Utility's are programs extending the possibility's of FS2000 or teaching you how to get most out of it.
Addit! Pro v 4.1.3	Addit! Pro (6.109Kb). Addit! Pro is a comprehensive addon manager for Flight Simulator 2000. Easily install, manage and remove adventures, aircraft, flights, panels, scenery, sounds, textures and videos. Archive addons to Addit! Pro's File Cabinet or recreate them in zip files. Modify aircraft, panels and sounds. Addit! Pro can even automatically update FS's scenery library (Scenery.cfg). Shareware $19.95 for full version. Supports FS 2000 Std. or Pro. By Joseph Stearns
Replacement Moon v1.0	Replacement Moon v1.0 (363Kb) . 5 different very realistic models included. By Chris.
Clouds v3.0	Replacement Clouds v3.0 Real Pack 1 (346Kb) . Ultra realistic clouds that look excellent far and near. Make those stratus, cumulus and thunderstorm clouds very realistic. By Chris. Chris Ellis Original.
Smoke	Replacement smoke v1.0 (87Kb), more realistic and looks like vapour trail. By Chris
Addit! Pro	V4.1.3 Addit! Pro (6.109Kb). Addit! Pro is a comprehensive addon manager for Flight Simulator 2000. Easily install, manage and remove adventures, aircraft, flights, panels, scenery, sounds, textures and videos. Archive addons to Addit! Pro's File Cabinet or recreate them in zip files. Modify aircraft, panels and sounds. Addit! Pro can even automatically update FS's scenery library (Scenery.cfg). Supports FS 2000 Std. or Pro.By Joseph Stearns.
Replacement Clouds v1.0	Replacement Clouds v1.0 These are the same clouds in FS2000 but with much more transparency than the clouds set v1.0 make those stratus, cumulus and thunderstorm clouds more realistic. You need pack one (926Kb) and pack two ( (885Kb) By Chris.
Replacement smoke	Replacement smoke v1.0 (87Kb) for FS2000, more realistic and looks like vapour trail. By Chris.
Polygon Repair Patch	Polygon Repair Patch. (843Kb) This program is designed exclusive for use with FS2K. The program searches for and repairs scenery files that contain specific types of defects that can cause FS2K to 'crash'. The program also contains a 'Restore' feature, which restores the original FS2K files. By John Mooney, Summit Aviation Inc.
FSFailure	FSFailure v1.1.0 (716Kb). Tested on FS2K, should work on any simulator supported by Peter Dowson's FSUIPC (v1.94 or higher). Fixes FS2K's pre-planned failures by creating random system, radio, engine, and instrument failures based on probability settings. By Jim Schein
Time Zone correction	Time Zone correction files (12KB) new version 1.9h 04/12/00.These BGL files correct Time Zone anomolies in both FS98 and FS2000. This version also corrects Bermuda time zone problems. By Dennis Thompson. Please inform the webmaster if the file is not available anymore.
Keyboard Templates	Printable Keyboard Templates in MS Excel 95, showing the default keyboard assignments with spare formated sheets ready for you to record how you customize your keyboard, should you so desire. It has color which you can removed for non-color printers. By Gary Geoghegan
FSUIPC 1.99	FSUIPC (125Kb) is designed to allow external (i.e. separate) programs to communicate with and perhaps control Microsoft Flight Simulator. Not needed for FSNavigator. By Pete Dowson.
Wideserver and Wideclient 3.99	Network interface (197Kb) for FS98 and FS2000 applications using the FS6IPC interface. Use version 1.91 or later of FSUIPC with this version of WideFS. Makes it possible to use add-ons at seperate PC without running fs2000. By Pete Dowson.
Rwyinfo gauge	A popup Window (384Kb) to which contains a database of ILS /OBS frequencies for most airports. On double clicking on a runway line the Nav1 Frequency / OBS are automatically set for you in FS2000 and the window is closed. By Ernie Alston
Keyboard Templates	Printable Keyboard Templates(21k) in MS Excel fomat, showing the default keyboard assignments with spare formated sheets ready for you to record how you customize your keyboard, should you so desire. By Gary Geoghegan
Aircraft Installation Utility	Aircraft Installation Utility v4.0. (470Kb) This Program simply copies all the files that constitute an aircraft, scenery or panel in the correct directories. It isn't a manager, this means that you need this program only if you want a simple and fast utility that with a couple of clicks can install your aircraft directly from it's zip archive. By Francesco Aruta
Sailplane take-off	Two files, one (140Kb) and two (1308Kb), explaining how to take off using a sailplane. By Milos Koch.
