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I have just installed my Majestic q400 (Newly purchased). I installed it with my directX up to date, and with administrator rights. Onece installation was complete, I opened FSX and selected the ACE (Air Canada Express) livery and noticed that something was very wrong. The texture was "see-through". None of the physical hard Fuselage was showing and I could physically see through one side to the other. I could see the seats, and all the inside cabin features, and windows, but i non of the fuselage colour was there and non of the air canada express writing either. as well, none of the wings, or tail section was showing. But, the props were. I looked at other variations of the Q4 and they were the same. I tried a fresh install, of the plane, but to no help. I don't like this because the is pretty much 60$ ftp something that isn't what majestic said it was. My system has more that enough capability to run it. Has anyone else had this problem?!?! PLEASE HELP!!! Thanks Guys, Cole

Gentlement, I have been told (by alexnadein from avsim.su) that the Majestic Q400 is fully compatible with Prepar3D v2. You just need to uncheck "Mipmap VC panels" in "view and panel settings" Folks here tried this and it works. Thanks !

Frontier Airlines Virtual is beginning operations Monday May 9, 2016. Frontier is the exclusive partner of National Virtual Airlines and is owned and operated by the same staff at National Virtual Airlines. We operate a modern fleet of Airbus A318/319/320, ERJ-170 & Dash-8-Q400. We are based out of Denver, CO (KDEN). We will be giving away $25.00 every month for the pilot of the month who flies the most legs for every 30 day period. We have one staff spot available as the Denver Hub Manager. We will be seeking an adult (Over 18) who has verifiable staff experience and a current vatsim account in good standing. If you have any questions please feel free to email me at ceo@nationalcargova.com God Bless! Frontier Airlines Virtual http://flyfrontierva.org

Hello, I recently have problems with my Q400 in FSX-SE and I do not remember what I might have changed. Problem: When I load the Q400 (after loading the C172) the systems start to initialize but there remain 3 failures: PFD: ATT-fail, HDG-fail, IVSI-fail, "Aligning" forever MFD: Oil temperature out of range (something like minus 2 billion degrees) FMS: AHRS input fail Btw, the CoPilot's Display is fine. But, when I load an older saved flight, the Q400 works as expected. Things I have tried: Multiple Reinstallation of 1.016, 1.017RC2 and 1.018beta In Control Panel, change to Multimedia Timer and disable FDE2FSX-sync My next step would be to reinstall FSX, but it's a lot of work. Any advice would be appreciated.

Hi All, Let me start by saying how much I love the Majestic Dash 8. The combination of fidelity, performance and the challenging short-haul sectors flown by the real thing makes it the best airliner sim for FSX in my book. My thanks go to all those involved in its development. There's one area of the flight dynamics which does trouble me though, as I posted in the thread: 'Help with Q400'. However, I think this subject is a bit off-topic for that thread, hence the new one. I've now had the opportunity to do some more testing: this time with a fully-loaded Q400. I've posted a series of screenshots below showing what I experienced. I'd like to emphasize now that I'm in no way a real-world pilot (let alone a Q400 driver) so I'd appreciate the input of other Q400 users on this issue. Here's the weight and balance sheet for the test flight. Close to max take-off mass with a 29000kg aircraft (including 4000kg of fuel). Here's confirmation of the aircraft weight and fuel quantity in the sim prior to engine start. Following take-off from EGTE I set the condition levers to 900rpm (MCL) and climbed at 200 kts using the IAS AFCS mode. Needless-to-say vertical speed and deck angles were pretty extreme during the first part of the climb. Lucky this was a test flight! Here we are just over 15 mins after take-off passing FL250. By this point V/S has decayed to +600fpm so you could be forgiven for thinking she hasn't got much climb left in her. However, after this shot was taken, I reduced the commanded IAS to 180kts which allowed the rate of climb to increase to +800fpm. 12 minutes later we're climbing through FL300: still at 180kts and +800fpm. A further 10 minutes into the flight sees us still climbing at +800fpm at 180kts: now we're passing through FL460! However, a few minutes later V/S does start to drop rather suddenly. An hour into the flight, we're passing through FL522, and V/S has dropped to 'only' +300fpm but we're still climbing steadily. I've also reduced the IAS to 158kts (Vclmb for out T/O weight) where it'll stay for the rest of the climb. You may notice the engine rpm starting to creep away from the FADEC commanded setting of 900rpm at this point. After another hour in the air*, we've finally reached what seem to be the absolute ceiling for the aircraft at this weight: FL636! (We've also burned about half of the fuel on board by now.) I could have traded a bit of airspeed for more altitude as I did in the previous test when I flew right up to stick-shaker activation. RPM is clearly over-speeding at this point. Wonder what would happen in the forthcoming pro version which I think has failures? (*I'll own up to using time compression for this bit, although I hadn't previously in the flight.) Here's the final portion of the flight see through the FSX 'flight analysis tool'. In posting this, I just wanted to provoke a bit of discussion about what's causing this odd ability to reach excessive altitudes in a flight model which otherwise seems so accurate. Any input from the developers would be very welcome, although I realise the Majestic forum is probably the best place to get this... (I know - I should register there!) All the best, Nick

