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| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| Airstrips of Central Germany |
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Another selection in my Airstrips of Western Europe project, herewith 80+ small airfields in central Germany, each enhanced with taxiways, parking spaces, buildings etc. and aprons as appropriate, to further facilitate the generation of lightweight AI traffic in the area, without overloading the more major airfields.
Again, there's no photo-realism here, just a selection of basic 'generic' buildings, more or less accurately sized and placed to reflect the airfield layout as seen on on-line satellite imagery and aerial photography. These buildings have minimal effect on frame-rates, so are ideal for this kind of job. The airfields are aligned as well as possible with the roads etc. in UT Europe and the Genesis Europe mesh, but should mostly be fine in a default installation or other configuration.
As before, the files for each airfield can be easily identified by the ICAO code, even if the airfield names vary slightly, so you can pick and choose and mix and match to suit any sceneries you already have, should you so wish. There is no requirement for any other download. Each airfield will exist as a stand-alone entity should you only want a few of them.
Please read the rest of this "blurb" in the included text file. There may be some details of note or interest.
| Filename: | Airstrips_of_Central_Germany.zip |
| License: | Freeware |
| Added: | 26th February 2025, 19:22:06 |
| Downloads: | 110 |
| Author: | Chris Eve |
| Size: | 1.14 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Original Aircraft | |
| Savoia Marchetti S.79CS "Sparviero/Corsa-Transatlantico" |
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Civilian "CS" (Competizione Sportiva=Sporting Race) versions of the known medium and torpedo bomber Savoia-Marchetti S.79 "Sparviero", deployed by Regia Aeronautica, or Italian Royal Air Force, were successfully flown (w/civil marks) in the "Istres-Damascus-Paris (Lindberg Cup)" 1937 air race, where they ranked the first three places of the final scoreboard. The also "civilian" "T" (Transatlantic) version of the very same S.79 performed exceptionally in the 1938 Atlantic crossing Roma-Dakar-Rio de Janeiro and in a 1939 experimental test meant to verify the feasibility of an airline passengers and mail line between Italy and South America for the civilian airlines (Ala Littoria S.A.- Linee Aeree Atlantiche, later called L.A.T.I./Linee Aeree Transcontinentali Italiane) over the routes of Southern Atlantic Ocean.
3 new different GMax models, covering 3 different versions of the civilian S.79 described above and featuring the standard animated parts, such as all flight controls, props pitch and leading-edge slats. Ten (10) different liveries depicting all the S.79CS team which flew the 1937 Istres-Damascus-Paris Race, the 1938 Roma-Rio de Janeiro Expedition and 1939 Transatlantic Test flight. This plane was originally developed for FS9, but an FSX version is also available in another separated release. VC only. GMax Models and Skins by Manuele Villa & Italianwings.Installation instructions included. By Manuele Villa/MVG3D, April 2016.
| Filename: | Savoia_Marchetti_S79CS_SparvieroCorsaTransatlantic.zip |
| License: | Freeware |
| Added: | 22nd April 2016, 22:22:42 |
| Downloads: | 327 |
| Author: | Manuele Villa |
| Size: | 54.25 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Miscellaneous Files | |
| Nick's LightFix |
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The concept and the base textures for this package are from Mark Poole and his original light replacement releases. Mark's original Nav Light package has a really good concept and uses light textures which create sharp lens flairs or bursts. I found the lens flair in his packages to be a bit too large and out of scale for my display and taste. Also, I wanted to have an easy way to replace all the FS9 lights in one shot with little or no configuration file editing. With that in mind, this package was created. This release will automatically replace ALL the Flight Simulator aircraft and airport lights with more realistic ones along with better distance visuals of slower flashing radio tower/smoke stack and ground beacons. It also includes replacement lights in scale for the PMDG 737, 747 and for all Project Opensky aircraft offered on their site. It works automatically with Ultimate Traffic and other AI add-ons which use the default Microsoft aircraft lights. I added a diffused halo effect to Mark's original airport_lighting_v2 texture which gives a more realistic look in cloudy or weather conditions and enhances the dynamic directional brightness of the lights. In addition to the navigation lights, I have also created aircraft beacons and strobes which will also install automatically . A restore package is included allowing to you to revert back to default FS9 texture and FX files.
