Enhancing your flightsimulator experience, that's the main goal we had in mind when we designed Enviro! We worked hard on making this program for the pc, and now you can use it, for free too. So... what can Enviro! mean for you and your flight simulators like Fly!, Fly!2K, Fly! II, Flight Simulator 2004, Flight Simulator 2002, Flight Simulator 2000, Flight Simulator 98, X-Plane, Falcon 4.0, and Falcon 4.0 SuperPAK ?

You do not have to be online to enjoy chatter when you are flying. Enviro! uses wave files that are stored on your computer. The program can handle a virtually unlimited amount of wave files, so you will never get bored listening to the random chatter - Enviro! makes it varied. If you do get bored, just download more ATC wave files from the internet, store them on your computer, and enjoy a more varied chatter. Or create your very own wave files using Enviro's Recording Area. This also enables you to create your own checklists that can assist you in operating your aircraft. Using specific hot keys in-flight, you have full control over the playing of your favourite sounds.

Enviro! allows you to set up multiple Banks, each bank containing different wave files. This allows you to create different styles of chatter. You can easily change the current Bank that Enviro! is using to play wave files by using hot keys. You can use these hot keys when you are flying in your flight simulator, allowing you to enjoy varied chatter. You can also temporarily start or stop Enviro!'s chattering with these hot keys, which is useful when you are actually using your simulator's features. You can fully customize all Banks. You can configure the wave files to be played in a random or forced order, using specific delays between the playing of wave files if so desired.

But that's not all of Enviro!'s features of course. You can have Enviro! download the latest METAR (weather) data from the internet, and use it in your flight simulator, if it supports that! For example, you can start Fly! and meanwhile let Enviro! download the realtime weather. In Fly!, you can then import this weather - which will provide you with a truly realistic flying environment.

You can also easily start your flight simulator by selecting it in the Enviro! user interface, and clicking a single button. Before you click this button, you can setup the desired ATC environment, and/or download the latest METAR data into the flight simulator's METAR folder. Enviro! also allows you to start other freeware utilities such as InfoMETAR, ThinMetar and Sky!. You are able to quickly calibrate your yoke or joystick and view your current IP address, useful for when you are flying with other pilots.

The program's name Enviro! is thus easily explained: the program creates a fun environment to fly in.

Enviro! comes with a detailed and easy to use HTML Help system which will learn you how to use and explore Enviro!'s many features. You can use the Help system to learn everything about Enviro!'s user interface, and how you use the program in the most efficient way.

Enviro! is free to download and use, and will work together with some of the most popular civilian flight simulators available today. It has been written for use with Fly!, Fly!2K, Flight Simulator 2004, Flight Simulator 2002, Flight Simulator 2000, Flight Simulator 98, Falcon 4.0, and Falcon 4.0 SuperPAK, but you should be able to use the ATC features with most latest sims.

Note: Enviro! does not modify your flight simulator installation and settings. It is safe to use, and requires just very little system resources. There will be hardly any decrease in system performance when you are using it.

At this moment, we offer our official Enviro! 3.2 release for download. Please note that the future of Enviro! depends on the comments and suggestions we receive back from its users. When you are using Enviro!, please email us and let us know what you think of the program. Is it easy and fun to use? Do you consider Enviro! to be a useful enhancement for your flightsimming? Do you have any comments, questions, suggestions or bugreports? Please let us know - we really appreciate your feedback. And we will use it to improve Enviro!

features Fully customizable ATC and Checklist chatter - play wave files in a random or forced way Checklist Play - create and play back your own aircraft checklists Thirty Banks, allowing you to create different bank styles and/or checklists Fully configurable Hot Keys for use while you are flying your flight simulator Integrated and easy to use Help system Reliable METAR download Recording Area - record your own wave files and checklists Integration with David Sandberg's InfoMETAR and ThinMetar utilities Integration with How in the World's Sky! utility System Tray support - for quick access to Enviro!'s main features Quick access to the yoke/joystick calibration screen IP information - useful for when flying online with other pilots Time Zone information

