Thanks again for all the help everyone! I think I will be choosing the turbine Duke V2. By the way, the turbine instead of piston aircraft is the better option, correct?

Thanks!

I have to vote for the Real Air Duke Turbine V2. It's a great plane as it comes and you can always add the F1 GTN 750 later. The Majestic Q400 Dash 8 is a great plane, but is more like an airliner and requires a learning curve to master the systems and procedures.

 

The Carenado C90 Kingair is nowhere near as accurate a turboprop model, but I do enjoy flying it. Great frame rates and Carenado does an outstanding job on the textures.

 

A couple more are the Flysimware Cessna 441 and their MU2. Their visuals don't match Carenado, but they have a good model of the Garret turboprop and both planes fly well.

Thanks again for all the help everyone! I think I will be choosing the turbine Duke V2. By the way, the turbine instead of piston aircraft is the better option, correct?

Thanks!

You have already stated that your average flight will be around 500nm, so high altitude flying for best economy and to fly over some weather would be practical.  With that in mind, you would need to be flying well above 12,000 ft AGL and that is where the turbine engines will show their advantages over the piston engines.  Either will economically cruise above 20,000 ft AGL, but the turboprop will cruise around 50 KTAS faster with a fuel burn of only 10 GPH more than the piston prop.  Even so, JetA costs less than 100LL AvGas, so we are talking about an 18% increase in fuel consumption, but right now, AvGas costs almost 18% more than JetA, so there is little to no difference in fuel costs.

 

The turboprop also has some advantanges down low.  The turboprop has more thrust, allowing a slight increase in useful load and a big decrease in the amount of runway required for takeoff.  The turboprop also has reversible props, so landing distance is significantly less.  Piston powered Dukes will eat up a solid 3000 feet of runway, while turbine Dukes will eat as little as 1000 feet.  The turbine Dukes also have an impressive rate of climb, up to 4,000 ft/min., piston Dukes max out at 1,600 ft/min.

... and the tduke can be equipped with garmin gtn avionics, whereas the piston duke lacks that option, at present.

Again, thanks for all the helpful input guys! I have decided to purchase the Turbine Duke V2 and the GTN 750 avionics package. The avionics package will also be great as I can use it with other aircraft such as the amazing A2A Cherokee.Have a great weekend all!

 

 

Turbine Duke with dual GTN750's

 

Would like that, but on my system the 2nd GTN 750 caused noticeable stuttering in hi res areas. I had to revert to just one GTN 750, no more stuttering, and still love the TDv2.

 

 

Again, thanks for all the helpful input guys! I have decided to purchase the Turbine Duke V2 and the GTN 750 avionics package. The avionics package will also be great as I can use it with other aircraft such as the amazing A2A Cherokee.Have a great weekend all!

 

If you use the Turbine Duke V2 config program to install the GTN gauge(s) into the panel (via the config program's "GPS and Radios" section) wait until after doing so to make any personal tweaks you want to make to your pop up gauges. The TDv2 config program rewrites some of the [windowXX] entries in your panel.cfg file.  Ex. I map my pop up GPS gauges to [window05] in all of my aircraft as I have a yoke button mapped to toggle [window05]. I believe the TDv2 config program maps the GTN to [window01] when you run it. So configure with the config program first, then make you own personal tweaks after that.

Would like that, but on my system the 2nd GTN 750 caused noticeable stuttering in hi res areas. I had to revert to just one GTN 750, no more stuttering, and still love the TDv2.

I understand that - I made some sacrifices to run dual GTN's. I don't use AI (I fly online). Recently I also set texture res to 1m - works well in P3D .

I like also the F1 PC12 with GTN750

Serge

Does anyone know if having dual 750 GTN's in the TDuke or any plane is a common option in the RW? Not sure why you would need 2 GTN 750, just curious?

 

Thanks - Martin

Two GTN 750's, one for nav and one for weather using Rolands weather gauge.

 

Again, thanks for all the helpful input guys! I have decided to purchase the Turbine Duke V2 and the GTN 750 avionics package. The avionics package will also be great as I can use it with other aircraft such as the amazing A2A Cherokee.Have a great weekend all!

 

Excellent choice. You won't be disappointed.

The piston duke is also excellent - truth be told i prefer it to the turbine version. I'm looking forward to seeing it in p3d some day.

I have the Dash 8. Although I primarily fly the 737ngx or pmdg 777, the dash 8 is quite good and rather an involved plane to fly. I would recommend it.

Edited September 6, 201510 yr by n4gix
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