Flight Simulator Addons Thread

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Hi guys,

been looking round these forums a bit now and can't find a dedicated thread for flight sim addons so here it is.

I have recently got the FS2004 installed again and got a lot of addons set up.

Think this would be a good place to discuss FS9 and FSX addons and a thread for addon advice and configurations etc.

My own setup:

I run FS2004 on one PC and then run my utilities in a Virtual machine on XP with the following addons using WideFS:

-Squawkbox for online flying
-Activesky Weather
-FSBuild
-FSCommander
-Live ATC Chatter

I only tried Widefs recently and it really is a great job. Saves having to run all the utilities on the background in the FS2004 machine.

My aircraft addons include the new Fokker 100, PMDG fleet and the Level-D 767.

I usually fly online a bit on vatsim which is just amazing. I set up flights with real world weather, load the aircraft using a load manager, import the data into fsbuild and generate a flightplan. From here then I can load the FMC with actual wind data included. It really is so realistic.


Any other addons utilities worth adding?

Hope this thread can take off as the official addon thread so that simmers can share their info.

Ringo
 
Scenery wise, I love Emma Field and back in the day when it was released for FS2002 it was very good scenery. I believe they've released a version for FS9/2004 too.

You might want to take a look at ProjectAi aswell. Some of there traffic packages are very good, plus they are free :)
 
hamesy said:
Scenery wise, I love Emma Field and back in the day when it was released for FS2002 it was very good scenery. I believe they've released a version for FS9/2004 too.

You might want to take a look at ProjectAi aswell. Some of there traffic packages are very good, plus they are free :)
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Forgot to put in about the AI stuff - have project ai installed. It is very good. I just am not a fan of the other big ai traffic packages. I always found that you get so many go-arounds due to the slow performance of the ai traffic. Project ai seems a much better solution.

Is there any way where you can make up your own timetables and add your own callsigns?

What about atc addons? I have looked at radar contact 4 but never bought it. There used to be editvoicepack for fs2002 but not sure what this addon does really.
 
You can get editvoicepack for Fs2004 aswell. I think it pulls data from a server and then updates FS with new callsigns. Not sure how it works, but I know most airline callsigns are added to FS, even a couple of virtual airline callsigns are included aswell.

I think with Fs2004, you could use a program called TTools to design custom flightplans. However you want to be careful because if you load too many flightplans into one airport, there won't be enough gates and you will have aircraft appearing from now where. You can overcome this though with AFCAD, and then download the separate AFCAD packages for different airports.

I wouldn't bother with Radar Contact as it was originally designed for FS2000 (I think anyway), and the only real use is to provide life-like ATC services, but like you said, you use Vatsim which provides much better ATC :p

I haven't used these for a while, as I'm not into FS much now, but some of the addons available for awesome.

You might want to check out avsim and also flightsim.com for some addons.
 
Thanks for the info - vatsim really is the business but you need to be sat at the pc for the duration usually. I often let it run for a while while crusing and do other things.

FlightSim.com is a great site.

I'd love to be up and running with fsx but my machine just isn't quick enough.
 
Well here's my list of ones for FSX patched and including Acceleration, there's a few of them, as I love the game and find enhancements a great way of keeping it fresh.

For AI I use My Traffic 5.1b
Scenery
Horizon VFR Photogenic Real Scenery - All 3 volumes, England and Wales.
Lukla X Mount Everest
Venice X
Aspen X

Airports
Heathrow X
Brussels X
Indianapolis X
Mega Scenery X Las Vegas

Graphics and Weather
Active Sky X
X Graphics
Shockwave 3D Light Redlux

Planes
RAZBum A6 Intruder
Piper Cheyenne X

Helicopters
Seahawk and Jayhawk

Think that's about it, though may be one or two freeware bits I've got hidden around.

Cheers

Taff
 
Some collection of addons there. I'm just in the process of setting up all my utilities on one machine and then connecting them to FS9 box using WideFS. Is it the same process for FSX? I am looking at getting a new windows box or else a mac pro and would like to be able to run FSX on it.
 
Guys, just a new addition to this thread is VRoute. A great tool that incorporates flight plan building, export facility, online vatsim info and the ability to automatically log flight plans straight to vatsim - very very handy!

http://www.vroute.net/
 
Anyone tried FSPassengers?

I've heard a lot of good things about this, I'm not sure if I want that level of realism, and having passengers complain about some of the stunts I perform :p
 
Never tried FSPassengers but it sounds good. I prefer flying online mostly with good atc on vatsim. Live chatter is all I need which is very good little app.
 
hamesy said:
I would love to fly on vatsim, but I feel like I may mess up and end up crashing into someone :p
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I started off a good few years back and there were so many apps you need to run and my pc always crashed so i got fed up with it. Now you only need one app (squawkbox). You are expected to be able to fly reasonably well but once you file a flightplan then put in the comments box that you are new and they will all go easy on you.

You can fly really by the book using approach and departure procedures but you need a good aircraft with an FMC to do this.

FSBuild and Vroute are great apps for flight planning. I use real world weather on vatsim too so it really is so realistic.
 
I was chatting to a friend about getting FSX but he commented that he had heard it can be quite a performance hungry beast and has given me his copy of FS2004. Happy and installing now :D

Do you need a joystick to play? Got a PS2 controller working I think, would that be an adequate substitute?

He told me to check out http://avsim.net/ and http://www.flightsim.com/ for freeware add-ons but I am totally new to this software.

Are any of the mods mentioned classed as essential to improving the game?

How realistic is it?
 
FS9

FS Global 2008
Ground Environment Pro
Flight Environment Pro
Aerosoft EGLL Heathrow 2008
Aerosoft EDDF Frankfurt 2008
Aerosoft LPPT Lisbon 2008
Aerosoft LEMD Madrid Barajas 2008
Canary Sim
Fly Tampa Dubai
Fly Tampa Miami
Fly Tampa San Fransisco
Fly Tampa Tampa
Fly Tampa Vienna

PMDG 737-600/700/800/900
Reality XP PMDG integrated weather radar
PMDG 747/400/400F
Level D 767-300
ActiveSky v6
Radar Contact 4
Ai Smooth 1.21
FTG AI v7 (absolutely fantastic AI package from my VA)
FSBuild 2.2
FTG ACARS v2.92
 
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