Premier Aircraft Design Q400 for FSX

[genbrien]

Hi

1st I want to thank the deseigner of that planehttp://www.simviation.com/simviation/?ID=61&page=34&mark=8330. The 2d and 3d panel are awsome as the exterior model.

But there are some things in the FM that, I think, dont reflect reality;
1st: I found that the power of that plane is quite huge at take off, climb and landing(especially with reverse). It accelerate as fast as a F18 and can do over 20kt in reverse

[Brett_Henderson]

I don't know much about big, turbo-prop performance..

First thing that stands out, is that you're getting 290kias at FL250, in a Dash-8-200 ?  They're listed as having a max cruise of ~265knots  TRUE  airspeed. At FL250 that would be about 190kias.

As for adjusting airspeed performance.. just use NotePad, and edit the aircraft.cfg file..  Don't adjust power or tourque until you're fine-tuning.. start out adjusting the propeller thrust. Then mess with parasitic-drag, and induced-drag, so that that your low-altitude and high-altitude performance don't differ so much.

[genbrien]

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First thing that stands out, is that you're getting 290kias at FL250, in a Dash-8-200 ?