FS-PAUSE	Urgent phonecall during long distance flight? No problem: tell fs-pause (15Kb) how long to fly on and when to pause to prevend a overshoot. By King Ingersoll.
Scenery.cfg manager	A very neat, simple program (290Kb) to edit the scenery.cfg file. Adds new scenery and exclude/flattens more simple then using ordinary editors or the fs2000 menu. Please inform me when the file is not available anymore. By Hans Hartmann.
Voice Master 2.4	Voice Master 2.4 (build 49) Lite.(3,378Kb) New and Improved. << Needs Voice Master Speech engine >>. This is a voice recognition and application control program for the flight simulator. Provides optional speech synthesized responses that can be used to simulate an inflight multi-voice co-pilot. Tested under Windows95/98/NT and 2000. Push-To-Talk facility added (for any machine running under Windows 98,2000 @ CPU>266Mhz). By Kamtel CS.
FSCOM	FSCOM-Tweaker (version 4.20) (1,193Kb)for FSCOM2000. This tweaker recovers many bugs of FSCOM2000 and inserts more than 45 new features for a better realism of ATC adventures. Previous versions are included. By: Torsten Baumbach
Pilot Series Checklist	Pilot Series Checklist IV.(54Kb) 24 new checklists of commonly used planes. You can read them using a textreader but also import them into FS2000 for inflight use. Read the instructions carefully. By Chris van Bijlert.
FSAssist	FSAssist (2,3Mb) is a neat add-on that expands the functionality of FS2000 with modules like Framerate Enhancer (manages your framerate), Enroute Traffic (shows planes in flight while you cruise), Autosave (automatically saves your situation every few minutes), FSMouse (use the mouse wheel in FS2000). Fully functional shareware program, with time limitation. By Lago.
Pilot Series Checklist	Pilot Series Checklist.(54Kb) 20 checklists of commonly used planes. You can read them using a textreader but also import them into FS2000 for inflight use. Read the instructions carefully. By Chris van Bijlert.
Fuel Calculator	Fuel calculator (39Kb) for aircraft with database functionality. Requires Microsoft Excel. By Ingo Goldak
FSAssist	FSAssist. (2,488Kb) A program that expands the functionality of FS2000 with modules like Framerate Enhancer (manages your framerate), Enroute Traffic (shows planes in flight while you cruise), Autosave (automatically saves your situation every few minutes), FSMouse (use the mouse wheel in FS2000). Fully functional shareware program, with one month time limitation. By LAGO.
Scenery SDK	The Scenery SDK (953Kb) a very important SDK which will probably make better scenery design utilities possible within a few weeks. Includes explanations and examples of the concepts and elements used to design scenery for Flight Simulator. In particular, this SDK both explains and provides a programmer's reference for the BGL graphics language; it also explains the BGL files that contain scenery. You'll find sections that include more advanced topics dealing with the specifics and subtleties of scenery design. Important: The information included in the Scenery SDK is intended as a reference for programmers. It assumes familiarity with C programming language, Macro Assembler (MASM), and game development. By Microsoft.
Super Flight Planner v2.5	Super Flight Planner v2.5 (Preliminary release, 1,700Kb). iAdvanced freeware Windows Flight Planner and Adventure Generator. Can generate adventures using its own engine or, if you have it, for Radar Contact by John Dekker. Can export data to a lot of GPS's, Moving Maps and so on. Also included in this package: ACSAGSFP (ACSoft Adventure Kernel v1.3.2) by Alain Capt. By: Alessandro Antonini
GPS v1.2	GPS v1.2.(1,518Kb) A simple application that allows a user to easily install the FS2000 GPS into any panel. By Matt Kaprocki
ADVDISP	Removes the Adventure text messages (scrolling or otherwise) from the outside view window and puts them into a controllable window, one you can position yourself to suit your panel. July 4th (14 KB) By Pete Dowson.
