, targets the Project Airbus A321 for use with that model. Jetway testing uses a Project Airbus A321, and the change should work with most other similar models, offering broad compatibility.

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Carrier Routes Sao Paulo A12 Brazil

By Hani Michal, this item provides a paint job for the Brazilian carrier Sao Paulo A12 in Brazil and outlines 33 associated routes. The scope centers on the carrier and its route network, with the creator named clearly.

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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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