The MJC8 Q400 addon for Microsoft Flight Simulator X and Lockheed Martin Prepar3d is a highly realistic rendition, built after the Bombardier (tm) Dash8 Q400 aircraft. There are 4 editions, differentiating in the price and the included features.
"PILOT" is an edition, designed for home flightsimmers, who want a state-of-the-art hardcore add-on but do not require the complex features, such as the instructor panel system monitoring, circuit breakers simulation, failures simulation, or the shared cockpit.
"PRO" edition is for advanced users, or airline pilots wishing to improve their knowledge of the Dash8 Q400 airplane. This edition has all the features of the PILOT edition, plus the Headup Guidance System simulation, the shared cockpit feature and several more (please see the comparative table below for the full list).
"TRAINING" edition is dedicated for the experienced flight simmers and for the flight and ground crews, wishing to have an inexpensive solution to study the Q400 systems and to prepare for the simulator checkides at home
"COCKPIT" edition is dedicated to home cockpit builders.
"AIRLINE" edition is a non-restricted version of the COCKPIT edition above, which includes a license for the professional use. For more information about options and pricing of this edition please contact support@majesticsoftware.com
System requirements: Any PC capable of running Flight Simulator under MS Windows 7, 10
Supported versions
32 bit editions (PILOT and PRO only) : Microsoft FSX Service Pack 2, Acceleration or Steam / Lockheed Martin Prepar3d v3.4
64 bit edition (PILOT, PRO, TRAINING and COCKPIT): Prepar3D V5.x, Prepar3D V6.x
Network requirements for the shared cockpit: Minimum data exchange rate of 256 Kb/sec, ability to forward the data to the UDP ports, network delay < 1000ms
The table below enumerates all the main features per version. Click on each feature to see the full description.
| FEATURES | PILOT | PRO | TRAINING | COCKPIT |
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| CUSTOM FLIGHT DYNAMICS ENGINE
Our addon is the
only one available on the market, which includes a built-in Flight
Dynamics Engine completely independent from the default FSX FDE. The
consequence of this is a much more realistic aerodynamics behavior of
the aircraft, in particular the realistic wind simulation, enhahced
propeller physics including the propeller discing and auto rotation,
effects of the propeller airstream on the wing lift and the icing
effects on the propeller, wings and the flight surfaces.
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• | • | • | • |
| WEATHER RADAR
The Weather Radar
is capable of interpolating the weather returns, based on the actual FSX
weather, using the FSX Weather Stations reports. The Weather Radar can
work with both the FSX Real Weather, and the Weather Environment addons
capable of setting the per-station weather. The PRO version of the Q400
is capable of reading the weather radar data from the ASN. The beam
geometry is also simulated in order to depict the weather based upon the
aircraft altitude, antenna tilt and the altitude of the weather itself.
There is a ground clutter and the weather shadow effects. In addition
there is a ground mapping mode simulation, capable of showing the
surrounding terrain. The weather clutter in the ground mode is also
simulated.
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• | • | • | • |
| TCAS
The Traffic
Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) simulates most of the ICAO defined
CASII functions, and provides the traffic indication, as well as the
traffic and resolution advisories. The TCAS works with both the AI
traffic, and the virtual ATC network traffic (Vatsim/IVAO..)
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• | • | • | • |
| FMS NAVIGATION, FUEL MANAGEMENT AND BASIC PERFORMANCE
The dual Flight
Management System, included in the package is built after the Universal ™
1E FMS, and is developed with a high degree of detalization. The FMS
system is capable of navigation in 3 dimensions (LNAV+VNAV), the RNP
based navigation, the Fuel and Performance Management. The up to date
navigation database, provided by our navigation data supplier Navigraph
(subject to the additional charges, please see the http://navigraph.com
for details), can be used to obtain the latest procedures. In addition,
there is a custom provisions to control the availability of the ground
services and the flow of the passenger announcements.
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• | • | • | • |
| USER DOCUMENTATION
The documentation
for each edition includes the systems tutorial, sample flight guide,
Control Panel application tutorial, checklists and performance tables.
