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Will,The July 2004 edition of Computer Pilot Magazine had a excellant article on the flying of multi-engine advanced turboprops. The flight model that the author used as his example/article was the PMDG Beech 1900D.I have had the aircraft for +6 months and although it is not the most detailed aircraft that I have, it is one of my favorites. Easy to take-off, fly and land. Just do a liitle research on the operation of the condition levers to better enjoy your experience.Tom

Just a little minor note, but I also use this aircraft quite a lot and I was pleasently surprised to find that a config had already been done and was available putting the Reality XP JetLine2 and GNS530 products into the B1900D.OK, so it is extra expenditure, but I already had both Reality XP add-ons and putting them into the Beech gives me a lot of the functionality back that wasn't there in the "Express" pack. I now tend to use the GNS as a sort of "mini FMC", while the JL2 gives me ACARS and sharper displays than the defaults (amongst other stuff)...Cheers,Ian P.

Just wanted to add my support for the PMDB 1900D. No, its not the most scintillating panel, either 2d or virtual, but the handling is a delight. The way it floats on the ground effect if you`re even a wee bit too fast is spot on. Also, the VC may be basic, but the eyepoint is nice - with a .6 zoom the runway is almost obscured under the dash when flaring which is how I like it.Cheers PMDG.Rottenlungs.

Just a pity it's so UGLY. The Fiat Multipla of aviation;)

Sure it's not a Renault Megane's back end? :-hahWhy *on earth* did they stick so many bits of wing, fin and random other aerodynamic surfaces on it?!?Ian P.

To cram as much passenger in as possible ;) However I am weird I think it looks good lol.

Uglyness is in the eye of the beholder...to me, she is a real beauty!

Hi When they stretched the earlier Beech aircraft to make the 1900D, they encountered stability problems due to the increased moment arm in the larger fuselage. The myriad fins on the tail were to improve (primarily) the yaw behaviour. Similar thing can be seen on the back of the later Learjets, though I think these are to control the dutch-roll, one of the side-effects of high altitude, swept-wing flight.#### right the Beech is ugly though - the fuselage shape is only rivalled by the Shorts sd-360 for uglyness!CheersLungs

Oh I don't know, the Shorts makes it look like a beautiful rose!

Ooooops yes forgot the Shorts Skyvan and SD360;)If it looks right it flies right - sorry but the Beech 1900 looks horrible IMHO (and has an impressively poor safety record).Presumably it doesnt have alloy wheels with low profile tyres. Maybe it's an option:PFurry dice?Green sun strip over the cockpit windscreen with "Captain" and "First Officer" in white letters?RegardsAdam

Impressively poor safety record is perhaps a little harsh. The niche the 1900 is there to fill is one of lots of short sectors, in and out of the more basic airfields, generally flown by less experienced crews and maintained by smaller (poorer) operators.Of the 29 incidents on the NTSB database in the last 5 years, only 3 had fatal outcomes, and at least one of those was due to control rigging error. Cheers Lungs

3 fatals in 5 years on a relatively new aircraft in a Catagory 1 country is poor.However the model appears to be v popular among AVSIM contributors (and if anyone is going to make a good version of it PMDG will) so I'll shut up:DAdam Moorewww.simreview.co.ukWin XP - ARIA 3200PCPrescott 3.20 GHz - 2GB RAMAsus ATi Radeon X800 Pro TD 256MB19" CRT 1600x1200 @ 100hzAudiophile 24/96 AudioComing Soon: THE MEGA-TEST!Dreamfleet/Flight1 Archer -VS- Caranado Archer II -VS- Aussim Warrior

>3 fatals in 5 years on a relatively new aircraft in a>Catagory 1 country is poor.>Not when you consider that 2 of the three were maintenance / CofG (dispatcher balls up) based and the the other was a mid-air. In all cases the aircraft design was exonerated.Sorry to go on, just your original statement was a little 'sweeping'. You`re right, the PMDG plane is a good `un, the beauty of FS is that I haven`t found out how to misrig the elevator trim in the wrong sense yet! CheersLungs

GentlemenInteresting thread here on a nice model. I'm a retired military/commercial acft driver but have come to really love flying the PMDG 1900D. I'm a bit picky regarding panels since I spent thousands of hrs sitting in them as I bored holes in the sky. I appreciate a detailed acft visual model as much as the next guy but it's importance is far less than the feel I get for the panel. Let's face it...I don't know of many real pilots who hang there heads out the side windows to "admire their acft" during cruise flight. Maybe some helo jockey's!I recently bought the pgrm FS Panel Studio to "modify" my favorite panels and give them more of a touch of real world. I took the 1900D panel and mod'ed it on the Capt's side and then made an FO panel too, which I actually prefer flying frm. Slapped on some stickers and placards to give it that rode-hard-put-away-wet look and then used more basic instrumentation on the FO side. Most of acft I have every flown have the "nice gauges" on the Capt's side and the El Cheapo's on the FO's side...good way for the owners to safe a buck or 2.It's really nice to see guys like PMDG provide our hobby with such an outstanding package for the price that they did given what most developers seem to feel is reasonable pricing now. Bravo Z to PMDGJoeT