My love for this aircraft comes from a darker place, I was on board the Scandinavian Airlines Q400 that was forced to make an emergency landing in Aalborg thanks to a wheel issue. SK1209. When we touched down, the right side landing gear snapped as it wasn’t locked, and when the engine hit the ground, the propeller blades shot in through the cabin (the captain predicted this so he had moved people sitting next to the engines). No one were hurt, but this was one of 3 almost identical accidents with Scandinavian Airlines Q400 aircraft within just one month, so after this one, SAS immediately grounded their Q400 fleet and they never flew them again. Having experienced this, I got fascinated with aviation after looking into the details of it and it also made me kind of like this aircraft, and my love for it has only grown since then.
I’m amazed at how clever the engineering is on aircrafts, I mean, using changes in the frequency of the vibrations of a tube to detect ice? Fucking brilliant! Engineers will never cease to amaze me! - A student pilot :D
So happy to see you enjoy this rendition of your first love and to help bring you back those memories! Jack says that the prop overspeed will be soon fixed. Glad you liked the sounds, they were very hard to make :-D
Thanks for watching, indeed this is a fantastic model and congratulations on such a successful launch. Good news on the props and indeed the sounds are just perfect, they instantly transport me back in time to being there! Thanks for the comment!
a couple of things i've gleaned from other streams which I've never seen done before: the volume knobs on the radio panel actually control Vatsim's volume (!); and most if not all of the circuit breakers work (!!), which speaks to extreme system modelling above and beyond the call of duty.
Something about this aircraft is so appealing and it has a long history in the domestic travel segment of so many countries. Thanks for your insights, I'm asking Santa for this one for Christmas. I hope I don't get a lump of coal instead ;)
Flew the Q400 a lot in P3D and if it wasn’t for MSFS putting XP’s outside scenery to shame I’d probably reinvest in XP just for this plane. Model looks excellent and the sounds are great (flown on lots of Q400s). Great review as always 👍
Xp12 will put your Xbox game were in belongs....in the trashcan. WHY all the payware for msfs, if it is that beautifully....unless you like mud cake shaped artifact all over the place 🤣
@@nukenabber7228 as I understand it XP12 will only make some minor changes to the scenery engine over XP11, and won’t be available at release, so I doubt it will come close for some time to come.
Your experience with the real aircraft showed during landing. All the other streamers (even pilots), smashed her into the runway because they pulled power.
I am loving your videos as your actual experience helps so much. I recently got the Q4XP and love that there is so much to do and learn. I'm now able to do most of the functions pretty good but still having problems getting a decent landing. With the Toliss A321 it's very easy but this has you doing so much which I love. I've had to watch sections of your videos many times just to see what I screwed up and hopefully I'm catching most of my errors now. I've forgotten a few times to put the throttles to max for landing which has put me in major trouble. With the approach I keep forgetting the heading bug which also causes problems. Looking forward to flying this excellent plane on many journeys. Keep up the good work.
I miss flying the Dash 8. The three things I liked are firstly the amazing sound, especially when applying full rpm before take off and then applying pitch. The second is the immediate power, no spooling up just a kick in the pants. And lastly the sectors. Less about the plane per say but shorter flights, always busy, lots of take offs and landings in the log book, always monitoring with no autothrottle. Best memory was doing first part of a return to manufaxturer flight, taking one from Birmingham to Reykjavik !
@@320SimPilot yer you get a sudden realisation that this thing might be abit more powerful than you think. Flying empty with max fuel over the a vast Atlantic heading towards the setting sun was the first time I felt really small in such a vast empty space. Still get that feeling over the sea now
Fab video! I miss flying the Flybe Dash 8 as a passenger. Lovely sounds and flights - most often between Southampton and Manchester! This modelling is insane
As a dash 8 pilot, i find it funny when you say certain characteristics of the dash are 'quirky' and 'amazing'. I have different words and Im sure you do too 😅. But its those thigs that make me more attached to this awesome machine.
I love so much this type of planes i have been in a Hangar and i entered in a q400 cockpit CS-TRE and in a q200 CS-TRC and I thought they were the same but they have many diferences
Well that brought back some memories!! I think our career path is pretty similar (in my case 5 yrs Q400, 2.5 yrs E-Jet, 6 yrs Airbus). Happy days on the Dash and even happier ones on the superb E-jet with great colleagues and camaraderie! I think you're right that front hold was hold 5 and yes the Alt sel was a nightmare design! Your video even reminded me of that unique Dash 8 toilet aroma! Great video as ever and I always do enjoy the channel. Happy flying! I'd be interested to know what system spec you run - perhaps an interesting future video? I'm currently running an Alienware Aurora R6 with I7-7700, 32GB Ram, RX6800XT and it copes (just) with Toliss/FS2020 in VR on fairly high settings in the Reverb G2.
Hi Jonathan, thanks for the comment, glad to hear you like the channel! This add on indeed conjures all those memories very nicely, the alt sel alone is catching me almost every time! Just think back to the ice cold hands trying to wrestle the prop ties on in the wind, good times! My computer is as follows: i7-10700k, RTX 3080, 32 GB RAM. Manages most things but struggles to stream X Plane with ORBX, detailed add on airports and aircraft all at once!
