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Screen Shots Collection

Jim Dunn presents a series of screen shots focusing on the N690QX Beavers jet in flight, capturing them with a straightforward, neutral approach. The visuals capture the aircraft in motion and attribute the work to the author.

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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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Airbus Smoke Effects

By Tom Tiedman, this engine smoke effect targets the Thomas Ruth Airbus A340-200, 300, 500, and 600. It uses the fx_smoke_f6 element and four smoke positions defined in the [SMOKESYSTEM] lines to produce engine smoke, compatible across all four variants.

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Lockheed C-130 Engine Smoke

Tom Tiedman provides a dedicated engine smoke configuration for the Premier Aircraft Design Lockheed C-130J-30, identified by the C130J30_4X.ZIP file. The configuration defines four smoke points via the [SMOKESYSTEM] entries using the fx_smoke_f6.fx effect (smoke.0 to smoke.3).

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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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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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Aircraft Views

By Travis Smith, this code adds more views beyond the views that come with the aircraft, presenting a straightforward means to augment observer engagement. Travis Smith authors the work and holds author credit for visibility.

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Patch

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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Ryanair AI Flight Plans Summer 10

Ryanair appears in a 2010 summer flight plans context, authored by Greg Clifford. The record emphasizes a seasonal focus on Ryanair operations and clearly credits Greg Clifford as creator, reflecting a concise, author-attributed note for this period.

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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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Airbus A321 Jetway Mod

This jetway modification, by Bob Lykins, targets the Project Airbus A321 for use with that model. Jetway testing uses a Project Airbus A321, and the change should work with most other similar models, offering broad compatibility.

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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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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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