Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Miscellaneous Files
Nick's AI Jet Exhaust With Control Gauge

File Description:
Hanging around the airport watching the A-I traffic and chasing A-I jet aircraft just got a little more interesting. Enjoy watching your entire A-I jet fleet as they display engine heat shimmer effects -after- push-back from the terminal and during taxi to the active runway. All the A-I traffic take off displaying a lite, expanding, frame-rate friendly and nicely scaled high throttle heat/exhaust trail FX which remain with the A-I aircraft during its entire flight. To top off the show, the A-I aircraft that are throttled down and landing display no exhaust from the engines! This package also comes with a gauge that allows pilot throttle control of the taxi heat shimmer/full-throttle exhaust FX for the jet aircraft being flown in the sim by the user. This package does NOT interfere with the logo, taxi or wing lights of any aircraft and comes with 5 all new exhaust effects files which can be applied to just about any size private, commercial or military jet. It requires editing/adding lines in the aircraft.cfg and panel.cfg files. The README files include very complete and comprehensive instructions including a quick and easy copy/paste file for all the Microsoft jet aircraft and tutorial on making custom gauges from the one provided. This package completely replaces my original *Nick's Jet Smoke* package and any/all updates for it. By Nick Needham

Filename:	Nicks_AI_Jet_Exhaust_With_Control_Gauge.zip
License:	Freeware, limited distribution
Added:	22nd December 2003, 21:16:01
Downloads:	29,957
Author:	Nick Needham
Size:	894.61 KB

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Utilities
FS Recorder 1.32

File Description:
FS Recorder is an add-on module available for FS2004 and FSX. It allows recording and playback of flights, similar as the instant replay and video recorder built into FS, but with a lot more features. The recorded flights can be played back either using the user's aircraft or as AI traffic, which allows you to fly formations with yourself. A number of settings allow to customize FS Recorder to your needs. The recorded flights are saved in a binary file format containing flight data and can thus only be played back inside FS. These files are no video files, so it is NOT possible to play them with a video or media player, or to convert them into video files. Features: recording flights of unlimited length * optional recording and playback of AI traffic * playback of one or multiple recordings as AI traffic * recording new flight during playback as traffic * replay of the last minutes, even if no recording was started * jumping and searching during playback * playback control via keyboard or control window * stop playback at any position to continue manually * loop part of a recording * change playback speed * custom keyboard controls * recorded data is customizable. The FS2004 version of FS Recorder additionally includes advanced view options, which give you more freedom when watching your flights: multiple tower/spot/VC views, selectable via menu or keyboard * optional manual panning of view direction in tower/spot views * automatic zooming * saving/loading sets of tower/spot/VC views.

Filename:	FS_Recorder_132.zip
License:	Freeware
Added:	31st December 2007, 15:42:39
Downloads:	6,369
Author:	Matthias Neusinger
Size:	410.31 KB

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Aircraft Repaints, Textures and Modifications
P51B Mustang War Weary

File Description:
A repaint of www.donationware.net 's P-51B Muatang (must have that to use this repaint). I painted the design and then weathered the whole thing (it's not so dirty looking in the book). One thing I had to do which is probably not correct is not join the thin blue and white arc going from the blue and white nose paint underneath the nose (which on the book's side view appears to be joined to the other side's arc). Due to some texture-mapping issues in the area under the nose , it would have been almost impossible to get a good looking joined arc so I made them both end in points on each side. In the side view of the picture I based this on, the wing gun ports are even covered (ie the wing leading edge is flush and without bumps or holes). Some of the text fonts appear to be unlike usual US fonts for the time ( I had to make the large W, D and 2 by hand without a font) Also something I could not alter is the canopy which was extended in the real plane making another seat for an additional person. The book has it shown with the following text ; Field-modified P-51B , WW (War Weary) 43-12193 , 335th FS , 4th FG , Debden, England June, 1945. Overall Insignia Red with Light Blue anti-glare panel.

Filename:	P51B_Mustang_War_Weary.zip
License:	Freeware
Added:	18th September 2004, 00:27:44
Downloads:	209
Author:	David King
Size:	2.74 MB

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
Carrier Division Two off Cape Cod