ENJOY!
From Nick Needham
[email protected]
| Filename: | Nicks_LightFix.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 4th April 2006, 21:47:56 |
| Downloads: | 19,322 |
| Author: | Nick Needham |
| Size: | 1.55 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Original Aircraft | |
| Luftwaffe, D.F.S.-230 , Assault Glider, v.01 |
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At 4:30 A.M. on May 10, 1940, three Junkers Ju 52's took off from the Cologne airfields of Ostheim and Butzweilerhof, towing behind them three other aircraft that lacked motors. The first front service of a new weapon, the freight glider, developed by the DFS (Deutsche Forschungsanstalt fur Segelflug / German Research Institute for Sailplane Flight), had begun. A total of 41 DFS-230 freight gliders with 400 paratroopers were launched for this mission. It was their task to take the Belgian Fort Eben Emael near Maastrich. With this successful operation the crossing of the Albert Canal was secured and the cornerstone of Belgian defense fell in German hands.
These assault gliders were also used during the Krete invasion (1941). The DFS 230's last significant use was during the 'Eichen' operation: 10 assault gliders were used to deliver the group of hand picked commandos led by Otto Skorzeny against the Gran Sasso mountain-top hotel that was used to hold Mussolini. The Royal Italian Air Force (Regia Aeronautica) received from Luftwaffe, during 1941, almost 20 DFS-230 and 4 Gotha Go-242 assault gliders. These aircrafts were used only for pilot training until 09/1943.
Complete aircraft. Original GMAX hi-res model, features the usual moving parts, such as all flight controls, canopy, doors and so on (5 different versions); Five different liveries (4 'Luftwaffe' +1 "Regia Aeronautica'); multiview 2D panel (NO VC). Created by Manuele Villa.
| Filename: | Luftwaffe_DFS230__Assault_Glider_v01.zip |
| License: | Freeware |
| Added: | 7th June 2010, 11:07:00 |
| Downloads: | 2,141 |
| Author: | Manuele Villa |
| Size: | 17.37 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Original Aircraft | |
| Airspeed AS.5 Courier |
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FSDS V3.0 Airspeed Courier.
Has reflective Textures, usual animations, 2D Panel using all default Gauges plus a VC.
The Airspeed AS.5 Courier was a British six-seat single-engined light aircraft that saw some use as an airliner. Production aircraft were built by Airspeed (1934) Limited at Portsmouth. It first flew on 10 April 1933 and was the first British type with a retractable undercarriage to go into production, with a total of 16 built.
The prototype Courier was designed by Hessell Tiltman (co-founder of Airspeed Limited) and was built in 1932 by Airspeed at York for an attempt by Sir Alan Cobham to carry out a non-stop flight to India, using airborne refuelling. Airspeed moved from York to Portsmouth before the Courier G-ABXN first flew on 10 April 1933. The Courier was a wooden low-winged cabin monoplane; it had a novel feature for the day of a retractable undercarriage. The prototype was powered by an Armstrong Siddeley Lynx engine. The prototype had two minor accidents, in April 1933 at Portsmouth and in June 1933 at RAF Martlesham Heath. The aircraft was repaired on both occasions.
After a year spent perfecting airborne refuelling, Alan Cobham took off from Portsmouth in the prototype Courier on an attempted flight to India on 24 September 1934, being refuelled from a Handley Page W.10 before making a forced landing at Malta due to a broken throttle.
| Filename: | Airspeed_AS5_Courier.zip |
| License: | Freeware |
| Added: | 16th April 2017, 08:48:20 |
| Downloads: | 412 |
| Author: | Julian Higgs |
| Size: | 10.09 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Original Aircraft | |
| Piaggio P-166 Collection |
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This package contains an updated re-release of all my original Piaggio P-166 models developed for FS-2002/2004. All versions are included in a single package: P-166A, P-166BL-2, P-166CL-2, P-166M, P-166S, P-166DL-3 and P-166DP-1. The 3D models are the same, so these are fairly simple models. Yet they come with a VC (no 2D panel this time!). With respect to the original releases, they come with very much improved panels, in two flavors: Piston and Turboprop. Gauges developed by Milton Shupe & Scott Thomas for the Aero Commander / Turbo Commander Aircraft series, and Edgar Guinart López of Aeroproyecto for the Embraer 110. Other Gauges from my own Piaggio P-180 & PD-808. Also Included is a brand-new flight model redeveloped from scratch. Please refer to the Reference and Checklist pages provided via the FS Kneeboard for flying and operating instructions.
