Majestic Dash 8, anyone got it working?

[SoulFlight]

I recently tried to fly that plane with FSP, finding out its not really possible withour annoying your passengers or breaking the landing gear.

After looking up the map in FSX for example, the plane hangs because of the external flight model, and then accelerates to the speed it has been at
before -> G-Limit overload, terrified pax.

Same applies for the stutters the plane has on my system when landing. The gear sometimes gets damaged regardless of your shown touchdown speed.

I tried various settings in the config panel (like the frame sync option) but neither worked.....

[SamTDS]

What is your system hardware specs?

[SoulFlight]

Hm, what exactly do you need?

I am running on a
Phenom 2 X4 965 BE @ 4,0 Ghz
8 GB DDR2 RAM
nvidia GTX560 Ti 1 GB
Win7 64 bit
FSX Acceleration

my Affinity Mask is set on 14 and as far as I know the external flight model of the Dash 8 gets automatically assinged to the CPU core not used by FSX.

[SamTDS]

SoulFlight wrote:
Hm, what exactly do you need?

I am running on a
Phenom 2 X4 965 BE @ 4,0 Ghz
8 GB DDR2 RAM
nvidia GTX560 Ti 1 GB
Win7 64 bit
FSX Acceleration

my Affinity Mask is set on 14 and as far as I know the external flight model of the Dash 8 gets automatically assinged to the CPU core not used by FSX.

That's exactly what I wanted. We can defeinatly rule out it being a hardware problem. Try not to go into the map when using it and use a web air map such as
sky vector with the GPS to work out what to do and where you are

[SoulFlight]

Well this plane behaves rather strange anyways. in cruise, it sometimes maintains a 1 or 2 degree bank angle while flying straight in calm air (with
balanced fuel). When on A/P, in light turbulence it starts to bank and yaw from side to side, especially when turning, as if its in some massive
windshear or a stall, but keeps flying on course.....

I have to do more testing with that....

[SamTDS]

SoulFlight wrote:
Well this plane behaves rather strange anyways. in cruise, it sometimes maintains a 1 or 2 degree bank angle while flying straight in calm air (with
balanced fuel). When on A/P, in light turbulence it starts to bank and yaw from side to side, especially when turning, as if its in some massive
windshear or a stall, but keeps flying on course.....

I have to do more testing with that....

i haven't got the plane myself but that defeinatly seems like strange behavior

[Joeflyer]

Soul, you should definitely spend more time with the Q400. It's not a lite type of aircraft and commands more in depth knowledge of aerodynamics,
systems, etc. I do not have any issues with using this aircraft and FsP. Fine tune your flying with this aircraft such as trimming rudder and aileron
during climb, cruise and descent. It is imperative to trim this aircraft correctly.

Regarding the stutters on landing, this could be caused by any addon scenery you have as well or at some default airports. It's not necessarily due to
the aircraft itself. On my system (i7 2600k OC'd to 4.6 Ghz and 780 GTX 3G graphics card) the Q400 is quite easy on the frame rates and does not
cause any stutters. Even though your system is quite decent, there may be some bottleneck causing the stutters...a combination of hardware, scenery,
scenery settings, weather settings,etc.

[SoulFlight]

Joe,

most of my flying time I have on PMDG aircraft so I didnt really expect to run into any issues with an in-depth sim like the Q400. I got rid of the
stutters while fyling turns, this actually was caused by affinitymask settings.

But still: the plane doesnt fly straight and turns in light turbulence cause violent rocking. Besides from obviously not working very well with fsp
due to the accelleration problems. (And, perhaps difficulties with the payload model.)

[darrinward777]

This is not a surprise with this model. I own the Majestic Dash 8 and it is a different animal. They use their own failure systems and the only work around short of changing
the CFG, is to pause the simulation just before landing and make sure all the realism settings are turned off. FSP will automatically turn these features on when engaged.

You can change the cfg in regards to landing gear dynamics within the aircraft ,and replace it with a different freeware version of that section and make it more durable ,
but it is not easy. There is no way to disable it's internal failure systems however, as they are encrypted in a separate code which works independently from the FSX
failure system.
Last you could check with Majestic and see if they can help you with any control within the model that will allow you to make changes in this area. You can't even start
engines using Control + E with this model. Majestic designed it to work like the real deal.

In regards to the aircraft not easy to fly in a straight line, this would also be related to weight distribution within the payload or an engine imbalance. This aircraft models that as well. In fact, poor weight distribution could very well cause landing failures because it puts more weight on one side than the other where a engine imbalance makes it very hard to get the main landing gear down evenly. As for me, if I wish to use a dash-8 with FSP, I will use my freeware version downloaded from Simvation. FSP is created to work in normal aircraft designs that communicate in a common language within the software, not the exceptions to the rule.



Post Edited ( 10-30-15 06:25 )