Hi Jonathan, I hope you’re well. Hi 320 Sim Pilot (don’t know if we flew together) and thanks for this video, it brought back many very fond memories as I loved every minute flying the 400. In my time we hadn’t yet approved and implemented “Reduced Np” landings. One final point, you didn’t put the wipers up! 😆
@@jonathancost4927 Hey - great to hear from you Jonathan and hope you're good!! As you say many fond memories of those Flybe days. Oh yes those wipers!! Isn't it amazing how far these home simulators have come since our Dash days? Not sure if you've tried VR yet but I find it astonishingly realistic and a huge amount of fun to fly all sorts of aircraft around using it. Only the other day I was living out my Top Gun fantasies in an F18 out of Miramar in the late afternoon sun! Sadly there was no Kelly McGillis for me to impress though!!
This is a late comment, but I mainly fly the Dash 8 in Aerofly FS4 and this, despite being a different sim, has helped immensely with my understanding of the aircraft. Thanks.
I have been spending time trying to learn this aircraft. You are correct that the attention to detail is phenomenal. I appreciate your explanation of the throttles and conditioning levers. I am not a real life pilot so this has helped. Still trying to get it to move from the gate to the runway.
Not dirty and grimy enough in the main gear and fuel panel areas, lol. These things were always a mess to fuel, oil leaking out of any gap in the panel, got in the habit of bringing a spill pad with to wipe down everything on opening the panel... and I'll agree about the unreliable APUs, they were always dragging a huffer down to the gate when the afternoon Q4 came in, lol
I've spent a *lot* of time on Flybe's Q400s as a passenger, really interesting to see it from the flight deck! Also fascinating to see all the differences in flying one of these beasts vs the A320.
I just got curious and wanted to learn more about this plane as I fly in it all the time when traveling in Canada. It certainly is the workhorse in The Great White North connecting all our communities. Always has been pleasant flying in one every time. Great commentary, especially for me who knows nothing about planes!
You see the manipulate handle on the cursor during the nose inspection because those doors CAN be opened! They don't stay open, but they do move. Same with the fueling panel. One thing I wouldn't be surprised to see is people complaining about the performance enough such that we lose the quality we see here. Same happen with the TBM900
I saw a manipulate cursor appear when 320simpilot moused over the angle of attack sensor, leading me to suspect that you can probably rotate that as well. madness!
Many thanks for an informative and interesting video. Looking forward to getting my Flight Yoke and throttles set up and getting flying the Q400 again.
This i such a cool aircraft. Its a dream for me to fly in one irl. Im going to fly this one more for sure, i start to think that my a320/21 is a bit to convinient to fly its more of a challenge with the dash 🙂 I have to say though that it feels like majestic made a better job with their plane. Greate video!!
Thanks Rick! The Q400 is based on the older and smaller Q300/200/100 aircraft which also did not have autothrottle. Adding it in would have significantly changed the training required and also the way the automatics work. However for the official reason we would need to ask Bombardier!
@@320SimPilot True. I fly the ERJ145 as well and it too has no autothrottle... one would think these planes would have this. Hmm. Did you ever have the opportunity to fly the 4 engined Dash 7?
Appreciate this video! Learned a lot about this aircraft, which is truly an amazing experience. Just one request, if I may. Please explain in full the setup of the cabin pressurization. Today at 15000 ft the cabin turned dark and the cab press warning light came on. Yesterday I also went to 15000 ft and the cab pressure was OK.
really good...greatly enjoyed this video and just love the sounds. Also seems to handle smoothly. What's your gut feeling of this one vs the Majestic Q400 due out 'soon'?
Thanks for the Great video! Can you do a quick Info-video How you setup your Airbus TCA Stuff to Use it for the dash. Because i use the same System at Home :)
Hi 320 Sim Pilot, I purchased the flyjsim dash8 back in 21, I went to the org store and downloaded the latest update (13March 2023), when I loaded the aircraft it doesn't have the tablet just 2 little blue buttons on the left half way down the screen, I click on the weight & balance but it just opens a blue box? so do I have a different aircraft to the one you have here?
I cant believe they even modelled the paint coming of and scratches on the headset flap where idiots like me used to hang there headsets and take paint of lmao
You can start with GPU power, Battery power or APU. If starting with GPU then you would start one engine before pushback, then start the second one during the pushback!
This plane would be so great if they did not completely mess up the performance. Having basically all xp11 airliners this one is the worst performing of all. It's not even the graphics...the sasl programming seems messed up so the CPU usage is off.
I have a I9-9900 and 3070 and stil very low Fps. In all other payware I have High Fps. Even a vanilla xp i install Fps is around 35. Nice with a lot of circut breakers (i never use) but if all Those click spots are so CPU heavy…..
@@simutrains8723 They actually say opengl can help for the moment as the bugs seem vulcan related....but in the end its a temporary solution...noone wants to switch to a usually slower old and dying platform just to fly one plane.
@@JackJohnson-cm6jk Well I don't see a considerable difference between both platforms, Vulkan seems to always ramdomly crash on my system. But I do hope that FJS fix it for fellow Vulcan users :D