The Piaggio P-166 is a light small twin. An Exotic twin-engine prop that sold all over the world including America, UK, and Australia. Its origin is traced Back to the Piaggio P-136, a light amphibian, which the P-166 keeps the wings, the engines and the tail planes. The first P-166A flew in November 1957. The aircraft was still in production in the early 21st century in an improved turboprop version, the P-166DP-1.
| Filename: | Piaggio_P166_Collection.zip |
| License: | Freeware |
| Added: | 2nd April 2020, 17:50:35 |
| Downloads: | 511 |
| Author: | Mario Noriega |
| Size: | 40.89 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Original Aircraft | |
| AerMacchi C.205 VELTRO (Greyhound) |
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The Macchi C.205 (also known as MC.205,"MC" standing for "Macchi Castoldi") Veltro (Italian:Greyhound) was an Italian World War II fighter aircraft built by the Aeronautica Macchi.
The C.205 was a development of the earlier C.202 Folgore. With a top speed of some 400 mph and equipped with a pair of 20 mm cannon as well as 12.7 mm Breda machine guns, the Macchi C.205 Veltro was highly respected by Allied and Luftwaffe pilots alike. Regarded as the best Italian aircraft of World War II, in action it proved to be extremely effective, destroying a large number of Allied bombers and capable of successfully clashing on equal terms with such renowned fighters as the North American P-51D Mustang, but, although the C.205 was able to match the best Allied opponents in speed and manoeuvrability, it was introduced late in the conflict. Moreover, due to the poor Italian industrial capability of the time, only a small production run was delivered before the end of the war.
Italy's highest scoring ace, Adriano Visconti, achieved 11 of his 26 credited victories in the few weeks he was able to fly the Veltro, with the top scoring 205 Sergente Maggiore pilota Luigi Gorrini shooting down 14 enemy aircraft plus six damaged with the C.205.
VC only. GMax Models and Skins by Manuele Villa & Italianwings, Flight dynamics by Manuele Villa & Kikko Zanaboni. It also works (Tested), subject to some limitations, within FSX. By Manuele Villa/MVG3D, September 2012.
| Filename: | AerMacchi_C205_VELTRO_Greyhound.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 28th September 2012, 10:56:13 |
| Downloads: | 1,260 |
| Author: | Manuele Villa, Italianwings |
| Size: | 37.96 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Miscellaneous Files | |
| Project Opensky Boeing 747 FDE Suite- -Version 9.7, Revision D |
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This file is a *MANDATORY* Update!!! After many point-outs from members of the FS Community, I'm pleased to announce that ***ALL*** of the steering issues and maximum speed issues are fixed. Included Variants are:
747-SP
747-100
747-100SR
747-100SF
747-200
747-200C
747-200F (747-200F-PW-JT9D-70A Included)
747-300
747-300C
747-300F
747-300M
747-400
747-400D
747-400ER
747-400F
747-400LCF
747-400ER/F
747-400M
747-400BCF
VC-25A
E-4B
The supported version of the FDEs is now Version 9.7, Revision D. Now, you can finally turn the big girl when taxiing @ HNL or PAE... ;) Now, for the legal stuff: This package may NOT BE ALTERED, MERGED, REEDITED, REDISTRIBUTED OR UPLOADED AS PART OF ANY PAYWARE OR FREEWARE PACKAGE. LEGAL IMPLICATIONS EXIST with the air carriers which helped develop this package. READ THE MANUAL FOR BEST OPTIMIUM SETTINGS AND FAQ. This new 747 package inclues: - Correct 747 performance and feel based on airline FAA Level D simulators and documentation. - Use of MSFS payload and fuel editor. - Use of MSFS flight planner and Navigation Log for flight/fuel planning. - Use of true 747-100/200/300/400 landing gear footprint as default gear points, many realistic versions of 747 variants. - New physical contact point definitions. - New effects. The FDE included for this series are copyrighted by Project Opensky, Brandon D. Henry, and Warren C. Daniel. They may not be merged, altered and/or used for other uploads to any other aircraft without Authors permission.
