Many thanks to:

 

Scruffy Duck for ADE

Dino Cattaneo for his fine Naval aircraft

Gottfried Razek for his excellent Blue Sky scenery

FS Recorder

Anthony of Ant's airplanes

Bernt Stolle and Alexander Metzger for their free FDE files

Daniel Fuernkaess, Manfred Jahn , Alexander M. Metzger and Hansjoerg Naegele for the BT-67

Milton Shupe et al for their many fine works

Edit Voicepack group

and all the repainters and scenery makers that make our hobby so interesting

God, the freeware guys n gals are just too numerous to list, so ALL OF THEM!!!

 

ALSO though..... A H U G E thank you and M U C H cudos to all those payware folk, albeit developers or publishers, ESPECIALLY Flight1 Software, who supply either FREE DEMOs or no quible refunds. You are the dogs wottsits in my book;-)

Milton Shupe for his great D18 and Dash 7

Tim "Piglet" Conrad for the Pilatus Porter and many others

Paul Weller for his Caribbean scenery

Manfred Jahn for his wonderful Connies and DC-3

 

Milton Shupe for his great D18 and Dash 7

Tim "Piglet" Conrad for the Pilatus Porter and many others

Paul Weller for his Caribbean scenery

Manfred Jahn for his wonderful Connies and DC-3

Looking at my flightsim toolbox, my "fav's-for-free" got to be:

 

1. SPAD

2. FSrecorder

3. ADE - Airport Design Editor

4. GA-Traffic

5. Arno's Model Convert X

6. SBuilderX

7. DXTbmp

8. FSUIPC

9. Scenery Config Editor

10. TrafficTools

11. AI Flight Planner

12. Nvidia Inspector

 

and to make it a 'Baker's dozen'

 

13. SimLauncher for Prepar3D by Maartin

 

and a few honorable mentions:

 

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GMAX

Plan-G

Edit VoicePack

AI-Smooth

and last and most likely least is FDSFX

 

Most of those would be on my list also, i would also add AICarriers and FSEarthtiles

 

Kudos also to the original legit freeware developers (not the ones that use others work and call it there own)

Ray Smith for his numerous and excellent AFCAD's for FSX.

Basicly you need 2 things autohotkey and a script developed by avsim member

check this thread on avsim for explanation script download etc.

 

Thank you.. that's a pretty niffty tool. it works like a charm

Thank you.. that's a pretty niffty tool. it works like a charm

 

You might wana check-out flight-one "Sound Stream" , this tool allows fsx sound to continue at a set volume even if you got another window in focus.

 

Usefull when am browing web in flight, but prefer to keep hearing fsx sound even though WebBrowser is in focus.

 

Sound Stream not free though, but helps complete the circle started by the full screen tweak.

Milton Shupe for his Dash 7, Beech D18 series, Aero Commander series, A26-B Douglas Invader, Avia 51, Avia 156, etc, etc

Lee Swordy for AFCAD and TTools

Jon Scruffyduck

Pete Dowson

Project Fokker

Alex Wemmer for his vasFMC gauges

FSNavigator

Premier Aircraft Design (Jean-Pierre Brisard, RIP and Barry Blaisdell, RIP)

AI Traffic Mover

Dreamwings

 

PS New Shupe Dash 7 nearing completion - simouthouse forum has details.

Alexander Alrot- upgraded 737 cockpit with rain effects and his other stuff MD83 etc

Ray Smith- afcad updater

Vatsim and Ivao developers

Project Airbus v3 François Doré

Word Not Allowed and *******

Vasfmc

thomas ruth.

 

the Gold medal has to go to Vatsim in my opinion, if you haven't tried it, stick with connection riddles becasue its worth it in the end.

The Poll was about freeware so PMDG should not be mentioned [as good as it is]

Freeware: Rick Piper [spend hours&hours in his HS748]

Garrett Smith the first to update the FSX textures [leopard skin and sand in the mountains, a beautiful new GPS]

Scruffyduck Jon Masterson for ADE

Aimé Leclercq al sorts of textures, improved landscape textures.

The NL2000 team, Joop Mak and many others for their superb rendition of the Netherlands.

The WOA team.

Thomas Ruth [planes and scenery]

David “Opa”Marshall [RIP]

And probably a lot more people whom I forgot yet who made the Sim more beautiful with big and small tricks.

[ooh and myself for the " shockwave_lights!SW Lights_taxi_gear, 1,1,1,1 " making the 3D redux taxi lights switchable :blush: ]

Lennart Arvidsson of SWED2011 fame. Nobody makes better quality freeware scenery!

I can't believe I forgot to mention FSrealWX!