Canadian Regional Dash-8-102
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Canadian Regional Dash 8-102 C-GTPB "Spirit of Peace Country" serves Canada's west coast from Vancouver International.  

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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Thank you to Chris and Gerritt for allowing the repaint of their excellent Dash-8 aircraft. 

Visual model and performance model by Chris Bawden.  Textures and night
lighting modification by Gerritt Kranenbarg. Repaint by Shane Strong (Nova Scotia), technical consultation (I got the pictures and reg numbers :-) )and readme editor, Mike Adamo (Calgary).

Comments on original work to Chris - chrisb@uq.net.au or Gerritt - g.kranenbarg@planet.nl
Comments on repaint to Shane Strong - sstrong1@bwr.eastlink.ca or Mike Adamo - madamo@home.com


This aircraft may ""not"" be distributed or modified in any way without the 
permission of the authors. If you would like to repaint this aircraft, PLEASE, PLEASE e-mail Chris or Gerritt and ask.


INSTALLATION
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Create a new subdirectory in your Flight Sim 2000 Aircraft directory (ie Flight Sim 2000\Aircraft\AirAtlanticDH8) then extract the file into your new directory using the "Use Folder Names" option in Winzip. It will automatically create the Sound, Panel, Texture, and Model subdirectories. 


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.

Using the FS2000 jet model has a number of compromises.  Fuel consumption 
is about right at 20,000 ft and 25,000 ft and higher at 15,000 ft (700 vs 600 lb hr).  
The turboprop flight model is spot on though, so if you want the most realistic 
flight model then I suggest that you get a copy of the professional version of FS2000.



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

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
- 69% n1

@ 20,000 ft
- 250kts true
- approx 185kts indicated
- 70% n1

@ 25,000 ft 
- 250kts true
- approx 170kts indicated
- 72% n1

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

Descent
- 1,500 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