| Filename: | Project_Opensky_Boeing_747_FDE_Suite_Version_97_Re.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 9th May 2008, 23:31:48 |
| Downloads: | 3,754 |
| Author: | Brandon D. Henry | Warren C. Daniel |
| Size: | 6.86 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| Airstrips of Scandinavia and the Baltic States |
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Effectively an extension of my "Airstrips of Western Europe" project for FS2004, around 140 sceneries of small airfields in Scandinavia and the Baltic states, each enhanced with buildings, taxiways, parking spaces and aprons as appropriate, to further facilitate the generation of lightweight AI traffic in the area, without overloading the more major airfields.
Given the available comprehensive coverage of both Norway and Finland by other authors, and much of Denmark by myself in my earlier "Airstrips of North-West Europe" upload, this selection comprises mostly small Swedish and Baltic State airfields.
Unfortunately, due to the very nature of much of the area, some of these airstrips are just that, a grass/dirt runway on a flattened/mown area in the landscape with just an associated building or two. Nevertheless, they do perform the required function of providing sources for AI traffic. The very existence of those airstrips not included in FS2004 is referred to in various on-line databases.
Again, there's no photo-realism here, just a selection of basic 'generic' buildings, more or less accurately sized and placed to reflect the airfield layout as seen on on-line satellite imagery and aerial photography. These buildings have minimal effect on frame-rates, so are ideal for this kind of job. The airfields are aligned as well as possible with the roads etc. in UT Europe (where applicable) and the Genesis Europe mesh, but should mostly be fine in a default installation or other configuration.
Please read the rest of this "blurb" in the included text file. There may be some details of note or interest.
| Filename: | Airstrips_of_Scandinavia_and_the_Baltic_States.zip |
| License: | Freeware |
| Added: | 11th November 2024, 17:25:16 |
| Downloads: | 109 |
| Author: | Chris Eve |
| Size: | 2.52 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Original Aircraft | |
| Piaggio P-166CL2 |
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Thanks to Andrew Spring of www.p166.com!!
The fifth of the coming P-166 aircraft series. I'm going to build the whole family of these graceful twins.
This file covers the whole production line of the P-166CL2!!! (Well, just 2...(-:)
The Piaggio P-166A is a light small twin. An Exotic two-engined prop that sold all over the world including America, UK, and Australia. he P-166CL2 was developed to take advantage of the cabin spaciousness of the P-166 series: a new landing gear that retracts under the fuselage into two small blisters lets expand the internal useful area more bakwards between the wings, as there is no central section. This lets the P-166CL2 accomodate 12 poassengers + pilot. The old gear bays at the side of te fuselage were replaced with two large windows that give a strange top-down view for the passenger. Tiptanks are optionally unattachable, as using them plus 12 passengers makes the plane go overweight. Means that the 12 passengers can only be transported on a considerabily short range. Only 2 P-166CL2s were built, due to the low-range caused by the small old-type tiptanks and the unstability of the new landing gear, that gave serious problems while taxiing. The P-166C is dated October '64, and converted to CL2 in 1972. The aircraft is still in production in a slightly modified turboprop version, the P-166D-P1. This model is 760 Kbs with c.a. 23000 polygons in c.a.170 assemblies. Features Clickable Dynamic VC with non-planar throttle quadrant. Detailed internals. Fully compatible with FS 2002 (pro edition)
| Filename: | Piaggio_P166CL2.zip |
| License: | Freeware |
| Added: | 4th April 2004, 18:02:21 |
| Downloads: | 5,617 |
| Author: | Mario Noriega |
| Size: | 7.23 MB |