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Tutorial - Exhaust Flame Effects

Mike Basford presents Part Two on exhaust flames from engines, examining how flame visuals accompany a prop-driven flight in steady detail. A screenshot captures World Travel Airlines' prop in flight, linking the approach to a real-world operator.

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Carenado Aircraft Update

Official patch enables Carenado payware aircraft originally designed for a predecessor simulator to operate on a newer simulator, bridging compatibility for legacy models. Carenado supplies the patch directly, ensuring continued official support and preserving key systems and animations.

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Mahan Air Traffic

Peyman Badri authors the work. The work centers on a traffic topic implied by the title, and the two confirmed facts are the author identity and the headline's aviation focus, with no additional details provided.

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PAI Aircraft Installation

Clear guidance explains how to enable PAI traffic within a flight simulator, outlining practical steps to copy, move, and edit several essential files. Bruno van Mulken authors this guidance for use with the described steps.

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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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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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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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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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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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Forest V2

Redesigned visuals use DXT5 format and support Service Pack 1, offering a choice of 512x512 or 256x256 resolutions, with added snow, dead leaves, and enhanced palms, improving seasonal variety and depth for forested areas, by Tom Knudsen.

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Performance Autogen Textures For Europe

European general autogen building visuals shrink from 638 kb to 170 kb and adopt 512x512 mipmapped grids instead of 1024x1024, by Gerard Salden. The change remains nearly imperceptible above 250 ft and can boost performance on slower systems, with faster machines showing smoother loads.

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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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N0800 SimConnect Tutorial "Follow This Plane"

The tutorial shows sending nearby waypoints to a second aircraft to steer its path toward the designated points, and drops a parachute at each waypoint position to visualize where the follower flies, by Robert Denoue.

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Thai Airways Airbus A380 Flight Plans

Kevin R. Wynn provides actual schedules through September 2013. The approach aims to minimize system load by using fewer aircraft on each route, contrasting with other plans, while flight strategies favor longer uptime and reduced idle periods at airports.

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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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Outside Gauge Panel Tutorial

By Gera Godoy Canova, the guidance shows how to dedicate a separate monitor for the gauges or instrument panel, streamlining cockpit visibility. An accompanying photo depicts a multi-monitor arrangement, illustrating how a second screen can supplement the main display for real-time instruments.

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AGS 2010 - America Giga Scenery Screen Shots

An Americas-wide landscape expansion integrates North, Central and South America with a high-precision GPS database and SRTM relief capturing plains, plateaus, hills and mountains. Hydrography covers rivers, lakes, dams, oceans and beaches, while urban areas include parks, villages, towns and cities with roads and rail networks; by Wellington Gerhske da Camara Leal, Atlanta area view.

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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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