Looking for a good simulation of a turboprop i.e. one that doesnt use the FSX engine. I am not fussed about aircraft missions ,4 passengers or 80 passengers, short take off or long; but I am interested in high fidelity turboprop operations including failures.

 

Thanks TIM

Majestic Q400

Flight 1 King Air

RealAir Turbine Duke

PMDG JS41

 

Cheers

 

Lee

Yep that's my take on it as well

Aerosoft Bronco and Twin Otter extended. IRIS PC-21 is turboprop but flies like a jet.

I would definitely agree that absolute king of the turboprop simulation at the moment is Majestic Dash-8. 

Aerosoft Bronco

I was going to suggest this. Good engine modeling and otherwise nice aircraft too.

Thanks for the info.

 

TIM

If it's the actual turbo-prop simulation, (and it's nuances) that you want to be very realistic (far beyond FSX's integral capabilities) then the Majestic Dash 8-Q400 is the way to go.

 

Some of the others are great add-ons but I'm not sure the actual turbo-prop simulation is that realistic in come cases.

I know it is a little different, but the Dodosim 206 is widely regarded as being very accurate.

Looking for a good simulation of a turboprop i.e. one that doesn't use the FSX engine. I am not fussed about aircraft missions ,4 passengers or 80 passengers, short take off or long; but I am interested in high fidelity turboprop operations including failures.

 

Thanks TIM

 

Tim

 

I believe that  the Majestic Q400 is the only FSX Turboprop aircraft that uses an external FDE  ( JSBsim )

 

However, I do not yet have it  .. waiting for the Pro Release,  so I cannot comment on how realistic it is, or it fidelity under failures   etc.

Tim

 

I believe that  the Majestic Q400 is the only FSX Turboprop aircraft that uses an external FDE  ( JSBsim )

 

However, I do not yet have it  .. waiting for the Pro Release,  so I cannot comment on how realistic it is, or it fidelity under failures   etc.

I'm not sure you are aware, but you can upgrade to Pro version when it comes available  by just paying the price difference then? So buy Pilot now and pay the price difference when Pro comes available (20€ or so, cant remember anymore) 

 

Basically there isn't any reason to wait for the pro version. I'm gonna upgrade to pro too, once it comes available but already enjoy the pilot edition fully

i would agree with a lot of the suggestions here, particularly the Q400

 

i would also suggest looking at some of the offerings from A2A

 

their stratocruiser has entirely customized engine behavior and is extremely complex and interesting due to it's somewhat antique nature. same with the b-17.

 

i haven't tried their p-51 yet but it also looks extremely accurate, the videos on their site are impressive

 

cheers

-andy crosby

Q400. I spent 14 hours at the controls of it yesterday with a real world Q400 pilot doing some tutorials and he was astonished at how good it was. The screwy VNAV, the way it bombs out of LOC/GS mode on approach and reverts to wing level/pitch hold mode, the way nav mode very occasionally decides to chase random waypoints at various times are all apparently very accurate to the real thing. The real Q400 isn't as clever as the Majestic version though as the FMC in the the real one can't take into account APU burn, which yesterday we discovered the Majestic one can. Also many Q400s don't come with two FMCs.

Majestic Dash-8-Q400 has it down to a razors edge, you want a realistic turboprop sim, get that, even in the "pilot" version which is the most basic its more realistic than 90% of all other FSX & FS9 aircraft out there. The Pro and Airliner versions will have even more complexity that would even astound the PMDG developers.

The MJC also ha something rare in many addons...character. It's hard to explain but it will keep bringing you back in so many ways.