The PRO and TRAINING edition also include the items pertaining to the
abnormal operations (checklists and the system tutorial)
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• | • | • | • |
| VIRTUAL COCKPIT AND EXTERNAL MODELS
Highly detailed external and cockpit models with HD textures and special effects.
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• | • | • | • |
| ADDITIONAL LIVERIES AND PAINTKIT
Detailed layered paintkit in Photoshop format with a unique stitching tool
19 high resolution liveries from around the world : |
• | • | • | • |
| PASSENGER ANNOUNCEMENTS
In addition to the
default announcements included with the aircraft, our scripting based
announcement system allowes for building the custom announcements both
per-livery or global. The announcement script can play the user defined
sound files based upon the current condition of the aircraft systems and
control states, thus allowing for a very customized and realistic
announcement flows, specific to the particular airlines.
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• | • | • | • |
| FMS FPL WINDS
The FMS FPL winds
functionality which is currently in development, and will be provided in
the version 1.1 update, will allow the FMS to account for the enroute
winds, thus increasing the fuel and time prediction accuracy.
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• | • | • | • |
| SAVING AND LOADING SYSTEMS' STATE
When saving or loading the flight in the Flight Simulator, the systems will also store or retrieve their respective states
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• | • | • | • |
| CUSTOM SOUND SYSTEM
Our product
includes its own Sound System, independant of the Microsoft Flight
Simulator sound system. The sound system is Direct X based, and is using
the custom DSP (Digital Signal Processing) effects to simulate the
propeller sounds correctly. In addition, the system is 3D enabled for
both the external and internal sounds, including the switches and
controls sounds, as well as the voice announcements.
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• | • | • | • |
| ADDON CONTROL PANEL APPLICATION
The Addon Control
Panel Application (CPAN) allowes the user to visually modify the most
important parameters of the aircraft, as well as verify and apply the
custom Weight and Balance configurations.
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• | • | • | • |
| SHARED COCKPIT FEATURE
The Shared
Cockpit is the way for two users to share the same cockpit over the
network. Our Shared Cockpit syncronizes 2 instances of the addon over
the home network or the internet. It is also possible to invite a third
person to the cockpit as observer.
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• | • | • | |
| COMPLETELY CUSTOMIZABLE FAILURE SYSTEM
Our product is
coming with a sophisticated scripting system, which can be used to set
the scenarios for any failures in the airplane. The scenario can be
random as well as triggered by the predefined conditions (engine failure
on V1, for example). The scenarios can also be written by the users and
include the scenario flow logic as well as the custom sound playback.
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• | • | • | |
| RANDOM FAILURES
A number of
default failures will occur at a rate close to that in the real life. An
aircraft can be made more reliable or less reliable as desired by the
user. TRAINING contains more extensive list of the random failures than
the PRO edition
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• | • | • | |
| HEADUP GUIDANCE SYSTEM
The HGS allowes
for operation of the aircraft under weather minimums up to CAT IIIa. Our
HGS includes a system control panel and the Headup Display. The HGS
system also accounts for the pilot head position and view angle in a
Virtual Cockpit.
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• | • | • | |
| 4x SMOOTHER CONTROLS
Configurable
direct link to the joystick axis, allowing for 125Hz frequency of
controlling the Flight Dynamics (as opposite to 30Hz frequency of the
FSX), as well as bypassing the extensive filtering of Flight Controls by
the FSX
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| SOUND SYSTEM ADVANCED MODE
In the PRO edition
and higher, our Sound System can, in addition to the 3D mode, be
configured to reproduce the particular sound groups via the dedicated
speaker(s), such enabling the sophisticated home simulation setups. In
addition, the sound system supports a second sound device (including the
USB headsets) which can be used to separately output the headphone
sounds.
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• | • | • | |
| AUTOPILOT TCS MODE
The Touch Control
Steering mode allowes the pilot to use the control column movements to
command the autopilot mode parameters, such as altitude, vertical speed
and the indicated airspeed adjustments, without having to disengage the
autopilot.
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• | • | • | |
| FMS ETP/PNR FUNCTIONALITY
The Equal Time
Point (ETP) and Point of No Return (PNR) calculations are the advanced
functions of the Performance management (PERF), used during the
navigation in the deserted areas (oceanic navigation, deserts...) in
order to verify that the aircraft has sufficient fuel to proceed to the
selected destination in the normal and/or abnormal conditions.
