Before I spend my hard earned money on the Q400, I want to make sure it works well enough, so my apologies for asking more questions. The Q400 is a bit unique in it's workings so it is more of a gamble then other addons.

 

I have been doing some research and a couple of things seem to keep cropping up. One is the Q400 bouncing up and down. The second is the Q400 temporally freezing in flight but the sound still running.

 

I really want to buy this product as I need a short regional aircraft to fly around the UK. I have a European flyer and a long distance flyer, both of which are top quality and the Majestic Q400 will fit in perfect.

 

If these problems have been solved then I will be buying straight away.

 

Thanks in advance for all the help. 

I have never had the bouncing issue although some have reported it.  I believe this is now fixed with the latest patch.

 

 

The temporary freezing is something that it appears cannot be avoided.  The Q400 essentially uses a different sim from NASA to generate its flight characteristics and the timer of that sim and FSX/P3D need to be in sync.  Over time they get out of sync a little bit so you can get a slight pause where the Q400 stops moving but everything else in FSX keeps going (its really odd) until the timers resync.  This pause is usually about 1 to 2 seconds and I normally see it only once during a flight and normally on the taxi out to the runway.....rarely in flight and I am not sure I have seen it on landing.  I guess I would say its a small price to pay for near perfection of a passenger turboprop sim.

I had the bouncing until I set an affinity mask in FSX.cfg

 

Never seen the pausing

never had either of  the issues   as of yet 

Speaking from P3Dv2.2.

 

When the aircraft is first loaded it can take 3 or 4 seconds to settle (it seems to be loaded slightly too high so it drops down and has a small "jiggle"). However I never have any other bouncing and I've certainly not noticed any pauses. YMMV.

 

This aircraft is epicly epic and full to the brim of epicness. I love it

Thanks to all for your answers. I think I have made my mind up to buy, to be honest I think I had already wanted to buy no matter what people said as the video's on YouTube look great.

 

MarkW - With regards to the timing, that make sense as the clock on board is always out of sync with my system clock on my PC, even when I sync them it wonders. I know that AivlaSoft EFB and a few other programs have an option to sync the clocks so I wonder if that would help.

 

SouthPawPaul - Again this makes sense. If the aircraft spawns higher then when it settles, FSX will look at the suspension figures. If it is too high then it will think it is crashing and bounce, which is why on some pages they mention changing some gear settings, suppose it is to make the suspension harder.

 

Thanks for everybody's input.

There are two timer options to use on the Q400 Control Panel but neither seems to do the job for me.

Mark, have you tried freeing up one of your cpu cores, for the q400? ie; AM =7.

regards, Craig. 

I think I am running about as efficiently as I can (given the hardware I have which I think is GPU limiting).  I have tuned my computer as per the NickN guide.  I do use an affinity setting, but honestly can't recall which one at the moment.

Mark   you can try this if you want  to maybe it will work maybe not  you can save your fsx.cfg  to a safe place delete you fsx.cfg  and let it rebuild  a new one  and just add the basic tweaks like I have   since  I havnt  followed any guide at all and only got  the 2  basic  tweaks in my fsx.cfg  and I havnt got  any issues  with anything thing at all.  

yes worth a try.  Thanks for the info.

Hi Mark,

  Do you get the freezing when you fly the Q400 without using live weather? I used to use FSGRW, and it gave me horrible stutters and freezes, every time it updated the weather. I was wondering if maybe weather engines that tie up simconnect, may be the cause here.

cheers, Craig.