New PILOT'S Dash 7 for Microsoft Flight Simulator | First Look Preview and Review [4K - RTX4090]

Releasing this weekend for Microsoft Flight Simulator, the Dash 7 quad-turbo prop airliner aircraft which has been in development for almost two years by PILOT'S, and with a little help from real world operator Air Tindi.

In this video, we keep it simple as I show you what to expect on release day if you were looking to add it to your hangar line-up! We'll tinker with the autopilot, look at the integration with the TDS GTNXI and do some hand flying around wonderful Bella Coola!

Note: This preview version does not have a quick start guide nor manual.

Check out the rest of the website too for lots of resources!

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[tclaytonk]

This is looking more and more like a day-one purchase for me. I've loved the Dash 7 since the early days of FS9 and Milton Shupe's fantastic freeware offering.

[timalder]

😎Bella Coola is alonggggways from Yellowknife, maybe 30 min in a Concorde at altitude

[EJ]

Great preview and review. Looks like an excellent aircraft. I am not sure where it would fit into my hanger, a Dash-8 would be an awesome fit.

[mickynufc]

ive flew on the British Antarctic Survey Dash 7 a number of times. Fantastic airframe

[Spitfire]

My Uncle Tom was project manager for this amazing aircraft! I remember going for a ride in it when it was touring Canada upon it's release. Love to see this awesome bird in the sim!

[exiletsj]

I was really looking forward to this one and was very happy when tds support was announced.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to have the simulation fidelity, that I usually look for. The engines gauges being one giveaway and oversights like that armrest do hint at cutting corners.

[WilliamBugeaterSimpson]

I fly the PMDG DC6 and looking very forward to this new Dash 7. She looks beautiful. Great job on the video. 👍

[diddydavid]

Forget about plane, the commentary
was brilliant

[jay-rus]

Man, you guys amaze me sometimes. Flying so many types of aircraft. I do well to keep up with a300, a320, a330, and tbm 850. After that it takes me forever to try and work my way through another aircraft

[Trex_]

Gotta say, for how long this plane has been in development, and considering SWS’s involvement, its a bit disappointing to see the state its in. The textures look like they lack a lot of definition and depth, and in my opinion, its way too clean for how much of a workhorse the Dash7 is in northern Canada. Having been up close to a dash 7 on several occasions (including Air Tindi’s), the sounds are also quite disappointing. Those 4 blade P&W PT6A’s really have a visceral sound, along with all the hydraulic actuators and over-engineered switches and controls. The aircraft is a good start, but hoping Pilots put in the polish to really make this thing come to life and actually feel like its been flying the backcountry for the better part of 50 years.

[RadioActive_Avaition]

This is why I'm Glad I've had a year break from Flight Sim, And now all these Aircraft That I've Wanted to have Decent Versions of are now coming out in MSFS, The Sound of the PT6's Sound awesome!! Cant wait to get it!

[Roymac]

Back around 1982 I flew on a Canadian Forces Dash 7 from Lahr, Germany to Gatwick. It was a great experience and as it was only the second time I had ever flown at that point it's always been a special memory. Now after 28 years in the Cdn Air Force I've lost count. It seems the Cdn Forces didn't hang onto the Dash 7 for very many years. We had only two of them and they were mostly used shuttle high-ranking officials around Europe when we had bases there.
Oh...and Yellowknife is about 700nm north-east of Bella Coola. Thirty mins via SR-71 perhaps. ;)

[denergodok]

I'm by far a Dash 7 expert myself, but I'm a big fan of this aircraft. Both because it looks and performs amazing and Widerøe used to fly this aircraft here when I was a kid and I fell in love with that airplane back then. I've seen quite a few videos of it and from what I can remember, the usual procedure is to only use engine 2 and 3 for taxing. And from what I've seen they usually don't start engine 1 and 4 until they're on the runway and shut them off as soon as they've slowed down on the landing. Probably both in order to save fuel and also to make it easier to taxi to and from the runway

[kurohone]

A very specific product for a very specific market' is a good description of the real plane as well. de Havilland Canada thought that there was a market for airlines wanting quiet, STOL, pressurized airliners. Except it turned out there weren't many communities that required BOTH features, and the 4-engines were more costly to operate, so not many were sold. To their credit DHC realized their error and came out with the quiet, efficient, but not STOL Dash-8, which sold.... somewhat better.

[simprove]

Lovely video and I've ordered the addon. The Dash 7 certainly wasn't overpowered. Think of it as a Dash 8-300 with four engines, each with half the power. The power to weight ratio was roughly equivalent. Also it was much more modern than a Douglas DC-6, had a proper autopilot, nothing like as basic as the gyropilot that had, so the comparison to that isn't apt. The DC-6 first flew in 1946, the Dash 7 in 1975.

[cavok]

From what I saw, it could use a little refinement. Overall, I have to say I like it from what you showed us Luke. I think the engines should sound a little more "throaty" with the big props and I would have liked to have seen a little more wear and tear (especially in the the cockpit) so it shows it's age a bit more. But that is just me. But otherwise, it looks a nice addition to the sim

[mariuszk]

Hi. I love to watch the moment when the propellers of an airplane are launched...👍

[Flyairtindi]

Love it! Great video.... But Bella Coola BC is not very close to us.... we're much further North in Yellowknife NWT :)

[BtcSimmer]

these are a rare aircraft i may play around with this on my channel thank you! for an intro!

[chrisjohnson]

Great looking Dash 7 indeed. Just an FYI, Bella Coola is a far distance from Yellowknife.