Sunstate Dash 8
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Dash 8 VH-TNG of Sunstate airlines.  Sunstate is a wholly owned subsidiary
of QANTAS and operates in the states of Queensland and northern New South
Wales in Australia.

This FS2000 model has full moving parts including, gear, gear doors, airlerons, 
elevator, spoilers, flaps and a steerable nose wheel.  Texture features include
separate textures for gear up/down and full night lighting including strobe 
effect on upper tail surface and additional night lighting effects with gear down.

Note: As there are separate textures for gear up/down for the engines and the 
front 2/3s of the fuselage the textures may redraw on gear extension/retraction.


CREDITS
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Visual model and performance model by Chris Bawden.  Textures and night
lighting modification by Gerritt Kranenbarg.  

Comments to Chris - chrisb@uq.net.au
         or Gerritt - g.kranenbarg@planet.nl

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This aircraft may not be distributed or modified in any way without the 
permission of the authors.


INSTALLATION
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Just unzip into your FS2000 aircraft directory.  This file works only with FS2000 professional version.  If you are not using FS2000 professional version you will 
also need to download a QFdash8std.zip that contains replacement files to allow 
this aircraft to work on FS2000 standard version.


FS2000 vs real Dash 8-100
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Dash 8 performance information was supplied by Andy Serenc, Sunstate
Airlines (QANTAS regional) Shorts 360 check captain.  Sunstate also 
fly the Dash 8 and the performance figures reflect the Dash 8-100 model
used by Sunstate.

The FS2000 flight model was based on performance information for the real
aircraft.  The only setting I was unable to replicate was the prop rpm
settings.  The real Dash 8 prop settings are Takeoff - 1,200rpm, 
Climb - 1,050rpm and Cruise - 900rpm.  As the flight model is based on the
standard Kingair I wasn't able to modify the prop rpms down to the Dash 8
settings so the prop rpms quoted in the performace information above are 
not realistic.  However all other settings do match the real Dash 8-100 
performance specifications.


PERFORMANCE
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The information below is also listed in the aircraft checklist and can be
accessed from FS2000 by selecting -> Aircraft -> Kneeboard -> Checklists
from the menu.

Fuel
The Dash 8 100 will take 5,600lbs of fuel.  Setting tanks at 100% will 
give you 5,600lbs of fuel and place the aircraft weight at maximum
takeoff weight.  A more normal fuel load would be tanks at 65% which will
give you a takeoff weight of 32,900lbs and a range of about 1,150nm (2,130kms).

Takeoff
- Flap 5 or 15 
- Rotate - 95kts

Climb Power
- < 10,000 ft - 80% to 90% torque
- >10,000 ft, < 20,000 ft - 75% to 80% torque
- > 20,000 ft - 70% to 75% torque

Rate of climb
- 1,500 fpm - < 10,000 ft
- reducing to 1,000 fpm by 20,000 ft
- reducing to 500 fpm by 25,000 ft

Climb Speed (indicated)
- Standard Profile - 160kts

Cruise
@ 15,000 ft
- 200kts true
- approx 170kts indicated
- 72% torque
- pull prop levers back to 1,500rpm to reduce to 600lb hr fuel consumption

@ 20,000 ft
- 250kts true
- approx 185kts indicated
- 65% torque
- pull prop levers back to 1,500rpm to reduce to 550lb hr fuel consumption

@ 25,000 ft 
- 250kts true
- approx 170kts indicated
- 55% torque
- pull prop levers back to 1,500rpm to reduce to 470lb hr fuel consumption

Max Cruise
- 268kts @ 15,000 ft
- 266kts @ 20,000 ft

Descent
- 1,700 fpm

Approach
- Max gear extension - 158 kts
- max flaps -  5 - 148 kts
            - 15 - 148 kts
            - 35 - 130 kts
Landing
- Flaps 35 - 95 kts
- Flaps 15 - 100 kts
- Flaps 0 - 120 kts
- Stall - 79 kts