File Description:
This scenery places the two Yorktown-class aircraft carriers of the pre-WW2 U.S. Navy with a screen of four cruisers at sea 100 miles due east of Provincetown, Massachusetts, on the tip of Cape Cod. The ships are the Virtual Navy's Task Force 16 relocated and with the Hornet posing as the Yorktown. This package contains the carriers, cruisers, ship wakes, AFCAD files for all six ships and Arrestor Cables catch zones for the carriers. It provides start points on both carriers, on the catapults of all four cruisers, and in the water between the carriers for seaplanes. Also included are flight starts for Paul Clawson's Curtiss SOC Seagull on the catapults of the cruisers and for the plane of your choice on the carriers, and authentic repaints of the SOC for aircraft assigned to the cruisers plus one for the personal aircraft of the Admiral commanding CarDiv2. There is also a selection of Golden Wings splash screens featuring the ships and planes of CarDiv2. Carrier Division 2 is being released in celebration of Golden Wings 3, but works just as well in a standard FS9 installation. Catapult floatplane operations require the Carrier Operations Gauge Package and Paul Clawson's Curtiss SOC Seagull or another catapult floatplane. Ships and wake effects by The Virtual Navy, modified AFCAD files, SOC repaints, flights and ship placement by Mick Morrissey. A big Thank you to the Virtual Navy for allowing this use of their ships!

Filename:	Carrier_Division_Two_off_Cape_Cod.zip
License:	Freeware, limited distribution
Added:	17th September 2005, 12:50:26
Downloads:	3,290
Author:	Mick Morrissey
Size:	5.19 MB

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Miscellaneous Files
Nick's LightFix

File Description:
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: Combat Flight Simulator 1 and 2 - Aircraft
B25-B Mitchell Doolittle's Raiders A/C No. 40-2268 for The B24 Guy's OH

File Description:
B25-B Mitchell Doolittle's Raiders A/C No. 40-2268, April 18, 1942. Painted over The B24 Guy's B25 Mitchell Overhaul Model. This was mission plane #16. Pilot: Lt. William G. Farrow, Co-pilot: Lt. Robert Hite, Navigator: Lt. George Barr, Bombardier: Sgt. Harold Spatz, Engineer/Gunner: Cpl. Jacob DeShazer. The bomb group attacked targets in the Tokyo area. The North American B-25B was not designed or intended for aircraft carrier use, but there they were, sixteen highly modified bombers sitting on the deck of the USS Hornet (CV-8). They were modified to carry bombs to Tokyo. The B-25s are launched from their maximum range, and flew over Tokyo, bombing several installations. The bombs did little damage, but managed to damage the Japanese carrier Ryuho while it is in drydock. Many of the planes then head to wherever they can make it, since the fuel will be empty before they reach a friendly airbase. All of the B-25 bombers are forced to bail out or crash land except one. Eleven crews are forced to bail out over China, 3 crash land, and the last landed safely at Vladivostok. The crew that landed in Russia was interned, along with the plane, for a while. The crews were all volunteer, and had no carrier experience, yet all sixteen of the bombers were successful on take-off. Texture, and Damage Files included. Note the three windows in both port and starboard bulkheads.By revev. Enjoy!

Filename:	B25B_Mitchell_Doolittles_Raiders_AC_No_402268_for_.zip
License:	Freeware
Added:	30th July 2006, 20:11:05
Downloads:	66
Author:	Evan G. Butterbrodt
Size:	1.55 MB

Category: Combat Flight Simulator 1 and 2 - Aircraft
B25-B Mitchell Doolittle's Raiders A/C No. 40-2344 for The B24 Guy's OH

File Description:
B25-B Mitchell Doolittle's Raiders A/C No. 40-2344, April 18, 1942. Painted over The B24 Guy's B25 Mitchell Overhaul Model. This was mission plane #1. Flownby Pilot: Lt. Col. James Doolittle, Co-pilot: Lt. Richard Cole, Navigator: Lt. Henry Potter, Bombardier: Sgt. Fred Braemer, Engineer/Gunner: Sgt. Paul Leonard. The bomb group attacked targets in the Tokyo area. The North American B-25B was not designed or intended for aircraft carrier use, but there they were, sixteen highly modified bombers sitting on the deck of the USS Hornet (CV-8). They were modified to carry bombs to Tokyo. The B-25s are launched from their maximum range, and flew over Tokyo, bombing several installations. The bombs did little damage, but managed to damage the Japanese carrier Ryuho while it is in drydock. Many of the planes then head to wherever they can make it, since the fuel will be empty before they reach a friendly airbase. All of the B-25 bombers are forced to bail out or crash land except one. Eleven crews are forced to bail out over China, 3 crash land, and the last landed safely at Vladivostok. The crew that landed in Russia was interned, along with the plane, for a while. The crews were all volunteer, and had no carrier experience, yet all sixteen of the bombers were successful on take-off. Texture, and Damage Files included. Note the three windows in both port and starboard bulkheads. By revev. Enjoy!

