
Desert helicopter landings kick up substantial dust plumes that obscure visibility, and this add-on recreates those clouds for arid terrain. By Mark Luzzi, it enhances the default appearance when o…

By Todd McCuistion, this first makeover darkens the interface to ease eye strain in a dark room and improves the overall look. A screenshot illustrates the adjusted visuals, highlighting the change…

By Philip Chandler, Ark Royal functions as a moving AI carrier with working catapults and arrestor wires for carrier ops. Default placement sits south of Gibralter on an East West racetrack, with a…
This tutorial demonstrates terrain data modification to achieve a more realistic look, concentrating on the Canary Islands off Africa and two small northern islands. It relies on Shuttle Radar Topo…
Cory Rees frames Delta Airlines within a USA Traffic context, aligning the operator with a domestic scope and presenting the work under his byline. The designation identifies the operator and geogr…
A Word .doc checklist accompanies the payware Wilco E-Jets Embraer 170/190, presenting a compact reference for two variants. By Louis Hermsen, the file aligns with the Embraer E-Jets 170 and 190 va…
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 v…
You wrap renamed wavs into a file named soundai after renaming sound.cfg to soundai.cfg, then create a cab file and place it under Traffic_Sounds\Jets. In the A321’s default folder, the cfg sets an…

For the Beechcraft Model 17 Staggerwing, a PDF-format step-by-step checklist covers cold-and-dark to secure shutdown, with manifold pressure guidance for standard airports up to 2,500 feet and adju…

A new background image for the free flight setup interface appears, with photographer notes in readme.txt by David Ranieri, and it accompanies a visual demonstration. An accompanying screenshot sho…

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 st…
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…
The compilation, by Gary McDonald, presents a complete list of all airports in the airports file, augmented with data from ICAO databases. The compilation records airport names, cities, states, and…

Kenmore Air operates a DHC-2 Beaver with two variations, floats and wheels, and the aircraft bears registration N9766Z. Production totals reach about 1,657 units, underscoring the model’s popularit…
PatchFive 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 withou…

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, doc…

Jaap van Hees documents the 1934 MacRobertson Air Race by KLM's DC-2 PH-AJU 'Uiver', detailing flight plans, weather conditions, and flight situation files (*.flt) for every leg. Maps of aerodromes…

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 st…

By Tom Tiedman, this smoke effect adds to the default Bombardier CRJ-700, using the fx_smoke_f6.fx file and a SMOKESYSTEM block that creates two entries, smoke.0 and smoke.1, with coordinates -86.4…

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…