SimControl

• Gives you access to thousands of Aircraft, Sceneries and other add-ons for your Flight Simulator.
• Unskilled users are able to install and use most of the existing Freeware add-ons.
• Installs downloaded Freeware in zipped or unzipped format!
• Checks and arranges all files automatically.
• Checks all installation files in order to find missing gauges, sounds, graphics, effect-files, or wrong formats.
• Handles deep folder structures as well as covered commands inside of "read me" files.
• Eliminates all unnecessary files, generates automatically a consistent folder structure for your aircraft, and places all files to their correct locations inside of Flight Simulator.
• Identifies standard Aircraft even in third party tools like My Traffic. Because the aircraft in My Traffic are (normally) not usable for flying, you have the opportunity to separate them in your Flight Simulator Aircraft selection windows.
• Validates all used paths and corrects errors if possible.
• Registers and checks all installed and used gauges, effects, sounds, panels, flights, sceneries, and Air Traffic flight plans.
• Change the used panels or sound patterns.
• Generate and manage your individual archives of aircraft, sceneries, and air traffic - all are just one mouse click away.
• The integrated maintenance assistant checks all facilities in your Flight Simulator and your SimControl archive, and gives you a brief explanation of all errors and problems.
• SimControl can correct many internal errors automatically and will help you keep your Flight Simulator clean and fast!
• Sim Control manages complete aircraft and scenery archives (even on different hard disks) proofs them, rearranges them and makes them ready to use for your Flight Simulator.
• SimControl helps you to maintain an overview of your aircraft, panels, sounds, and sceneries. To do so it generates a detailed installation description file for every single add-on and gives you the opportunity to organize your archive as you like it.
• With one mouse click, you can preview all graphic and text files, you can move, install and uninstall your add-ons, rename and organize, then order them into groups or delete them.
• Install your aircraft, start your Flight Simulator, proof the aircraft, scenery or flight plan without leaving SimControl and then organize the add-on the way you like.
• You need no experience for installing add-ons. You need no experience of the internal Flight Simulator structure to use add-ons.
• SimControl checks the creation date of all installed files, so you can be sure that you always have the newest gauges and sounds!
• Air traffic is one of the most important features; it gives your simulation the real touch. Many users are disappointed because they do not see much air traffic. One of the reasons is wrong or missing aircraft in the Air Traffic Database. SimControl automatically installs all available aircraft and marks the flight plans that are using a wrong or non-existent airplane. It takes only one click with the mouse to correct this problem.
• Even for newcomers it is quite simple to change or add flight plans, because SimControl does not use any special strange terminology.
• You can change existing plans, add flight plans, or change the aircraft in use. And for inexperienced users we integrate a database for all worldwide available airports with their location, city, airport, country and the necessary ICAO code, which is used to identify departure, destination, and other airports.
• SimControl works with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 and 2002.
• Installing new aircraft in Microsoft Flight Simulator can be a daunting task.
• Here you find reasons for most of the system crashes that occur: A wrong panel, some old outdated gauges, and your system crashes. SimControl has a wide range of tests, controls and error correction functions to help you through this obscure installation jungle.
• The same problem can occur while installing a scenery file. You install new scenery, start Flight Simulator, and the system crashes. With SimControl, you can handle this. SimControl can proof many rules, thereby giving you the chance to eliminate incorrect sceneries systematically.
• The maintenance assistant will proof all paths and files and will inform you if there are any problems (in so far as possible).
• Also integrated into your SimControl is a complete backup procedure, which will zip and save all the important Flight Simulator files. Confirm you have enough free hard disk space for your backup files before you install SimControl!
• For experienced users we integrated a special text editor with some helpful features. You can open error-related files directly with this editor. A complete list of all file specific commands will help you to find and correct errors on the fly.
• For the most important file types (aircraft.cfg, scenery.cfg, effect.fx, fs200x.cfg, panel.cfg, sound.cfg, flight files, and for all tokens and variables) we installed a complete language database. With a click on a command, you can search or insert it in the actual file. You also have a "pop-up menu" for opening the most important files of SimControl directly: a nice, small, but very helpful tool!
• SimControl scans, optimizes, and tests your existing installed files and all new (with SimControl) installed files! So we could optimize your current (installed) Flight Simulator too! You do not have to start from scratch!
• SimControl inserts a new section in our main menu: Charts! Here you can store and manage all documents, pictures, manuals and charts. With one click, you can open them directly with the program of your choice. This new section will help you to organize all your manuals and charts.
• A new export function will help you to organize and file all aircraft. You can export every single aircraft together with his panel and sound package.You can export your aircraft compressed and auto generate a read me file and a preview picture. For uploading the aircraft to our online database, you can automatically generate the installation script file.
• SimControl's maintenance scan is completely rearranged. You now have all functions on one main page. We call this area now "Service". We arrange the functions of the service area now in one global list. Here SimControl add several new functions. SimControl could fix the autopilot error in your Flight Simulator, install the new AFCAD 2 airport files, complete the small ATC airport list with thousands of new airports and move unused gauges to your SimControl archive. Compress and decompress your archive files - make a complete or individual backup before or after scanning. You can save the backup files compressed or uncompressed; you can choose what part of your Flight Simulator you want to backup. You also have a full restore function now.
• SimControl also improves the third party software recognition. SimControl will now leave all third party software untouched!

Minimum Specs: Windows 98/2K/XP; 128mb RAM; 50mb drive space