SDK part 4 (terrain)	The Terrain SDK (2.305Kb) provides several tools and documentation for those of you interested in adding terrain to Flight Simulator 2000. The Terrain SDK describes how to turn DEM (Digital Elevation Mesh) data into scenery files for use in Flight Simulator. This SDK doesn't require any programming skill, however, it does involve working with the extremely technical information related to DEM data.
SDK part 3 (panels)	This part of the official Software Development Kit (1066Kb).This SDK is specific to the Panels section. Only useful for software developers. This part is in acrobat pdf format.
Sim Logbook	SimLog (1,609Kb) the quick and easy Flight Simulator logbook. Log your flights in the log book and get on screen summaries and detail and printed as well. SimLog is written in Microsoft Access 97. You will need Access 97 or Access 2000 to use SimLog. By Mitchell Atchley
Flight Timetable v2.5	Flight Timetable v2.5 (1.154Kb) Freeware utility to use and exchange timetables. By Hrvoje Grcic
GAU Cleaner	GAU Cleaner v2.0. (39Kb) GAU Cleaner will help you to remove unused gauges. (It removed 25Mb of gauges from the webmasters HD) By Nicola Marangon. Version 2.3 is shareware.
Weight and Balance Computer	Weight and Balance Computer v1.2 (850Kb). Updated standard configurations and more aircraft supported. The Weight and Balance Computer is the power-user's dream come true. Now you can control the specific weight of your favorite FS2000 aircraft! See and feel the difference between unloaded and a takeoff at Max Gross Weight. Watch how the aircraft struggles to get off the ground when you add pounds to push the weight over Max Gross Weight! By Michael Lyons
Pilot Series Checklist	Pilot Series Checklist (69Kb). 14 individual checklists, all designed to be as accurate and realistic as possible within the limitations of FS2000. By: Chris van Bijlert
THERMAKE 1.11	THERMAKE 1.11 (3,611Kb) Random thermal generator for virtual soaring everywhere you want in FS. By Michel Polski
Voice Master	Voice Master 1.0.42 Beta (4,509Kb) NEW AND IMPROVED << FULL PKG >>. This is a voice recognition and application control program for the flight simulator. Provides optional speech synthesized responses that can be used to simulate an inflight multi-voice co-pilot. Tested under Windows95/98/NT and 2000. By Manuel Santos. New version available (above)
FlightZip 2000	FlightZip 2000 vs 3.0 (1,296Kb) is a freeware tool made compatible with both FS98 and FS2000. FlightZip extracts ZIP files containing aircraft, panel, sound, scenery and adventure and install the files into the correct directories. In addition FlightZip 2000 has got a built-in Aircraft Manager and Addon Editor. By Arnt Helge Haaland. Update to version 3.1 here.
GPWS2000	Ground Proximity Warning System (84Kb) for FS2000. This is the fs2000 update for the great GPWS98 made by Wilco van Deijl. You will still need GPWS98. Update made by Ernie Alston.
Turboprop soundset	Turboprop soundset (3,082kB) for small liners as J31, EMB 120, SAAB 340. By: Reinhard Herrmann
APLC v1.32	APLC v1.32.(786Kb) Works with FSUIPC by Peter Dowson to provide some extra weather facilities For Flight Simulator 2000. Downloading and installing FSUIPC also fixes the weather problems caused by Flight Simulator 2000. APLC32 is a compiler for adventures that supports all Flight Simulator versions. By: Martin H. Smith
Thunder wavs	A complete set of enhanced default Thunder wavs.Two files needed one (3.457Kb) and two (2,960Kb) These wavs have been converted to stereo and I have added volume plus spatial surround sound, now you really hear the rolling, cracking thunder around you. By Mike Hambly.
Autosave	Autosave (8Kb) It will save flights ("STN" files) at regular intervals, so you can retry that crashed landing or quickly recover from other problems. By Peter Dowson.