https://www.dropbox.com/s/hb34dwzt41fdvqk/Majestic%20Flow%20V1EXT.pdf Hi all! Still updating the document. I'll polish it a little bit more, tomorrow afternoon. Missing abnormal procedures at the moment. https://www.dropbox.com/s/hb34dwzt41fdvqk/Majestic%20Flow%20V1EXT.pdf Cheers, Julio Cesar

So, now that the dust has begun to settle and people have gotten more hours in on this beautiful bird, let's share some of our favourite legs! Mine thus far has got to be Wideroe flight WF906 from Tromso, Lagnes ENTC to Hammerfest ENHF. (Now I know wideroe operates it on Dash-8 100) Both airports available in the Airports of Norway package. B) A bit more than 100 nm and the approach, atleast runway 23 in Hammerfest is a blast, flying quite low over the town and trees to land on this rather short rwy (880 meters/ 2,890 ft). Another quite nice, a bit longer flight is from Toronto City Center to Quebec Jean Lesage City Airport. Nice view of the Toronto city skyline. Now let's hear yours!! :dance:

For those who are eagerly awaiting this as much as I am... Just a quick repost of last week's post over at the Majestic Software forums. Plenty of sexy preview videos in all phases of flight. View the other 6 at http://198.164.146.97/fanda/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=2546&sid=70daf48b6f4af7837d727002cd0c92e2&start=150 - Scroll down a bit to see Boss' post!

I need help adding Flytampa's Kai Tak (VHHX) to Aerosoft's Airbus A318,319,320,321 FMC's. I am on Prepar3D v3.2 and using latest Navigraph Airac Cycle 1604. I have search information over internet, Flytampa and Aerosoft forums with no avail . Is it also possible do add VHHX to the Q400, Pro version, FMC. Thought I have read something that their nav data is hard coded and impossible to edit? Cheers, AK PS: I was able to add it to Pro ATC X though, and last I recall, the way I do it, was working over P3D v2.something. Still untested over v3.x

Hi! I've just started a q400 project. Is it anyone else doing this who would like to share some experiences? I will soon be up an running with a webpage for the project.

I am looking at the Q400 and was wondering what throttle quadrant controls are needed? Can I fly it with just throttle and power, or do I need a mixture control also? Should I have six controllers or will three suffice? How difficult is it to fly/manage from the first officer's position? I have the controllers, my issue is set up in that they will not bolt to my desk on the right-hand side. I would have to fly as first officer or try to rig up a desk-top mount for the controllers. (Saiteks) Thanks in advance. -david-

Hi All, Took up a couple of beauties into the P3D skies around dusk for some fun flying. I know there are many folks right now on the fence deciding if making the switch to P3D from FSX/FS9 is worth while and I can honestly say, once you've got your sliders set to give the best performance/visuals, sticking with P3D will be an easy decision. The days of cracking open the .cfg file to wring that last ounce of performance are behind me and I've been having more fun playing "pin the tail on the sectional" and finding some places to fly out of/into. Enjoy the screenshots and whatever your sim platform of choice is, post up your shots and share your story!! Mike Aerosoft Airbus A319 in Spirit "Bare Fare" colors (not that you can see it so trust me "Blasting" out of KOTH (Northbend, OR) ...well, as much as a Q400 can blast out. Stock P3D water shot. Not the best but you get a good idea what P3D can offer "out of the box". Climb thrust set; making our way to KEUG (Eugene, OR) Yep, this right here is what you call a left turn. Executed "like a boss" (props to SNL) OK, I'm not ashamed to say it....I missed all the final approach fixes for runway 34R at KEUG so here I am making my way back to the initial fix to get lined up for landing. Gear coming down and shortly, a successful end to a great day of fun flying. My "lead FA" called me for dinner. Happy wife...happy life!! :Whistle:

