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Colored Smoke System

Five color configurations arise from distinct light-function positions, including recognition, cabin, logo, wing, and cockpit, generating colored smoke trails from the gauge’s output. Parameter settings target the PC-7Astra variant, while the system remains installable on any aircraft; these smoke effects rely on aircraft light sources to drive visuals.

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Virtavia F-4 Pack 2 Panel

By Don Bodenstedt, this cockpit augmentation for Phantom II adds revised afterburners and a red VC light effect that aids night flying, with a basic HUD and a wide range of readouts. Automatic afterburner controls engage at 90% throttle, and about 100 gauges are provided for Phantoms and other era aircraft.

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Default Boeing 737-800 Added Views

By Marc Renaud, this camera enhancement for the Boeing 737-800 adds ten external viewpoints that cover engine pylons, wings, and tail, while keeping onboard perspectives comparable. Camera definitions insert into the aircraft.cfg, replacing prior angles to maintain a coherent flow, and Renaud copies entries from camera definitions.txt to the bottom.

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Primary Flight Display (PFD) Updates

Three different aircraft types receive a correction to the radalt readings, and those readings become easily readable rather than obscured. By Dimitris Moschos, the change targets precision improvements for altitude indications on cockpit displays across the affected models.

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Camera Positions For POSKY Boeing 777-300

Three new positions appear for the B777-300 on each side, including wing view, engine, and wing positions. There is no wingview option in the Project Open Sky 777 family, leaving other angles as the focus, by Kaan Aktas.

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F-4 Phantom 2D Panel

An F-4 Phantom cockpit panel presents a photo-based layout with over 40 custom gauges and night lighting, plus afterburner effects and a tailored Lights section in aircraft.cfg for updated Phantoms. It offers two installation options by renaming the F4Beta folder to panel or setting panel=F4Beta, and allows moving F4Gauges.cab to the gauges folder.

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Complete with Base Model

Grumman Tracker S2F Firebomber Update

Three flightdeck variants are offered: a standard 2D cockpit for 1280 × 1024 displays and two wide‑view setups for three displays at 3840 × 1024, all paired with a coherent VC. Emmanuel Geffroy is the original designer, while Emile Lancee corrects gauge installation and aligns the 2D and VC flightdecks.

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Boeing 747-400 New View

Two camera definitions by Victor H.M. Soriano create upper-deck left and right wing views for the 747-400, with InitialZoom set to 0.40 and InitialXyz coordinates -3.5, 3.25, 13.0 and 3.5, 3.25, 13.0, reflecting a concise virtual cockpit perspective.

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Overland SMS Gauges Airbus A340 Fix 2

Fix No 2 applies to the A340 variant within the SMS gauge upgrade set, addressing a clock display that fails to appear in both 2D and VC views. Authored by Dimitrios Moschos, the fix targets the clock component specifically.

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Alphasim/Virtavia F-111 Panel

Version 2.6.7 enhances Alphasim and Virtavia General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark cockpits, delivering a crisper 3D look and better alignment between 2D and VC instruments. It adds Attack Radar capable of showing ground or air targets, includes TFAS and AOB gauges, and introduces a new fuel dump and burn effect.

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VTOL/Hover Gauge For Wilco Tiltrotor

Version 4.0 introduces V(S)TOL and hover capability for a tiltrotor, with a gauge-coded FDE that overrides standard flight dynamics when nacelles rotate from the normal position. All ten nacelle positions, except the fully forward setting, fall under gauge control, adds a down-camera for Vertical Landings, and includes rotorwash dust.

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SMS Overland Airbus A330/A340 Gauge Upgrade Fix

Dimitrios Moschos presents a gauge upgrade fix for the A330/A340 cockpit, substituting the A340 2D panel with a fixed version. The file SMS_A330_A340_GAUGE_UPGRADE_V2.ZIP houses a more realistically sized auto brakes buttons and tunes the brakes selector gauge for this configuration.

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Fokker 50 Standard Panel Modifications

Two variants equip the Fokker 50 cockpit with either a Delco Carousel Inertial Navigation System or a BendixKing/Honeywell Flight Management System, using distinct file designs such as Panel.std_Bendix and Panel.std_LTN. The modifications overwrite configuration files in the existing payware release, retaining the turboprop’s essential instrumentation while enabling dual-pilot viewpoints and a mouse-activated navigation display.

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CS Weapon VC 3dHUD For Acceleration F/A-18

An integration places the 3dHUD cockpit overlay from CS Weapon into the F/A-18, by adjusting the eyepoint to -17.0, 0.0, 3.38 in the Aircraft.CFG. The package includes CSWeapon.XML under the FA-18 folder at 0.0,14.40,3.38,0.310 for swap-in, and updates the panel gauge to CSWeapon!hud3d at 569.8, 523, 462, 500 with 4 NOSCANLINES.

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Virtavia F-4 Phantom Package 1 Panel Fix

Don Bodenstedt delivers a VC panel fix for the Virtavia F-4 Phantom II first edition, adding a panel.DCBVx folder to replace the cockpit. Users modify aircraft.cfg to panel=DCBVx and copy the cab from the third edition’s panel folder; it does not work with the second edition and is unnecessary for the third.

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Passenger Sign Display Gauge

Cabin passenger sign display gauge, by Diego Roxas, presents seat belt and no smoking indicators, with a new multi-colored display and a classic warm colors option. It relies on display_screen.bmp as the asset and cites a Windowxx entry with gauge00 coordinates 82,46,437,109.

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Sikorsky MH-53 Pavelow Panel

A panel with glass cockpit gauges for the Marines’ MH-53 Pavelow helicopter replaces the Dirty Dunken panel bitmap with round gauges, aligning with the Pavelow’s modern cockpit. The 16:9 widescreen bitmap is not tested for 4:3, and the mh53pavelow.zip by Erwin Welker requires MH-53J.cab gauges to function with other helicopters.

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Boeing 767-300 Panel For Dual Monitors

Two-monitor setup for a Boeing 767-300 cockpit spans aligned displays, presenting captain and first officer perspectives with an upgraded overhead and refined windshield framing. Created by Alan M. Harvey, based on Francisco Silva’s earlier concept, the freeware revision includes a dedicated panel folder and Gauges contents.

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B-17 Worn And Weathered Cockpit Number 2

Worn cockpit finishes for the B-17 Flying Fortress, by Paul Grubich, align with Accu-Sim dynamics to emphasize aged panels, faded labels, and scuffed levers. Sixteen files from the cocpit folder copy into the target directory, while night lighting is revised to reflect heavy daily use.

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Mooney Default Panel Partial Glass

An autopilot-equipped Mooney Bravo panel switches to a partial glass layout as J. D. Starseed reworks it with all default gauges. The modification uses Microsoft gauges to provide a second cockpit option for varied flight experiences.

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