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Are you doing the updated tutorial flight, or the first tutorial flight that came with the Q400 when it was released? If you are doing the old one, I would just recommend to skip that one and go to the updated one, which you can download from here: http://majesticsoftware.com/mjc8q400/downloads.html The old one from what I hear was written a while ago, when the FRANX6 was current, and I guess the nav-data has gotten updated since then. The Q400 came with the most recent AIRAC from when it was released, which was in (April, I think?) but the tutorial was not reflective of that. The updated tutorial is much more in depth, providing the flows, from cold to dark, to shutdown, flying a leg from Toronto, ON, to Newark, NJ. The SID, STAR, and approach plates are also included in the PDF. I often reference it when flying, so make sure to send it to dropbox or some other PDF reader if you have a secondary laptop, iPad, or other tablet to use alongside the plane! Fun travels! EDIT: You have to click Tutorials on the bar immediately below the main link bar which contains "Home, News, Products," etcetera, there should be a secondary link bar which has links to Docs, Repaints, Tutorials, Custom Scripts. Hope this helps.

I love the QualityWings Avro RJ collection, they're going to add the 146 soon (if they haven't already, I haven't checked, I've been too busy with the Q400! :-P) and it's one heck of a plane. It's extremely fun to fly, the systems are just right if you're not that into having to take 30 minutes to start up, but not shallow enough so that it feels like there's no work involved. The FMC is actually really intuitive, and it flies pretty dang fast for the size of engines it has, but it DOES have four engines... The only thing, like a poster said before is that it's rarely, if ever used here in the states, although I understand it's much more common to see abroad, in some of the more obscure aviation communities, like Greece, Venezuela (I think?) and in some of the more popular ones like Great Britain and other European countries. If you've been wanting to force yourself to get into European flying and you haven't found the right opportunity, this plane is a great one to start with! As for the ERJ's, I enjoy them immensely, they are actually a challenge to fly, and to me, they are quite realistic. They have a pretty steril cockpit, which is pretty much like the real thing, and are often used in regional flights in the states by ExpressJet, Republic, and other regional airlines. As for the poster that cannot find the documentation, when you purchased the ERJ from the Mcphat site, it came with a PDF that includes a tutorial flight, flows, and all of that good stuff, I'm not sure if you must have missed it or something, but the documentation is there. I can send you the PDF if you'd like (if that's allowed..). Other than that, there's not much competition, other than maybe using the Airbus Extended from Aerosoft to substitute for some airbus regional routes.

I use the FlyBy E6b app on the iPad and it seems to do a pretty good job getting me to meet altitude restrictions whenever I need to descend, as well as takes input as to how much altitude I need to lose, average groundspeed that I estimate, as well as vertical speed suggested. I can't seem to get the hang of the FMC VNAV, but that might just be due to lack of use, I'm a little bit more comfortable doing it the manual way. And plus, it's a little bit more hands on and fun in my opinion!

Here's a picture over the hill country getting into SAT, looking out of the cockpit windows.

GREAT! Downloading it right now, thanks a bunch!

I had purchased Megascenery 2.0, Texas - The entire state, just before the Q400 released, and as much fun as I was having flying around with the Feelthere ERJ's and NGX around the state, I cannot simply fly anything other than the Q400 outside of any OrbX areas and the state of Texas. It simply looks amazing, and the feel of the Dash-8 is simply amazing. I have about 37 student pilot hours, working toward my PPL (on hold for the moment as I'm going into my last year of University, and Computer Science is taking up all of my time at the moment, and money..) and the first time that I hopped into the Dash-8, it was simply superb. It has the authentic feel of what I experienced in a C-172, except on a bigger scale. This thing is an amazing experience to fly, from everything to having to set manual rudder/aileron inputs on takeoff, to the little things such as the increased ground friction roll when your plane is wanting to slide sideways during takeoff due to the crosswinds (which you DEFINITELY hear, even on the little planes, if not moreso). I have never had so much fun flying in FSX and never have I truly had an experience that was so close to the real thing during my last 5 years of simming. I just wanted to share my experiences with this plane, and also, I do recommend any MegaScenery Earth 2.0 product that you may be thinking of getting. It is kind of a weird feeling when you first fly, and take off about 1,000 feet, but get above 3, or 4,000 and you'll truly see how awesome it is. I love flying around my home airport (KMFE) and seeing the familiar sights that I did when I was taking my first lessons, and quickly became reminiscent about my first solo and first solo cross countries. Disclaimer: Texas is a huuuuge set of files, about ~20 gigabytes of information, but it easily holds about 4-5 other complete states of information and photofiles, so even though it may seem torturous to think about downloading and installing, it is DEFINITELY worth it at the end. I cannot simply fly anywhere else that has only the default textures of UTX, GEX. I will be uploading some pictures soon as soon I as I get into SAT, AUS, IAH, and the likes of those. The coast also looks amazing!

Wow, that looks amazing, and the livery that I use the most, good job! Let us know of its progress and I will get it right after it is released!

I too, would like to have a livery of the new colors. This would go great for the connection routes

Sounds like you're trying to use too high of flaps, and having to use a lot of power to drag it in, and with the torque effect accurately depicted, it's yawing to the left from the propellers. As they suggested above, use less flap, higher speed (but not high enough that you're left in ground effect and float halfway through the runway before you touch down) and land the plane. It really is a difficult plane to land, it either has to get put down, or you get caught with a shortage of speed and power, and hit the ground pretty hard.

This beauty is one heck of a slippery airplane, it's amazing to see how you really do have to stay on top of it if you're trying to fly the approach manually, rudder trim is needed, and you sure as heck need to control your airspeed, the first approach I tried left me 1,000' over the marker, obviously forcing me to go around. The next two weren't nearly as bad, but speed control is the name of the game, it seems!

It's a huge amount of files and space on the hard drive, but it's well worth it. Being in way south east texas (I can literally fly into mexico in about a minute after taking off) I do a bunch of Southwest flights all throughout Texas and with MSE, it looks ridiculously great in the flight levels, it gets blurry once you get to ~4000 AGL, but it comes with the territory I guess. Well worth the purchase, in my opinion.

After trying forever to build a simple app today, I would like to give you thanks for sharing, I know it must have taken many hours of frustration to release it!

Is this megascenery or what scenery is it? It looks great!

I'm not sure which night issues there are with the ERJs from feelthere, I fly mine pretty often and I've yet to see anything wrong with it. It's really fun to fly, handles kind of heavy, similar to what I would think they actually feel like. As far as the systems go, it's not the most high tech systems but it's not the lightest either. I enjoy it as my main regional jet! As far as the default crj cockpits, I'm not too sure..

Overcast as far as the eye can see! This was actually a nervous approaching going into NZTU (as ATC routed me into a grass runway.. had to enter the downwind for 21 instead) One more over England today, looks great!