Digital Theme Park will be hosting a great event tomorrow (May 14th). They will have a real Q400 Captain talking about his background, experiences and stories in this magnific airplane. There'll also be a Q&A session following the main event, where he will answer all our questions about the airplane and will teach us how to set it up correctly. Are also expected to attend this event a First Officer and a Flight Attendant of the Q400, as well as a FAA representative who has worked closely with this aircraft. This sounds like a great opportunity to learn the Dash-8 from the people who really know how it works: it's crew. The event will happen only tomorrow, May 14th, at 2pm Pacific Time, 5pm Eastern Time, 2100 UTC, on Digital Theme Park (connect your Team Speak 3 to ts3.digitalthemepark.com). More details here.

Hello All, I'm a little confused as to the best flaps setting for landing this bird. The sample flight tutorial says to land with flaps 15, and this in my opinion is the most stable flaps setting for landing. When I try landing with flaps 35 she becomes very difficult to control, particularly with the speed. In real operations, do pilots land with flaps 15 or 35? Thanks very much, James

Hello on the forum With the release of the Majestic Q400 there have been some people asking questions. I found some of them to be rather frequent, and decided to explain it a bit in this thread. However I hope that we can continue to ask questions about using the newly Majestic Q400, at least until their own site comes up. The release thread is a long read.. I have been on it for quite some time, and I think I have read most of it.. I even contributed with questions myself =) Sorry bout the pictures, but couldn't work out the tags today First one I think we get a lot is how to set it up. Open up FSX and the MJC control panel, make sure your favourite joystick/throttle/yoke is plugged in =) In the MJC84 control panel program go to the flight control tab.. Looks like this https://www.dropbox.com/s/3vj9043a401dsq1/Control%201.PNG - > This link bugs up on every edit if it doesnt work its probably missing %20 before the 1 If you select your settings like this, your aileron axis will function as the tiller when the speed is below 40 knots.. There after use your rudder axis.. Make sure steering is On in the cockpit (It is by default) For the throttles select the engine control tab. The throttle works in detents, the trick is to specify which input on your throttle gives you which detent https://www.dropbox.com/s/mmvcz18u3yz58z2/Engine%20c.PNG -> This link bugs up on every edit if it doesn't work its probably missing %20 before the c in the URL Here you can see what 'MAX' 'DETENT' 'IDLE' 'DISC' (max)'REVERSE' is https://www.dropbox.com/s/omb744escclit74/Powerplant.PNG So as the picture says, move your throttle lever and moniter what values becomes visible in the input field. Type this number at the function you want it to have effect in.. I would recommend that you add some null-zones. Next one I have seen is how to enable the TCAS Simply press and hold the LSK 8 (right side lowest) for 2 seconds and it will start transmitting. If you want to change how TCAS settings press the Function control key 'exp' button. after selecting LSK 8 https://www.dropbox.com/s/h1g3lycih03z1l8/Arcdu.PNG Basic startup tutorial Go trough theese steps https://www.dropbox.com/s/ibcuch75ld57eec/Overhd.PNG And after that you select the condition levers from the picture before to start&feather. Confirm with a mouseover! When you head the click, (switch 5 moving back in posistion) start the procedure for next engine. I hope that we can grow this FAQ.. so submit questions or answers, and I will add them (with credit) to this post.. Happy flying to add: There is NO function to select c&d but you can set everything to cold and dark in the Q400, and then save the flight and make it default if you want cold & dark Contribution from FSXman I have a joystick to my left that is dedicated for steering tiller. I set it to "spoilers" in FSUIPC, then go into the Majestic control panel, click on the "spoilers" for steering tiller, and set it up per the instructions. My tiller works perfectly. If your airport doesn't have a SID, then the selection of a SID won't be in the "Menu>Departure" page, when you select it while you are on the Flightplan page. It seems that if you want to takeoff without using the available SIDs, then just put your airport at the top line of your flightplan and don't go into the Menu>Departure page. I found the best option for me, since I use a dedicated joystick for the steering tiller, is to connect it to the "spoilers" in FSUIPC, then go into the Majestic control panel and set the steering tiller up as "spoilers" per the instructions in the manual.

