Fireworks

Like in real-life some situations in Flight Simulator are celebrated with fireworks. The fireworks are animated and with sound effects. The following is a complete list of fireworks in FSX.

New Year

New Year is celebrated with fireworks at the following major world cities on January 1 from 00:00 and 20 minutes ahead: Atlanta, Dallas, Hong Kong, Las Vegas, London, New York, Paris, Sydney, Tokyo, and Washington D.C.

Independence Day

The 4th of July is the US national holiday, Independence Day, and is celerbrated with fireworks at the following US locations from 22:00 and 20 minutes ahead: Atlanta, Dallas, Mount Rushmore National Memorial, New York, Seattle (3 places), and Washington D.C.

Bastille Day

The 14th of July is the French national holiday, Bastille Day, and is celebrated with fireworks in the capital, Paris, from 22:00 and 20 minutes ahead.

Las Vegas

There is fireworks at Las Vegas, USA, every day from 22:00 and 20 minutes ahead.

Hong Kong

There is fireworks at Hong Kong, China, every January 24 from 00:00 and 20 minutes ahead. Perhaps this is due to the Chinese New Year on January 24, 2001.

Comments:

For you aussies out there, theres a download on avsim.net for Fireworks on Australia Day! yew, go get it.. provides some nice shots in the Qantas 737

A really cool looking thing to do is to open any aircraft .cfg and change the effect of the smoke system on the aircraft to any of the FS effects like fireworks! :)

go to syney at new year in a maule orion !!!! please visit www.wishgames.tk

Seattle gets fireworks on the Fourth from Elliott Bay, the Space Needle and Lake Union after 10 PM/2200 Hours. Thanks for the site & tips!

Look at : Flight Simulator 9/Effects/texture/fx_fw1.bmp...
A strange firework !

Set time to 9/11/2001...and fly over Manhatten. The 2 blue lights will be where the WTC was. It's pretty cool for screenshots. I got an amazing one of a United Boening 747 flying between them.

make sure that you have the special effects bar set all the way to the right.

The one on January 24 in Hong Kong will be for Chinese New Year

woot chinese new year (24th) is my birthday :)

i remember when i did that on new years eve and a firework broke my 747 windshield!!

i am tempted to give up i cant find one

lol. my uncle (fly's 747's) he just to of from an airport out in China and nearly got hit by a firework! lol. (true story)