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French Air Force Refueling Flight Plan

An aviation traffic file links five bases in France by introducing tanker activity using Dassault Etendard and Boeing C-135 models; both aircraft require separate downloads, with a link in readme.txt. Credits go to Daniel Gauthier.

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Water Runways

A PDF lists water runways, drawing on data from Winfried Orthmann and verified across 1,525 APX files. The dataset sorts by country, state and ICAO, with most locations in the United States and some entries lacking runway start locations.

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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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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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Kenmore Air De Havilland Beaver DHC-2

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 popularity for remote lake service near Seattle, with artwork by Victor Vu.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Environmental Reflection X 2007

By Tom Knudsen, this environment mapping enhancement boosts performance and sharpens reflections, designed to fit Service Pack 1 and bloom effects within the simulator. The file Environmental-Reflection-X-2007-fsx-1.jpg serves as the visual reference for documentation purposes.

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Flag Animation Tutorial

By Serdar Nuzhet, this work outlines the principals and procedures for creating and importing groups of animated flags, with 3ds Max 7 used to craft the writer's project and accompanying tutorial. It notes that the Gmax process should be similar, offering a practical reference for beginners and enthusiasts.

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Printable Checklists For L-39 Albatros

Lotus Simulations provides a printable reference for the Aero Vodochody L-39 Albatros, formatted to print on two 8.5 by 11 inch pages or two sides of a single sheet. By Mike Johnson, it offers a concise, aircraft-specific checklist designed for quick cockpit reference.

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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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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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High Resolution Moon V2

The default moon imagery receives an upgrade by swapping 64x64 BMPs for 512x512 BMPs, with the Alpha channel replaced by higher resolution data; enhanced via MIP mapping by NickN, this change reduces sparklies in normal and low-zoom views and lowers memory demand during display.

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