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Manual/Checklist Default Boeing 747-400

Authored by Werner Schott as freeware, this PDF booklet presents a complete, step-by-step flow for the Boeing 747-400, from a dark-and-cold cockpit through pre-start, taxi, takeoff, cruise, descent, approach, landing, and final shutdown. Earlier editions have amassed over 13,000 downloads, and the guide mirrors standard procedures for default 747-400 controls, using a page-by-page format.

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Nick's SunFix

Nick Needham delivers sun effect enhancements that generate simulated volumetric rays emanating from the corona and adapt with time of day, altitude, clouds, and humidity. The bloom component is refined to avoid overpowering displays and remains compatible with or without bloom, ensuring proper scale across conditions.

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Sirocco LT - a 132 ft concept motoryacht

By Robert Waszkiewicz of Deltasim Studio, the model offers a full functional 3D virtual cockpit, moving parts, and custom gauges, reflecting careful attention to cockpit realism and instrument placement, all rendered in a compact, highly detailed layout.

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Carrier Operation Package V3.0

V3.0 employs four gauges and effects for tail-hook equipped aircraft on carriers, including a catapult gauge for launch, an arrester gauge for cable arrest, an IFLOLS gauge for approaches, and a SonicBoom effect with a controller gauge. Requires FSUIPC; by Rob Barendregt, with Doug Dawson supplying interface gauges for speed control and launch/arrest zone definitions.

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: Mk82 500lb Bomb

Phill Stokes creates a droppable payload that serves as an alternative to flour bombs, with permission from Bruce Fitzgerald and tied to registration N322DW. The item resides in SimObjects/Misc, featuring the attached object Mk82_1 in the SDK.

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Black Smoke Texture

Stephen Ballard provides a BMP asset that enhances black smoke effects. It carries the file name FX_1.bmp and is described as a new visual-effects option, with the format clearly identified as BMP for distribution globally.

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QuickGOTO for FSX

QuickGOTO maintains a database of the most frequently used departure locations, including gates, parking spots, and runways, enabling the airplane to be moved instantly to a chosen point. Disabling the opening screen in the general settings improves performance.

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Manual/Checklist - Airbus A340-200

In a compact PDF reference, the A340-200 guide covers engine start in cold and dark conditions, taxi, takeoff, climb, descent, approach, and shutdown, drawing on the original panel by Thomas Ruth. Authored by Thomas Ruth and organized by Werner Schott, the manual emphasizes a four-engine airliner workflow and realism.

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Auto-Hover For R22, JetRanger And EH101

A console program provides a three-axis autopilot that controls the cyclic and rudder for three rotorcraft variants. The period key toggles two submodes, Hover Mode (default) and Forward Mode with joystick-adjusted pitch, while beyond 4x simulation time acceleration the autopilot may destabilize and dampen after a few seconds.

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Complete with Base Model

F-111 AI Aircraft For Australia

Eleven F-111s enter Australian skies, eight at RAAF Amberley (YAMB) and three at RAAF East Sale (YMES). Units 4-1SQN, 4-6SQN, and 3-ARDU operate, some AI travel along the eastern seaboard, an AI timetable accompanies this setup, and the arrangement complements OZx ADF AI, by Karol Chlebowski.

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Gmax Model Tutorial

An introductory tutorial serves as a simple beginner's guide to creating a first model, outlining a clear path for newcomers as they begin using the tool. It helps people take their first step, and is presented by Neil Birch.

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: Bomb_C - Droppable payload An Alternative to flour bombs

An attached object named bomb_c sits in SimObjects/Misc, while the mission SDK effect for it goes in the effects folder. Any .mdl file can be dropped if converted into a simpleobject, and Bruce Fitzgerald, N322DW, contributes the approach.

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ATC Sound Modifications

Three changes refine phraseology, covering IFR clearance, IFR readback, and landing clearance, establishing focused improvements for communications in specified flight operations. Editvoicepack X, identified as EVPX40.ZIP, remains the required component, by Thomas Cain, the author.

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Optimizing Your Computer For Flight Simulator (Final)

Four-page tutorial outlines steps to optimize and accelerate any PC, drawing on free software and revised operating system settings. It adds guidance on preventing the blue screen of death and carries final credit to Vince McCoy.

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Bomber Goes in

Bruce.Fitzgerald updates an older Peleliu to Koror bombing run, reworking the sequence to affect flour bombs differently. The change makes flour bombs explode in all such uses and leaves a crater without destroying targets yet, while the developer notes ongoing progress with the SDK.

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Glider Towing Tutorial - Change TOW Plane

By Thomas Murr, the guide shows how to swap the tow plane in the simulator so any desired aircraft can haul a glider aloft, with a Falke tow plane pictured. A hotkey sequence—hold CTRL and SHIFT and press Y—calls the tow aircraft, and references TUT_TWPL.ZIP and tut_twpl.zip for related material.

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Nuke And Missile Effects

Nor-Cal Prop Club provides nuclear bomb and missile effects for use with any aircraft, compiled by Alex Chadney. The two effects are fx_Nukem and Fx_95missile, and they link visuals to a nuclear event and a missile launch.

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ArrCab 2.6

Arrestor cables accompany a version labeled 2.6 for ArrCab, and a bottleneck from FSUIPC Simconnect disrupts ArrCab's behavior, a scenario described as daunting at first. Nevertheless, ArrCab remains tweakable and can overcome this problem, by Richard Hogen.

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FSX/Acceleration Working Nuclear Bomb

Original model by V. Zhyhulskiy, enhanced by Greg Schneider, delivers nuclear bomb effects. A screenshot illustrates a nuclear bomb drop, and the array centers on large visual effects that appear in the scene for various pilots.

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Propeller Texture 3-Pack

Tom Tiedman authors a public-domain set offering two-, three-, and four-blade prop visuals for aircraft configurations. The assets appear as 32-bit bitmaps and convert with DXTBMP to DXT3 or DDS (32-bit) formats, and have been tested in 32-bit, DXT3, and DDS forms, with an ATR 42-300 example using prop_anim_ratio=0.9985 in aircraft.cfg.

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