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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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Airport Baggage Cart Fix

Two baggage cart variants receive a fix by Stefan Weiss, adjusting contact points to avert sinking into the ground by about 1–2 feet. Backups reside in VEH_air_bagcart_blue_sm and VEH_air_bagcart_FlatNose_Grey_sm, with the corresponding sim.cfg-files copied from a zip-file into the same locations.

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Modified Star Catalog

The catalog displays stars down to magnitude 5.50, trimming the total to about 2900 entries and adding planetary data for Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, and Venus, with stars arranged by increasing brightness. The concept originates with J. Chuang and is authored by F. Ronchi.

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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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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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Flight Plans For Alaska

Fifty-three flight plans cover IFR, VFR, and Slow Speed segments across Alaska, merging military training routes to test performance. Two gauges by Karol Chlebowski—Terrain Following Radar and Pave Tack—enhance navigation and bombing procedures, while routes export to the flight planner and support switch between fighters and bombers; version 2.1 mini panel adds extended functionality.

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Photon Torpedo Effects

Based on FX_wing_guns effects, photon torpedo visuals attach to Bruce Fitzgerald's Star Trek ships, including NX01.ZIP, ENTRPR2.ZIP, ENTRPRD.ZIP, RELIANT.ZIP, DEFIANT.ZIP, BIRDOPRY.ZIP, and WARBIRD.ZIP. It provides effects, sounds and bitmap files and aircraft.cfg 'smokesystem' entries, while swapping in new .bmps for the Tracer visuals and adjusting the overall size.

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Default Autogen Models

By Ted Andrews, over 500 autogen models are converted into an XML look-up file accompanied by JPG previews. Five new Autogen categories appear in the Object Parameters window, with the first object picture shown in the preview slot.

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USS Enterprise Group

An enterprise fleet-control file allows multiple ships to be governed as a coordinated unit through AI Carriers. Created by Tyler Shotwell, the file centers on enabling fleet-level management for vessels designated as a group within a coordinated command framework.

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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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Cook Strait AI Boat Pack

Five named vessels model the Cook Strait corridor in New Zealand, including the modern Arahura, Kaitaki, Aratere, the high-speed Lynx, and the Wallenius car carrier built by Barry Minister. MARLB.ZIP and COOKBTUP.ZIP accompany the Marlborough Sounds components for flight-planned routes.

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KC-135 Engine Smoke

An engine smoke effect for the KC-135R Stratotanker accompanies the KC-135_X.ZIP package, authored by Tom Tiedman. The SMOKESYSTEM block in the KC-135R’s aircraft.cfg assigns four positions—smoke.0 to smoke.3—with coordinates such as -27.271, -45.787, -1.522 and -13.232, 26.416, -4.001, all referencing fx_smoke_f6.fx.

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Manual/Checklist Spartan 7W Executive

This PDF checklist covers the 7W Executive's operations from dark and cold to secured shutdown, including manifold pressure guidelines and RPM settings. Authored by Werner Schott, the 2004-era rendition has drawn over 5,000 downloads, while Milton Shupe, Scott Thomas, and Urs Burkhardt create the model and panel, with tweaks by Duane L. Tarbox.

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Manual/Checklist Howard 500

An all-in-one PDF manual presents a structured sequence from cold and dark preparation to securing after shutdown, including pre-start checks, engine start, taxi, and approach procedures. By Werner Schott, it draws on the Howard 500 design by Milton Shupe, Joao Paz, and Scott Thomas, with a cockpit panel reference image.

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Oil Rig Locator Update 3

By Carl Vokes, a file adds oil rig markers and overlays them on a mapping interface, using an icon courtesy of NDBC Observation. It also restores the image store file and, when available, provides the name, ADF and DME frequency for rigs.

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Gmax Tutorial Spanish English Italian

Beginners learn to animate an omni directional beacon atop a tower and simply observe a complete 360-degree rotation in a concise 15-minute session. The final model arrives in MDL format, ready for immediate use today.

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Callsign For TUI Fly Germany

A compact spreadsheet in 97-2003 format compiles official airline call signs with a focus on a Hanover-based leisure carrier, created by Dale Wingard. It lists each carrier’s call sign, three-letter ID, company name, and country, enabling straightforward reference within crew communications and aircraft routing workflows.

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Tutorial - Messing With Engine Effects

Mike Basford demonstrates adjustments to engine exhaust flame effects, highlighting how visuals influence a propeller aircraft’s appearance. A screenshot captures World Travel Airlines’ prop on a runway, providing a concrete example of the effect in action.

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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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High Resolution Moon

The default 64x64 BMP moon images are replaced with 512x512 BMPs, and the alpha channel is swapped for higher-resolution imagery, updating the moonX.bmp files. A backup of the original moonX.bmp in the image folder is created, then the contents of the downloaded folder are copied into that folder, with overwrite confirmed when prompted.

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