I don't own the bird yet but if you're looking for RW Q400 routes in some good FS scenery, look at Alaska/Horizon. Lots of their routes I'm sure would fall within the Orbx boundaries.

if you're looking for RW Q400 routes in some good FS scenery, look at Alaska/Horizon. Lots of their routes I'm sure would fall within the Orbx boundaries.

 

As well as Air Canada - they have a number of RW Q400 routes in PNW too.

(FlyBe) EGAA-EGHI EGAA-EIKY

 

Short hops but enjoyable :smile:

So Far I have done all Brickyard flying in this bird, KDEN-KABQ-KDEN and KDEn-KJAC-KDEN. The JAC-DEN leg was great, snow (and icing!) on both ends, and flew the ILS 35L right down to minimums! 

We really need a good FSX airport addon for Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport CYTZ!!!

http://simaddons.com/pages/simaddons_preview_CYTZ.htm

So, now that the dust has begun to settle and people have gotten more hours in on this beautiful bird, let's share some of our favourite legs!

 

Mine thus far has got to be Wideroe flight WF906 from Tromso, Lagnes ENTC to Hammerfest ENHF. (Now I know wideroe operates it on Dash-8 100) Both airports available in the Airports of Norway package. B)  A bit more than 100 nm and the approach, atleast runway 23 in Hammerfest is a blast, flying quite low over the town and trees to land on this rather short rwy (880 meters/ 2,890 ft). 

 

Another quite nice, a bit longer flight is from Toronto City Center to Quebec Jean Lesage City Airport. Nice view of the Toronto city skyline. 

 

 

Now let's hear yours!!  :dance:

 

I decided to try your Leg. As I approached the runway, I got more and more worried that the Dash 8 might not fit in there. I even recorded the landing.

 

 

Nice suggestion! Beautiful route

Hmm... Me's going to have to brush up on my controlled crashes before attempting that one. My loop so far has been YBBN-YBUD (DCT)-YTNG (DCT)-YBBN (eagle-smoka5V).

 

Mike

I don't own the bird yet but if you're looking for RW Q400 routes in some good FS scenery, look at Alaska/Horizon. Lots of their routes I'm sure would fall within the Orbx boundaries.

 

Just beware Alaska sometimes uses company only RNAV airways which may not exist in your navdata. 

 

Australia is also nice, if you have Orbx sceneries installed.

 

Routes:

Brisbane (Anthony Lynch) - Hervey Bay (Orbx)

YBBN BN2 ITIDE T55 YHBA

 

Cairns (Orbx) - Hamilton Island (Anthony Lynch)

YBCS CS9 SWIFT Z17 HM YBHM

 

Cairns (Orbx) - Horn Island (Default, too bad the OZx Torres Islands package didn't include this airport)

YBCS CS9 DREWS R204 HID YHID

 

Cairns (Orbx) - Port Moresby

YBCS CS9 ZANEY R210 PY AYPY

 

In Europe, the most interesting routes IMO would be going to/from Austria, Switzerland and of course Norway. If you want to go somewhere exotic then Ethiopia would by my choice.

Favourite (real world) Q400 route so far (and well covered by good quality add-on scenery) :-

 

Wideroe;   ENZV (Stavanger, Norway) <> EGNT (Newcastle, UK)

 

Stavanger scenery:   Aerosoft Stavanger X

 

Newcastle Scenery:   UK2000 Newcastle

 

Flight Plan:   ENZV DCT ALOTI UM89 ROBEM UM82 DIGBI DCT EGNT

 

@ FL240

 

Block time:  80mins

 

:smile:

I decided to try your Leg. As I approached the runway, I got more and more worried that the Dash 8 might not fit in there. I even recorded the landing.

 

 

Nice suggestion! Beautiful route

love it! very nice footage. do you have rex water?

A bit low, short field should be a steep angle if my flying training memory serves my right, but hey you got her in nicely and I agree , it looked like you had no chance for a while!

 

what do you use to record your flights 

Great video Alec! :smile: I flew my approach to rwy 23, with some 15 kt winds gusting to 25 from 240 I think, that was a blast! I think that end of the rwy looks a bit more rural than I remember seeing on my sim, as I was getting below 1000 ft above ground I remember there was bit more houses and trees right up to the rwy 23 threshold. 

 

 

Did you install all relevant Norway scenery addons? It really makes the fjords, which I thought looked amazing default (well, UTX and GEX EU installed), stand out beautifully and enhances the approaches which are crazy even in real life  http://www.freewarescenery.com/fsx/norway.html (for hammerfest Airports of Norway, Norway Scenic X and for FS9 Norway quality mesh. All meshes for FS9 tend to work on FSX, and so does this)

 

 

Great to hear you enjoyed it as much as I did.  :wub:

 

 

 

I even recorded the landing.

 

Nicely done. I love landing videos with built-in "uh-oh, what was I thinking?"

Thanks guys!

 

I did download the Norway Airport Package. For Mesh I have FSGenesis NextMap. What I missed was better default ground textures, maybe FTX Global will make that look better. I didn't search long for scenery, since I wanted to fly the Dash8 more and tweak my FSX less, but maybe I will now search for good scenery around this area.

 

I thought I wouldn't have made it too. In Real Life it would have been very unconfortable for the passengers, as I used full reverse and full braking. Im not using any addon for Watex, it's all default. My FSX certainly needs some polish in the Scenery. I used FRAPS to record the video.

 

I'll try some of the other route suggestions from this topic, as doing the ones I'm used to in my country isn't too much fun, since there's no DASH-8 flying here.

I'm using http://flightaware.com/live/aircrafttype/DH8D?;offset=0;order=origin;sort=DESC to find RW world flights. So far I've done: KSEA-CYVR, KBOS-CYUL, LOWI-LOWW and LOWI-EDDF

 

Harry

Alaska/Horizon KSEA - KRNO

SUMMA7 LKV BAARB GASSI ANAHO2

FL190

 

Favorite so far, takes you over the cascades about the first 1/3. West of Mt. Ranier, St. Helens, and Mt. Adams. Then cross over to the East of Mt. Hood and the Oregon Cascade Range. Enjoyed it the whole way!!