Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Miscellaneous Files
Sorted POI global cities and airports pack for FSDiscover!

File Description:
README: FSDiscover! Global Point of Interest pack. Here is a poi pack of roughly 147 000 cities, 40 000 small airports, 1 177 seaplane bases, 4695 medium airports and 475 of the largest airports. Airports are split up in categories, small, medium, big, seaplane base. Cities are split up into files of 10 000 cities each by size. There are 15 files for cities. The smallest cities are in xaa, xab, xac, xad, and so on. The biggest cities are in xam, xan, until xao. You should open the files in notepad to see for yourself which city files to activate in FSDiscover! to balance clutter and detail. This has been my main problem with the default populated places list; there is no way to sort by population size Compared to the default FSDiscover! populated places here are some notes: I have noticed that in the default FSDiscover! set for europe and many other places, the coordinates are placed like on a "honeycomb" grid which obviously is not very precise. In general, in terms of city map precision, this pack should be better. In the default pack, in an area I am familiar with, a city was placed on the other side of a river compared to reality. In many other areas, you can clearly see that the cities are not well-aligned with Ultimate Terrain europe or even some places in UT USA. My theory is that either data was not super precise for europe to begin with or that the dataset has been arranged in the honeycomb grid fashion perhaps to reduce clutter or something. Mostly though, the default populated places FSDiscover! file is very useful for really small villages since these tend to be forgotten in other datasets. The problems come when you want to filter out smaller villages or airports. This is where this pack comes in handy. Since no data is perfect, you can use this pack alone or in combination with the FSDiscover! defaults. Personally, I put the same files in both "Documents/FSDiscover Files" and "Program Files/FSDiscover" so I can pick and choose a useful combo from relevant sets inside the options. Personally, I prefer the cities from this pack and the rest (mountains, rivers etc.) from the default FSDiscover! pack. INSTALLATION: Just unzip the archived files into "C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\Documents\FSDiscover Files" or "C:\Program Files (x86)\FSDiscover!\geodata" or both! I do not know if the geodata folder is completely overwritten some times or not so keep that in mind. (probably safe, though) AUTHOR: fs9_2003 thanks to data made available by opendatasoft.com and ourairports.com The source for cities: https://public.opendatasoft.com/explore/dataset/geonames-all-cities-with-a-population-1000 The source for airports: https://ourairports.com/data

Filename:	Sorted_POI_global_cities_and_airports_pack_for_FSD.zip
License:	Freeware
Added:	6th May 2024, 14:13:54
Downloads:	53
Author:	Kim Husainov
Size:	3.18 MB

Category: Flight Simulator X - Original Aircraft
FedEx McDonnell Douglas MD-11F (N604FE)

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• FedEx_McDonnell_Douglas_MD11F_N604FE_1.jpg

File Description: The Boeing MD-11F aircraft, N604FE, named "Hollis" is based out of Memphis, TN and can fly both Domestic and International Routes. The MD-11F (53 built) are the Freight transport aircraft version and were the second variant on offer at launch in 1986, and was the last and longest (1988-2000) manufactured version. 22 MD-11F's were delivered between 1991 and 2001 to FedEx. According to Flight Aware, she flies mainly domestic routes daily. The aircraft is almost identical to the DC-10F, although BOEING modernized their model with a longer fuselage and more powerful engines, giving her a longer range and higher service ceiling. Most flights are at full payload, and those disclude the center long-range fuel tanks, and involve flights ranging between 2,000 and 4,500 nm. I've been dealing with several versions of this aircraft for many years, actually since the first offered on CompuServe for FS98 in the '90s, and through time have found many aerodynamic details that were required in order to make her fly realistically. The Internet slowly added the details I needed, and then came the testing. Needless to say, I've flown many versions, including this one, for way too many hours, and added and corrected things along the way. This version is the best I've ever done, and I've worked on her for about a year before this upload. Everything is aerodynamically correct, and the engines (and their placement) are beyond anything ever presented by anyone with anything like this previously. I even fixed the gear to be 100% authentic in placement and use. I tried to fix the lights, but the textures are from FS2004, so I did the best I could. I chose this aircraft because it is actually in service today, and because the painter did a great job in making her look authentic. She now flies in FSX just as she does in reality, but you are better advised to study this on your own, rather than take my word. Aircraft ratings by manufacturers are based on simple standards, and very conservative. FSX is a virtual “WIND TUNNEL” when realistic aerodynamics are employed, so we can see what aircraft are capable of if we do it all right. Sorry to say, no one ever builds a free aircraft for upload with the correct engine/aerodynamics employed. In fact, I don't think anyone, other than myself, has ever put that much effort into it. So, keep this in mind. What you have now is real. It is Free. Now learn from it. READ THE MD11Readme.txt document before any operation after unzipping this. Tri-Engine Sound by B.G. Hany; Textures by Bradley McCoy; Panel by Marco Spada; Real World Engine/Aerodynamics by Douglas E. Trapp, [email protected], June 2018. This aircraft is designed for educational use protected under the Fair Use Doctrine: (http://www.expertlaw.com/library/intellectual_property/fair_use.html) ... It cannot be sold or bundled for sale, and such will never be approved by me or the original authors. FREEWARE DISTRIBUTION ONLY!!!

Filename:	FedEx_McDonnell_Douglas_MD11F_N604FE.zip
License:	Freeware
Added:	1st July 2018, 02:41:02
Downloads:	1,474
Author:	Douglas E. Trapp
Size:	121.26 MB