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Dash 8 panel for FS9

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SSI01

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I installed a number of aircraft years ago into FS9 but am just now getting around to getting them out of the hangar to fly. I'm learning some interesting things in the process.

PAD put out some very good DHC-8 models years ago and I installed them IAW instructions. I'm now finding FS9 is rejecting some of the gauges (EICAS-related), I'm getting the dialog box saying the bird will be loaded but the gauge(s) will be disabled. 2 questions:

1) Is there some sort of formatting error in the gauges that makes them incompatible with FS9?

2) Does anyone know of a good replacement panel for the DHC-8, any variant? I've searched this site, Flightsim, Avsim, Simviation - the most I can find is a Dash-8 Q400 panel, which will work for some variants. Right now I've downloaded a panel for the Fairchild-Dornier Do-328 to serve as a substitute but this is as a last resort.
 
If you do an advanced search for the word Dreamwings and choose FS9 Panels as the category, you'll get two choices for Dash 8 panels. Personally, I've haven't trid to fly the Q4 in quite a while. DW's model is brilliant, but something was off on the flight dynamics. (Can't remember what it was now.) The DW model just uses the 737 panel, so I tossed that one right off. I don't see where I ever tried to use either of the panels that I came up with on today's search, so I might have to give it another shot. For my own stop-gap, I just put in a copy of the Beach Baron panel.
 
Thanks for the tip. I note there is an update to one of the panels that will fix an annoying bounce to the aircraft's nose gear that occurs no matter how gently one sets it down on landing. There's also a quiver associated with the aircraft while on the ground that would make real passengers bolt for the doors. I'll see how this works. File I downloaded was "dash8q4.zip," along with "d8q4up12.zip."
 
Looks like this is the one! Thanks again Tom for finding it.

Interesting aside: I went to FS Pilot Shop on a hunch that didn't pay off - even the add-on panel programs don't have a Dash-8 panel. For some reason this bird just isn't grabbing the attention of the panelistas.
 
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