MAJESTIC SOFTWARE DASH 8 Q400 PILOT AND VISUAL EXTENSION PACKAGE (P3D v4 & v5)
The Majestic Software Dash 8 Q-400 is a highly realistic rendition of Bombardier's twin-engined turboprop regional airliner. Since entering service in 2000, over 450 Q-400 aircraft have been delivered to a diverse range of airlines around the world. Powered by two Pratt & Whitney PW150A turboprop engines, the Q-400 can carry 78 passengers up to 1,500 miles at 360 knots, not much slower than its regional jet competitors.
This ground-breaking simulation features a flight dynamics engine that operates independently from P3D, providing you with incredibly realistic performance and behaviour, as well as accurate icing effects.
FEATURES
Custom flight dynamics engine
The Majestic Software Dash 8 is currently the only aircraft available
which includes a built-in Flight Dynamics Engine which is completely
independent from the default FSX FDE. This results in much more
realistic aerodynamics behaviour of the aircraft, in particular the
realistic wind simulation, enhanced propeller physics including
propeller ‘discing’ and auto rotation, the effects of the propeller
airstream on the wing lift and the icing effects on the propeller, wings
and the flight surfaces.
Weather Radar
The Weather Radar is capable of interpolating the weather returns based
on the actual FSX weather using the FSX Weather Stations reports. The
Weather Radar can work with both the FSX Real Weather and the Weather
Environment add-ons capable of setting the per-station weather. The beam
geometry is also simulated in order to depict the weather based on the
aircraft altitude, antenna tilt and the altitude of the weather itself.
There is ground clutter and weather shadow effects, and also a ground
mapping mode simulation, capable of showing the surrounding terrain. The
weather clutter in the ground mode is also simulated.
TCAS
The Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) simulates most of the
ICAO-defined CASII functions and provides the traffic indication as well
as the traffic and resolution advisories. The TCAS works with both the
AI traffic and virtual ATC network traffic (Vatsim/IVAO).
FMS navigation, fuel management and basic performance
The dual Flight Management System simulates the Universal 1E FMS and is
developed with a high degree of realism. The FMS system is capable of
navigation in three dimensions (LNAV+VNAV), RNP-based navigation and
Fuel and Performance Management. The up-to-date navigation database,
provided by navigation data supplier Navigraph
(subject to additional charges - see the website for details) can be
used to obtain the latest procedures. In addition, there are custom
provisions to control the availability of the ground services and the
flow of passenger announcements.
User Documentation
Documentation includes a systems tutorial, sample flight guide, Control
Panel application tutorial, checklists and performance tables.
Virtual cockpit and external models
Highly detailed external and cockpit models with HD textures and special effects are included:
- Hundreds of custom animations, all controlled by the aircraft systems
- Unique 3D propeller simulation featuring variable disc thickness
- Smooth gradual lighting in virtual cockpit
- Complete custom lighting system with proper light splashes on the exterior model and ground. All lights are functional in the cockpit
- ‘Intelligent’ pilots with behaviour linked to the aircraft state (exterior model)
- Complete multi-stage icing visualisation
- Window mist/demist simulation
- Frame-rate friendly model
- NB: Virtual cockpit only; no 2D panel is included
Liveries and paintkit
Detailed layered paintkit in Photoshop format with a unique stitching tool.
19 high resolution liveries from around the world:
- Air Baltic
- Air Berlin
- Air Canada Express
- Alaska Airlines (Horizon Air)
- ANA (blue)
- ANA (green)
- Austrian
- Croatia
- FlyBe
- EuroLOT
- Lufthansa Regional (Augsburg Airlines)
- Luxair
- Qantas Link
- Porter
- SAS Commuter
- SATA
- Skywork
- United Express (Colgan Air)
- Wideroe
Passenger announcements
Saving and loading system states
When saving or loading a flight in FSX the systems will also store or retrieve their respective states.
Custom sound system
The Majestic Software Dash 8 includes its own sound system, independent
of the FSX sound system. The sound system is Direct-X based and uses
custom DSP (Digital Signal Processing) effects to simulate the propeller
sounds correctly. The system is also 3D-enabled for both external and
internal sounds, including the switches and controls sounds as well as
voice announcements.
Add-on control panel
The Add-on Control Panel Application (CPAN) allows you to visually
modify the most important parameters of the aircraft, as well as verify
and apply the custom Weight and Balance configurations.
FMS FPL WINDS (available from v1.1)
The FMS FPL winds functionality is currently in development, and will
be provided in the version 1.1 update. It will allow the FMS to account
for the en-route winds, thus increasing the fuel and time prediction
accuracy.
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