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AVSIM's VFR Flight Center  - Useful additions

A number of files are used in many of our flights. In stead of repeating the links to these scenery files and utilities for every flight, we have collected them here on on page for you to download if you so choose.

 
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Utilities & Programs
Scenery files
Favorite Aircraft

 
Utilities & programs      
name free/pay what is it where to find it
FSNavigator 4.x pay, $30 a program used to plan your flight and follow it. www.fsnavigator.com
FSNavigator 3.0 free The last freeware version of FSNavigator FSNavigator 3.0
FSFlightMax pay, $25 A very advanced avionics unit with many features:  Moving Map, Weather Radar, Real world charts, TCAS, Stormscope. FSFlightMax
Real World Charts pay (various) Real world aviation charts for use with FSFlightMax. Aeroplanner
FSFlightMax pay, $25 A very advanced avionics unit with many features:  Moving Map, Weather Radar, Real world charts, TCAS, Stormscope. FSFlightMax

 
Scenery files
name free/pay what is it where to find it
CLOUDS Replacement FS2000 Clouds v3.0 Real Pack 1  free

These replacement clouds v3.0 Real pack 1, are ultra realistic clouds that look excellent up close and far away. Makes those stratus, cumulus and thunderstorm clouds very realistic.

Here at Avsim
Eddie Denney's mesh pay and free ($18 or $25) Eddie Denney has made terrain mesh files for the US and the rest of the world. Especially the US ones are recommended. For Europe and other areas there are sometimes more detailed mesh files available. Many files can still be downloaded free from Avsim.com and Flightsim.com www.flightsimnetwork.com/realscene/
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The Netherlands 2000 free One of the best pieces of FS2000 add-on scenery available. The NL2000 scenery gives you the entire road and rail network of an entire country, plus all cities and industrial areas in actual size and form, plus most of the airfields in the country. Check out their website !! http://www.nl2000.f2s.com/index_main.html
Lennard's textures free Lennard Arvidsson has redone the majority of FS2000's texture files to give the world a more realistic appearance. Highly recommended ! www.textureart.homestead.com
Scenery index free The most comprehensive index of FS2000 scenery I have found so far... MUST HAVE !! Joachim Tangemann's FS World 2000 scenery index

 
Favorite Aircraft
FSD Pilatus Porter Pc6 B2-H2

Category: FS2000 Aircraft

FSD Pilatus Porter Pc6 B2-H2 - Resumable Download - ZipDive!

File Description:
Pilatus Porter Pc6 B2-H2 in two versions: Parachutist and Extended Range, both with unique textures created using new techniques. Included with these aircraft are probably the most sophisticated airfiles (flight dynamics) available to date. Also, two sets of panels and a set of Original Porter sounds recorded in Bordeaux, France, which where edited and compiled at 22,050 MHz 16Bit stereo. Design by Jim Goldman, Yannick Lavigne, Steve Small, Fred Banting, and Marco Rensen of Flightsim Developers (FSD) (JO)

Filename: fsdpc601.zip
Added: 21st November 2000
Downloads: 3536
Author: Flightsim Developers
Size: 24261kb
FSD Pilatus Porter Pc6 B2-H4 Extended Range Ski Version

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Category: FS2000 Aircraft

FSD Pilatus Porter Pc6 B2-H4 Extended Range Ski Version - Resumable Download - ZipDive!

File Description:
By: Jim Goldman, Steve Small, Marco Rensen, Manuel Medel Included with this aircraft is probably the most sofisticated airfile (flight dynamics) avaliable to date.(MR)

Filename: fsdpc602.zip
Added: 12th January 2001
Downloads: 887
Author: Goldman, Small, Rensen, Medel
Size: 6021kb
NATS DC-3 (R4D)

Category: FS2000 Aircraft

NATS DC-3 (R4D) - Resumable Download - ZipDive!

Other files which are parts of this package:

File Description:
The most authentic DC-3. New photo-real dual panel, quadrant, gauges, overhead and cockpit views. Unique gauge lights and cockpit spot- lights. New radios and auto pilot located on overheads, featuring real starting system. Sound pack, start-up and shutdown, recorded from actual DC-3. Real DC-3 flight dynamics. Max moving parts, unsynchronized retraction, see-thru windows/cockpit. Illustrated manual. By Bill Rambow, Roy Chaffin, and Jan Visser  Both files are required.

This aircraft is modeled after the R4D that is owned by the Mid Atlantic Aviation Museum (MAAM). This aircraft is in need of a new engine, and AVSIM is supporting a fund drive to acquire one. You can help put the real version of the R4D back in the air by making a contribution to MAAM's engine fund. Please donate by making a pledge here.

Filename: wjrdc34a.zip
Added: 4th June 2000
Downloads: 2549
Author: Rambow, Chaffin, Visser
Size: 11629kb
Douglas DC-3 Freighter TDM

 

Category: FS2000 Aircraft

Douglas DC-3 Freighter TDM - ZipDive!

File Description:
Based on the FS2K Douglas R4D-6 NATS v4.0 model. Features combined photorealistic/handdrawn textures,open pax/cargo doors,cargo,chocks, locks,RBF flags,full moving parts,cockpit and cabin nightlighting.Uses the R4D panel by Bill Rambow and Roy Chaffin (not included in this package).(MR)

Filename: dc-3_tdm.zip
Added: 10th March 2001
Downloads: 1144
Author: Jan Visser
Size: 3571kb

Category: FS2000 Aircraft

Douglas DC-3 Dakota, PH-DDZ - ZipDive!

File Description:
The Dutch Dakota Association's flagship features a photo-real panel and 7 cockpit views, realistic engine start-up sequence, sound suite recorded from the real aircraft, full moving parts, animated pax door, chocks, locks and RBF flags; night-lighted panel, cockpit and cabin; and an illustrated manual. (MR)

Filename: dc-3_ddz.zip
Added: 3rd May 2001
Downloads: 4204
Author: Jan Visser, Roy Chaffin, and Bill Rambow
Size: 20700kb
DHC-2 Beaver

Category: FS2000 Aircraft

DHC-2 Beaver 3 Pack, Version 7 - Resumable Download - ZipDive!

File Description:
Contains Float, Wheel, and Wheel-Ski models with panels and sounds. The de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver is one of the most successful and long-lived designs in aviation history. Designed to be the ultimate bush plane, 1631 of these rugged STOL utility aircraft were built between 1948 and 1967. An aircraft which, in over 50 years of service, has yet to be replaced.(MR)

Filename: beaver7.zip
Added: 19th July 2000
Downloads: 3198
Author: Fred Banting / Yannick Lavigne
Size: 7216kb
 

Category: FS2000 Aircraft

Douglas DC-3 Dakota, PH-DDZ - ZipDive!

File Description:
The Dutch Dakota Association's flagship features a photo-real panel and 7 cockpit views, realistic engine start-up sequence, sound suite recorded from the real aircraft, full moving parts, animated pax door, chocks, locks and RBF flags; night-lighted panel, cockpit and cabin; and an illustrated manual. (MR)

 
Filename: dc-3_ddz.zip
Added: 3rd May 2001
Downloads: 4204
Author: Jan Visser, Roy Chaffin, and Bill Rambow
Size: 20700kb

 

 

                       

 





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