WETTER 2000 v1.1	WETTER 2000 v1.1.(1,228Kb) Creates random and real weather. You may create enroute weather with departure and destination airports, world weather for pre-defined or your own areas, weather from a FS2000 flight plan, changing weather, real weather (METAR or SAO files). By: Klaus Prichatz
MAKEPINK v1.1	MAKEPINK v1.1.(18Kb) Adds the soft pink night lighting to FS98/CFS gauges. Works with more gauges, including the large CFS "clustered" GAU files. A new option adds FS98-style night lighting to unlit gauges. By: Chuck Dome
Aplgen 2.6	Aplgen 2.6 (707Kb) builds flights using a database of pre-written flights (2,167 in the current release). You select the flight; APLGEN builds the adventure, and the selected Navigation and waypoint files to be used with the more popular GPS/Nav type add-ons for Flight Simulator. APLGEN creates realistic ATC adventures for IFR Airliner type flights and the information used to create the adventure is used to build the files for the FS add-ons such as GPS98, EFIS 2.5, EFIS98, NAVDASH, DPGPS, ACS-GPS, NAVSTAR99, FSNavigator, and Apollo's First Class 747 Panel, FS2000 GPS. Please inform the webmaster if the file is not available anymore.
SDK part 2b (aircraft)	Second part (b) of the official Software Development Kit (127Kb).This SDK is specific to the Aircraft section. Only useful for software developers. This part is in acrobat pdf format.
SDK part 2a (multiplayer)	Second part (a) of the official Software Development Kit (33,6Kb).This SDK is specific to the Multiplayer section. Only useful for software developers.This part is in acrobat pdf format
SDK part 1 (adventure)	First part of the official Software Development Kit (343Kb).This SDK is specific to the Adventure Programming Language (APL). Only useful for software developers.
WinBGLzip	WinBGLzip v1.0. (51k) Allows you to compress and decompress scenery files (eg. bgl's). By: H. Schmidt
Autoland 2000	A simple adventure utility (4K) that will add autoland ability to virtually any third party aircraft when using the autopilot's ILS "approach" mode feature. By John Cillis
Cache manager	Cache manager (496Kb) . Noticeably fs2000 improvement reported (less stuttering). That's why this freeware file has been added here. Choose 3D game settings within this program to get the best result. I guess most improvement if you have only 32Mb or 64Mb available. By Outer technologies. Report me when this file is not available anymore.
Raindrop Enhancement	Small replacement (144Kb) .bmp-file that corrects two aspects of the default rain in FS2000: First, raindrops don't appear coin-sized when looked at normal head to windshield distance. Second, water appears blueish only at massive conventions like oceans e.g. Also adds great realism to full deck views, where the default raindrops seem snowball-like. To become sure, take a look at the preview.jpg. By Frank Maetzler
Scenery Decompression definitions SDK	Definitions for bgl file decompression (95Kb) . Experts file for developers using the bgl decompressing utility. Proves the open minded view of the MS development team. This SDK has been released to make the FS98 (free) add-ons fully FS2000 compatible.
Claudia Schiffer.....	Claudia Schiffer being your co-pilot. Can this be considered being a utility? I decided yes......Please inform me when she's not available anymore.
Time zones image	A useful image displaying the world's time zones (75Kb)for all those on line pilot's wondering what their destination's local time is. By Kyprianos Biris
FS2000 screensaver	Not a real FS2000 utility but it belongs at this part of my site: A FS2000 screensaver, delivered by Microsoft UK. (2,6Mb)
Bitmap editor	FS2000 Extended-Bitmap Editing Utility. (217Kb) A utility to allow the editing of the extended-format bitmaps supplied with Combat Flight Simulator and FS2000. Edit images and sub-images in your favorite paint program without destroying any of the extra data. Create extended-format bitmaps from ordinary bitmaps. By Martin Wright. Originaly made for CFS but this meets FS2000 standards.
Flight Crew Sounds	Fltcrw-2k: Flight Crew announcements v2.0 By: David G. Snowden
Scenery decompressor	The detailed scenery files in Flight Simulator 2000 are compressed to reduce the amount of disk space required. The files are not encrypted, just compressed. If you're a user or developer who has modified and worked with .bgl files in previous versions of Flight Simulator, you'll need to use a free downloadable utility (152Kb) to compress and decompress .bgl files for Flight Simulator 2000. To download the free utility, click on the link at the end of this article. Made by Microsoft.
Planner import navaids	Allnav97.(191Kb) I didn't expect this file may be useful for FS2000 as Microsoft included all Jeppesen navaids into the simulator. BUT: these navaids can't be accessed by any external planner so you will still need the bgl files included in allnav to make a nice set of navigational points to import into your favorite planner like Fsnavigator. Doesn't include US/Canada navaids.....By your humble webmaster.