Hello All --- well, after reading much and viewing much, purchased the Q400 today and loaded it up under FSX. Really am pleased with the quality and detail. First issue I noticed is that loading the Q400 model causes the FSX SPOT view mode (floating spot) to glitch and go into LOCK SPOT mode. I tried many things to try and clear the locked condition but only rebooting FSX will fix it. All other aircraft working fine in regular SPOT view. During this observation, no other add-ons were running (no weather, scenery, etc). So please add this one to the "fix it" list !!! Also, are users reporting bugs to Majestic directly via email, etc. ??? Many Thanks -- Would appreciate a note from others if you are seeing this problem on your FSX systems too ---- :-)

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Hello everyone! I'm interested in buying the Majestic q400 but its price is a bit steep for my budget. So I would like to hear from your experience will there be any discounts on the product and when they usually hit? Thanks in advance and wish you all safe and enjoyable flight! Cheers Marko

Some various shots of my flights so far with the amazing Dash :lol: Departing Vienna, inbound to Innsbruck Riga - Helsinki, just above Gulf of Riga Hammerfest - Tromso Lagnes Hope you like Something about this bird makes it very nice to look at!

Hello, I have a problem with approaches in the q400 with the autopilot disconnecting multiple times during the final approach. I set up for the approach with the ILS frequency tuned in nav 1 & 2 and the course set on both sides. I use nav1 on the left & 2 on the right side as the navigation sources. The LOC and GS seem to capture well and the plane follows the glide path. But once or twice every approach the AP disconnects and the plane goes in to Wings Level and Pitch Hold mode. I removed all No Route lines from the FMS flight plan. Does any of you have the same problem or could hand me a possible solution for this? Or is this the normal behavior for the Q400? I use Fsx with Saitek yoke, throttles and pedals. I use Rex and Opus for weather, but the problems also occurred when I used Fsx default weather. Thanks in advance.

Hi, I came to fly my beloved Majestic Q400 today, and found that the aircraft is suffering huge, nasty flight model jitters in flight. This is nothing to do with the 'jumping on the ground' problem that the Q400 initially suffered, this is entirely an in-flight problem. The aircraft jitters and jumps around - it appears to be the flight model. This is not FPS related. Please take a look at this 0:35 second video. Frame rates remain good throughout - but look at the scenery outside http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ_lEzDvLHY&feature=youtu.be Although I am not blaming any other products, the only products I have installed since the problem started, is the RealAir Duke, and the DX10 Fixer. Has anyone got any ideas what could be causing this issue - the Q400 is pretty much grounded while flying like this. :( Cheers.

Intercity Airways now supports the Majestic Dash 8 Q400 with a full texture pack, FAQ and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) already in place. Our ACARS software is also compatible with the Majestic package. We have over 400 flights using the Q400 just waiting for you to fly, including exciting airports such as London City, Sion and Innsbruck! Visit www.ViaIntercity.com for more details Intercity is a regional virtual airline for FS9 and FSX operating from London City, Birmingham and Edinburgh across Europe using the PMDG Jetstream 41 and now the Majestic MJC Dash 8 Q400 too. Intercity is aimed at pilots who want to be able to simulate real flying as closely as possible. At the time of writing pilots can choose from 600+ daily flights to over 80 destinations. With an average flight time of just 85 minutes, Intercity is the airline for pilots who like to fly and be kept busy!

Hello, a little while ago i was able to taxi using the aircraft using nose wheel steering, but now, for some reason it doesnt work. I have nose wheel steering enabled, but the only thing that works in the aircraft on the ground are the rudders (which dont work well for taxi) and the elevators. P.S. I have Spoiler Axis selected in the controls panel which was suggested but MS. Thanks!