This is meant to be an historical campaign, based on the carrier battles of the Battle of the Eastern Solomons (22-25 August 1942) and the Battle of Santa Cruz (25-27 October 1942. I named the campaign “Desperate Battles” because at this stage of the war the US Navy was fighting uphill. That is, they had fewer resources than the Japanese, in many ways inferior aircraft and less experienced pilots. In both battles, the Japanese are the attackers and the USN has to fight a defensive struggle. The dates, times and locations of each engagement (mission) are as close as possible to the actual ones. Ship names, locations and courses as well as aircraft numbers and types are as accurate as possible. Attack angles and targets are set up to give historical results, but you, the player can change history (slightly). The campaign consists of various missions; recon, strike, defensive and land based as well as carrier based. Random chance plays a big role in the numbers of defensive aircraft and in some cases, whether or not a target will be there at all. Call signs and aircraft skins however are not historical. Carrier task forces are set up to sail into a 15 knot wind on takeoff and landing. Using the alternate dps provided for the Usio ships and the FDG alternate files for US aircraft should make this campaign even more realistic and challenging.

There are Twenty parts of this mesh to download as separate files. ASTER GDEM Version 2 is a 30 metre definition DEM, its better than the version 1 data that ERSDAC, of Japan and NASA originally released, but it does have its limitations. GDEM has been obtained from a satellite that uses stereoscopic infrared scanning cameras, this brings with it problems in the resultant data.....where it sees the tops of trees, buildings etc, as the ground terrain. If you look at the jpg image with the terrain type errors shown as a graph, you will see that the only 'safe' terrain to use this data with - in FSX - is scrubland, or desert terrain. Its hopeless in defining the terrain in places like Europe - with all the artificial structures, (buildings) and different types of woodland, so any mesh I create from this data won't include areas like that....it will be more desert type terrain, and scrubland. I won't be doing Greenland because something about the ice around Greenland, (or any other land mass with ice) it creates false data. It does give enough fine data to reveal railway lines, and some roads though. This mesh has been made for FSX only. Grateful thanks to ERSDAC, and NASA for making this data freely available to the public. ASTER GDEM Copyright (c) 2009 - 2011 Earth Remote Sensing Data Analysis Center (ERSDAC) All rights reserved. ASTER GDEM is a product of METI and NASA.

Fictional textures for the default B737-800. Repainted by Jim Fly

FSX repaint textures N4379W for the Tim Conrad Grumman American AA-5B Tiger, which you must have previously installed in FSX. Your choice of 32 bit 2048 pixel textures (for maximum definition), or 32 bit 1024 pixel textures (for better frame rates). Install either one, or install both at once if you wish. Easy installation. Repaint by Tom Tiedman.

Hi-def scans of real VFR aeronautical United States charts, as available for download from the FAA, reduced and formatted in pdf form by me for use with flight sims. Display them in a kneeboard utility,print them, whatever...I like to use fragments of them to make pdfs for different flights, but that is only one way. If you want to "get real" about navigating in the sim the way it's done in real life, these charts are for you. But you might also just enjoy wandering around, comparing the chart to the world depicted in the sim. These charts will most likely be outdated by the time you use them, or your sim may even pre-date the charts, but they should work well enough. A basic guide for interpreting them is included, as well as tips on how to measure and mark them. Each chart also includes a handy chart legend, a map showing what region it covers, and airspace and frequency information. If you are unfamiliar with how to use them for navigation, be sure to check out my multi-part tutorial series "Compass, Clock, and Chart", available here at simviation.com.

CFS2 Set of background screens for Poland Universal Screen Designers has created another set of background screens, this time for Poland. These are different different from the set in the Poland39 Campaign, so you have a choice. Self installation code installs the screens and automatically updates the country.cfg file with the required changes. 2.8MB

CFS2 Lockheed Model 9F Orion. Fast light transport used during the Spanish Civil War. Original FS2000 aircraft by Tom Schaad. Modifications by Ron Vander Molen. 620K

15th BW Self-installing Scenery for CFS1. Scenery areas include, Calais, Cherbourg, Tangmere, USS Hancock, USS Lexington,(both landable) and a custom made German Island in the North Sea off Norway. The scenery utilizes standard CFS objects as well as Very nice custom macros, to give a true WWII look to all bases and areas. Over 300 hundred combined scenery objects. This is also, self-activating scenery. Rick Herring. 300K - see update below.

WWII Allied Airbase at Duxford, England v1.0 for CFS1 Very well equipped allied airbase utilizing the default Duxford dirt runway surrounded by a grass taxiway. You'll also find blast pens, search lights, custom signage, working fuel area, and more included in this custom scenery. Great care was taken in order to keep this base as realistic as possible all the while trying to create a very high quality and unique scenery. By Eric Jonas a.k.a. Mobster (980Kb) Eric Jonas.

FS2004 Airbus Splashscreen Collection 2 features a Lufthansa retro A321 a Ted A320 and a pair of A310's. Henry Douglas. 2.2MB