FSX Misc

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Modified Touchdown Effects For AI V2

This version updates the earlier files (TD_EFX.ZIP) and makes the smoke effect much less bulky. These files change the default FSX tire burn smoke effects, making them less dark, more transparent and with a bit more vortex swirl. Also adds tire sc...

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Grumman Goose Realism Fix

Fix for water contact points. This file contains the needed information so you can change the contact points and put the Goose deeper into the water. It will make the wing floats take effect earlier. By Stefan Weiss.

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Complete with Base Model

Space Shuttle

Not a realistic flying vehicle but just an interesting way to check out the new FSX space views. Included save flight offers a simulated liftoff with appropriate animations. By Ron Jeffers.

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Airport Catalog (Global)

This handy reference compiles detailed listings of aviation facilities drawn directly from the core files of Microsoft Flight Simulator X. It is offered as a set of PDF documents, each covering a distinct geographic region for quick browsing and o...

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Airport Baggage Cart Fix

This fixes the two variants of airport baggage carts which sink into the ground. By Stefan Weiss.

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Xenon Lights 3.0

Complete package. The third version of the "Xenon Lights" now for the Flight Simulator FSX. Realistic xenon lights with complete newly designed textures, now in four different grades of detail and brightness. This texture pack adds a special reali...

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Modified Terrain.cfg

Flight Simulator X terrain is defined in the terrain.cfg file. During testing, it was determined a certain number of modifications to this file will correct some problems with the FS world and also provide more options for scenery designers. For e...

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Modified Touchdown Effects For AI

These files change the default FSX tire burn smoke effects, making them less dark, more transparent and with a bit more vortex swirl. Also adds tire screech, which can be heard if within 100 meters of a landing AI aircraft. By Derek MacCarthy.

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String Table Pictures

A jpg image of every string table within FSX. By Jim Driscoll.

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PAI Aircraft Installation

Wonder whether PAI traffic will work in FSX? These instructions tell you how to make that possible. You will need to copy, move and edit some files. By Bruno van Mulken.

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Suggested Settings

An Excel spreadsheet (and PDF version) of most of the FSX settings. Trying to get the best frame rate is hard if you don't know what the 49 or so significant settings you or someone had to get there. This will print on two pages and you can circle...

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Grass Strip Textures

Replacement back country grass runway textures. By Brent Ludlow.

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Carenado Aircraft Update

A patch that will allow you to use Carenado's payware aircraft designed for FS2004 with FSX. This is an official patch supplied by Carenado.

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Complete with Base Model

'Person' Ground Vehicle

An attempt to make a slow-moving ground vehicle for native Flight Simulator X, using stock gauges and CFG files from content included with FSX. Lets you view the new amazing FSX scenery, ground and water traffic up close, plus it is GPS and autopi...

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Modified Star Catalog

Shows stars down to magnitude 5.50 to reduce load (about 2900 instead of 9000+). Original idea from J. Chuang. By F. Ronchi.

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Performance Autogen Textures For Europe

The original autogen building textures are 638 kb. These textures are reduced in size to 170 kb. Instead of 1024x1024 mipmapped the size is now 512x512 mipmapped. Included all European en general autogen building textures. By Gerard Salden.

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Patch

Flight Deck 3 Patch

A patch to make the Abacus Flight Deck 3 carriers useable in Microsoft Flight Simulator X. By Robert A. Baum.

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Airport Changes From FS2004 V1.0

There are 24,491 airports in FSX - 794 are new airports - mostly small GA fields. 1038 airports have changed their designator from the FS2004 airport. 61 airports which were in FS2004 are gone. There are six airports which have taken the designato...

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Corrected SDK Gauges.h File

The FSX gauges.h file updated and corrected so that it is backwards-compatible with FS2004 code. It will now compile both FSX and FS9 C-gauges. For gauge developers only. Install within your include path. By Dai Griffiths, Dragonflight Design.

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Make Scenery with the Object Placement Tool in FSX

The Deluxe version of Flight Simulator X contains a very easy-to-use tool for placing scenery objects visually within the game. Unfortunately, the Microsoft developers neglected to tell anybody. This document contains an illustrated explanation of...

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