Filename:	B25B_Mitchell_Doolittles_Raiders_AC_No_402344_for_.zip
License:	Freeware
Added:	30th July 2006, 20:11:26
Downloads:	134
Author:	Evan G. Butterbrodt
Size:	1.61 MB

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Aircraft Repaints, Textures and Modifications
PMDG C-40A clipper US NAVY

File Description:
You must own the PMDG B737-600/700 aircraft for these textures to work. These textures are for use with PMDG B737-700 with airstairs no winglets to be used in fs9, textures where saved in 32bit with alpha channels aplied. The textures in this file represent the real US NAVY C-40A clipper,of VR58/VR59 squadrons,which is based on the B737-700, but with strengthened wings and u/c from the B737-800. the PMDG B737-700 aircraft paintkit,as been reworked,in order to get this repaint scheme done,from photos on airliners net, as a guide,the mods are extra panel lines on the 4 main doors,to represent the hinged top and bottom sections, forward sevice door as been repositioned,so it is in line with the internal door,and the panel lines for the main port forward cargo door added,windows and blank window frames,altered to represent those on the C-40A clipper. Night textures and alpha channels modied to the same. the aircraft represented are JV829/832/834 of VR-58 squadron (sunseekers) and RY830/831/832/833 of VR-59 squadron (lonestar express). There is a bit of confusion,over aircraft reg and nose names,because the aircraft where swapped squadrons,832 is one example. i have included read me and instruction files,and jpegs to give help on getting these to work. textures by alan cottrill.

Filename:	PMDG_C40A_clipper_US_NAVY.zip
License:	Freeware
Added:	17th September 2006, 17:30:25
Downloads:	760
Author:	alan ottrill
Size:	20.35 MB

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Original Aircraft
Avro Lancastrian II

File Description:
A close derivative of the war-time Lancaster bomber, the Lancastrian was fitted with streamlined nose and tail cones. Lancastrians were used as long-range freighters, VIP transports, and jet engine test beds by the RAF, as fast long-range airliners and mailplanes by Trans Canada Air Lines, BOAC, BSAA, QUANTAS, and Alitalia, and as tankers by Flight Refuelling Ltd. Charter operators were Skyways and Silver City. Eighty-two aircraft were build, but most of them had vanished in scrapyards by the early nineteen-fifties. In the immediate post-war years, TCA offered twice-weekly Lancastrian flights from Dorval, Canada, to Prestwick and London, while BOAC and BSAA (under chief pilot D.C.T. Bennett) operated flights to Australia and South America, all based on a rather uneconomical ratio of five crew to up to fourteen passengers. The outbound leg from Hurn to Learmouth, Australia, took three days and well over fifty hours flying time, with Lydda, Karachi, and Ceylon serving as staging posts. BSAA's London to Buenos Aires flight took 56 hours. Either way, one needs to have plenty of time on one's hands to recreate these epic journeys. Gmax exterior model and textures by Manfred Jahn, FDE and 2D panel by Paul Edwards (based on a panel by Phil Perrott of Alphasim). The three texture sets included represent VM734 of 246 Squadron RAF, G-AGLY ("Norfolk") of BOAC, and G-AKFG of Flight Refuelling Ltd.

Filename:	Avro_Lancastrian_II.zip
License:	Freeware
Added:	20th May 2007, 10:45:54
Downloads:	6,651
Author:	Manfred Jahn and Paul Edwards
Size:	5.23 MB

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Aircraft Repaints, Textures and Modifications
Macedonian Aviation Douglas DC-3

File Description:
Macedonian Aviation was formed as a charter operator in the summer of 1972 with a Dove and one DC-3 G-AMPO based at Luton and later, Southend Airports. By February 1973 the Dove had been sold and operations continued with the DC-3. Operations steadily grew and by December 1973 charter flights started to be flown in the oil rig support business from Aberdeen. With this work increasing Macedonian looked for further DC-3s to expand its operations, and in March 1974 it purchased British Island Airways' remaining three DC-3's. The first of these, G-AMHJ and G-AMRA were in service at Aberdeen Airport by May 1974 and G-AMPO was moved back to Southend to continue charter flights from there. The oil companies were beginning to insist on turbo-prop aircraft for the transportation of their personnel. Macedonian started negotiations to replace the DC-3's with Viscount or Heralds, but these negotians were unsuccessful so operations continued with the DC-3's. The third ex BIA DC-3 G-AMSV eventually arrived at Southend in September 1974 but this aircraft never entered service with Macedonian. In November 1974 all aircraft were flown back to Southend and Macedonian ceased all flying having been unable to raise any finance to support turbo-prop operations, and the DC-3's were sold. This repaint is of G-AMPO. Requires default Douglas DC-3.

Filename:	Macedonian_Aviation_Douglas_DC3.zip
License:	Freeware
Added:	14th April 2007, 18:28:39
Downloads:	240
Author:	John Payne
Size:	1.63 MB