To use Enviro!, your hardware and software should comply with the following system requirements:

system requirements Windows95, Windows98, WindowsMe, Windows2000 Professional or WindowsXP operating system Fly!, Fly!2K, Fly! II, FS2004, FS2002, FS2000, FS98, X-Plane, Falcon 4.0 or Falcon 4.0 SuperPAK flight simulator software DirectX 6.1 or later High Color (16bit) or higher desktop color setting Soundcard or integrated audio Internet connection and Internet Explorer 4.01 SP2 or later (for optional METAR downloads) Microphone (optional, for use with Enviro!'s ATC Recording Area) InfoMETAR, ThinMetar and/or Sky! software (optional, can be used in Enviro!) HTML Help Viewer version 1.0 or later (for Enviro!'s Help system)

If you have Windows98, WindowsMe, Windows2000 or WindowsXP you need not worry about the HTML Help Viewer as it is already installed with your operating system. Windows95 users may need to download and install the HTML Help Viewer before they can access Enviro!'s Help system.

Does your computer meet the system requirements mentioned above? Go ahead and download Enviro! Just click the download link below to start downloading.

	Download Enviro! 3.2 now! (enviro!32setup.zip - 3,309KB)
Windows95 users should also download and install the HTML Help Viewer (hhupd.exe, 735KB). Windows98, WindowsMe, Windows2000 and WindowsXP users need not download the HTML Viewer as it is part of their operating system already.

When your download is complete, you can start installation. First, use Windows XP or a separate freeware utility like JustZIPit to extract the Enviro! Setup program (enviro!32setup.exe) from the downloaded zip archive (enviro!32setup.zip). Close all active applications on your computer, then run the Enviro! setup program. This setup will guide you through the installation process. Make sure to read the license, installation and readme documents that are presented. Also please allow your computer to restart once after the setup has completed, if mentioned by the setup program.

road tour

	In the year 2000, the Dutch Flightsim days were held at the National Aerospace Museum Aviodome-Schiphol, in The Netherlands The Aviodome was founded on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Fokker, KLM and Schiphol Airport in 1969/1970. In 1960 an aviation museum was situated at Schiphol-East. Since the opening of the new airport Schiphol-Centrum, the unique Aviodome building has been situated at its present location. The aluminium dome has a 60 metre span and it hosts more than 20 aircrafts.
A lot of flight simming enthusiasts were present, and we (Rob Visser and Rene van Dop) were demonstrating the newest versions of our Enviro! software to those interested, on saturday. A day before we had created about 200 paper Enviro! flyers, which were almost gone at the end of saturday. A lot of people took our flyers home, and we have only very few left :) Thanks everyone for your interest in our software!
The Dutch Flight Sim weekend was a great experience. It has been the very first time we have demonstrated our Enviro! software to flightsimmers during a large event. A lot of people were very intrigued by our software, which made our visit to the Aviodome a very worthwhile one. It was an experience not to be missed!

We also attended the yearly Dutch flight simulator weekend on April 28th 2001. It was, once again, a truly wonderful event. We have met a lot of flightsim fanatics, have been interviewed by reviewers and organizations, and demonstrated our freeware utility Enviro! to the flightsimming public.

from left to right: Aidan Williams, Francois Dumas, Rene van Dop, Rob Visser

One of the highlights of the day was meeting up with Francois Dumas and Aidan Williams of AVSIM Online fame :) We had an interesting chat about our freeware product Enviro!, and also discussed flightsimming in general. It was a great time, and we are thanking Francois and Aidan for stopping by! It was also a lot of fun to see some Enviro! fans returning to the Flightsim Weekend. We had a few of our true fans stopping at our demonstration area, just to let us know that they are still using our Enviro! program. Thank you guys, you really made our day there :)

thank you!

We would like to express our utmost gratitude to everyone checking out our Enviro! project. Creating the Enviro! program and sharing it with the flightsimulator community means a lot to us. We truly enjoy the writings we are receiving from people all over the world. It is simply amazing to see that there are so many amazing people out there who share the same flightsim passion as we do.
	We are really honoured that our Enviro! Website is now hosted by AVSim. We hope that this will allow more flightsimulator fanatics to gain access to our Enviro! program. Thank you AVSim!
Many thanks for visiting. We hope you'll enjoy flying with Enviro! - your friend in the sky! Greetings, from the Enviro! Team Rob Visser and Rene van Dop