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• | • | • | |
| 2D PANELS
The full set of
the 2D panels, which can be used to fly the aircraft the "traditional"
way, or build a multiscreen cockpit by moving the panels onto the
multiple monitors.
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• | • | • | |
| WORKING CIRCUIT BREAKERS SIMULATION
We provide the
simulation for all the circuit breakers in the cockpit with the correct
mapping between the circuit breakers and the electrical equipment. The
circuit breakers popup on short circuit is also simulated
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| ALTERNATE GEAR EXTENSION
In the cases of
the main gear retraction/extension system failre, the gear can be
manually extended by using the alternate gear extension mechanism, which
includes a manual hydraulic pump and a nose gear release assembly
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• | • | • | |
| SYSTEM CONTROL APPLICATION
Is an external
application, which can be used to monitor the status of the aircraft
systems and apply the selected system failures over the network. In the
PRO edition, Electric, Hydraulic and Avionics systems are included. The
the TRAINING and COCKPIT edition also adds Powerplant and Flight Controls system pages, as well as the ability to trigger the failure or training scenario scripts remotely from a Syspan application screen
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| FMS ARINC WEATHER | • | • | • | |
| FLIGHT CONTROLS DISCONNECT SIMULATION
In the TRAINING
edition, the flight controls can be disconnected and the respective
independant flight controls system will account for the pilot flying
position (based upon the pilot head position in the Virtual Cockpit, or
the type of the main panel in the 2D cockpit).
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| EXTENDED JOYSTICK COCKPIT HARDWARE INTERFACE
The Extended joystick cockpit hardware interface allows for linkng every cockpit control to a joystick compatible hardware
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| FMS RAIM SIMULATION
FMS will provide the RAIM prediction, and simulate the changing GPS accuracy accordingly
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• | • | CUSTOM FLIGHT DATA RECORDER
The Flight Data
Recorder is a 2D panel, which can be used
to record and visually reproduce a flight, such allowing for the
classroom demonstration or analysis of the particular situations in the
aircraft operation.
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• | • |
| WING TYPE FLIGHT DIRECTOR
An option for the wing type (flying wing) flight director
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| SEPARATE LEFT AND RIGHT SIDE 2D POPUPS
Training and Cockpit editions include separate pop-ups for each EFIS screen (left and right) as well as each ARCDU and MCDU (FMS)
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| SURFACE SLOPES SUPPORT
The surface normals (surface angle) of the Prepar3D are integrated into the Q400 FDE, allowing for the correct visuals and physics when operating on addon runways with a slope
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| TRUE GLASS PRECIPITATION LIBRARY INTEGRATION (optional)
The TFDi Design TrueGlass (optional) provides the precipitation visuals on cockpit windows
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| TOUCH SCREEN MULTI-MONITOR COCKPIT 2D PANELS
A panel
configuration where individual segments of the cockpit panels can be
stacked to fit the desired display configuration. The panels also
contain a separate set better suited for touch screen displays
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| RPC COCKPIT HARDWARE INTERFACE
The RPC Cockpit
Hardware Interface allows to access the data of the Q400 from within the
flight simulator itself (either via a custom gauge and a module)
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| NETWORK COCKPIT HARDWARE INTERFACE
The Network
Hardware Interface is a UDP based network interface, which allows the
network-enabled cockpit hardware to access all of the Q400 addon cockpit
data
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| SEPARATE EFIS SCREENS APPLICATION
A windows
executable application allowing to show all vector screens, such as
EFIS, FMS, ARCDU, CAUTION LIGHTS PANEL or STANDBY INSTRUMENT on a
separate networked PC
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| HARDWARE INTERCOM SUPPORT
An array of audio matrix (inputs->outputs) coefficient variables, facilitating a building of a hardware audio intercom
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| PRICE | 40.49 € | 60.99 € | 99.99 € | 294.95 € |
| All prices are approximate, and excluding sales tax. Please refer to the particular online stores for the exact price. | ||||
| UPGRADE | Upgrades can be issued by the particular online stores, subject to the store policy | |||
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