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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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Garmin GPS 500 Checklists

By Noel Sivertson, the checklist provides a quick reference for the default GPS 500 and comes in PDF format, making printing and carrying easy. A companion image shows the sheets printed and bound in a binder, emphasizing a handy, portable reference.

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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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Remove Cockpit Reflections

Created by John Standard, edited default cockpit visuals remove reflections in the virtual cockpit of standard aircraft. A DDS file named Aircraftname_reflection.dds accompanies this, intended to replace the corresponding default image to produce clearer forward windows.

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AI Spaceships (Near Space) Expansion

Five ships form the roster, including Ardent-class Area Defence Frigate, Hector-class Utility Frigate, Oberon-class Light Cruiser, Valkyrie-class Fleet Destroyer, and Wespe-class Strike Frigate. The collection incorporates AIcarriers2 and Rob's space gauges and aligns with Tim Conrads ACV-15 space carrier as battlegroup components.

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Design Tutorial For Sloping Runway

Walter Roberts presents a design approach to sloping runways by building a sloping flatten polygon and turning it into a hardened surface, then locating it accurately within the world. The text notes that all ingredients for realizing sloping runways exist, and samples from the tutorial illustrate the concept.

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Not So Blue Sea Textures

Luiz Alvarenga presents a darker water appearance that tempers bright coastal blues, preserves contrast and brings tones closer to typical shorelines, especially in shallow-water scenes. An Originals folder houses the original files for restoration easily.

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PMDG Boeing 737 NGX Interface

The driver enables GoFlight hardware to interface with the PMDG B737 NGX, authored by Stephen Munn. Running setup.exe starts the process, and an enclosed PDF accompanies the package with installation and support instructions for users.

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Big Thumbnail Pack

Jon Masterson ships thumbnails that cover nearly all stock items, including OBX-based objects and locally defined files. It works with two editing tools, version 1.30 onward, by unpacking while maintaining the folder hierarchy; removal is accomplished simply by deleting all files and folders.

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Sun Tweak For Light-Bloom Disabled

By Dave Bolger, this sun glow tweak makes the sun appear more radiant and its glow lasts longer after sunset. It uses the suneffect.cfg file placed in the main directory, with a backup included, and restoration simply reinstates the original.

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Modified Touchdown Effects For AI

The modification adjusts tire burn smoke, making it lighter and more translucent while enhancing vortex swirl, and it introduces tire screech that can be heard within 100 meters of a landing AI aircraft. It relies on fx_tchdwn.fx and fx_tchdwn_s.fx and adds a matching ai_touchdown2 sound cue to the Sound folder.

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C-130 Props

By Bob Rivera, this alternative four-blade propeller suits Captain Sim's Lockheed C-130 Hercules, replacing the standard configuration with a distinct blade arrangement. The CS_C130 designation guides this modification, tying the blade change to that aircraft family.

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Free Flight UI Background

A new background image for the free flight setup interface appears, with photographer notes in readme.txt by David Ranieri, and it accompanies a visual demonstration. An accompanying screenshot shows the Freeflight menu, and the filename Free-Flight-UI-Background-fsx-1.jpg serves as reference.

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Kenmore Air De Havilland Beaver DHC-2

Kenmore Air operates a DHC-2 Beaver with two variations, floats and wheels, and the aircraft bears registration N9766Z. Production totals reach about 1,657 units, underscoring the model’s popularity for remote lake service near Seattle, with artwork by Victor Vu.

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Acceleration FLOLS Trailer V1.0

FLOLS trailer model serves Field Carrier Landing Practice, featuring a working Optical Landing System and arrestor gear for naval ops training. Real FCLP omits arresting gear, but the extra gear is included for fun, with credit given to Sylvain Parouty.

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Aerosoft Airbus X - FDC Profile

An FDC profile provides performance data and checklists for two variants, the 320 and 321. It links practical procedures to the specified aircraft, delivering concise guidance on operation while staying focused on the published metrics and workflows.

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Modified Water Environment

The daytime water appearance adjusts under 1X mid and 1X high settings, tempering blue to a more realistic shade. Three BMP files—env_highnoon.bmp, env_lowsun.bmp, and env_midsun.bmp—constitute the update, and the effects remain unchanged in 2X mode, by Martin Oldridge.

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Airports and Navaids in Google Earth

Ian Niblo compiles a zip archive that includes airfields and nav aids with all comm and nav frequencies, along with runway details and relevant ILS information, drawn from the default BGL files dated November 2006.

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Weapons Pack 4

Drop Object-enabled weapons operate in free flight, delivering dumb bombs, laser-guided bombs, GPS-guided bombs, and air-to-air plus air-to-ground missiles that fly forward. Created by Christopher Sykes, with Gmax models by David Brice (British) and FSDS by Kotaro Akikawa (US), the work is accompanied by a readme detailing limitations.

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Checklist For Airbus A320-200

An optimized checklist for the Airbus A320-200 from Project Open Sky, designed for use with the default kneeboard and covering pre-start through securing in a complete sequence. Basic radiotelephony examples based on the IVAO network accompany the material, by Philipp Herrmann.

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