If you actually did purchase the plane you would find this info in the supplied PDF Guide, it clearly mentions where the yoke hide spots are, and also mentions that the PMS50 GTN 750 will be supported in the very near future.
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It’s been a while, but from memory the yoke is hidden by clicking either at the top, or bottom of the control column.
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The ground handling seems to be an error on your part if you are taxiing with all condition levers full forward. The Dash 7 can be taxied just fine, as in real life, with just the outer engines, which also aids the turn radius.
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Looking at older screen shots further up the thread, it seems these details were never present on the model. Too bad, guess I’ll skip this one.
I’m not. The plane moves on its own even with only one engine running and with the prop/condition lever set to the lowest setting. This is not a problem in and of itself, but the complete lack of a ground/beta range makes it a problem. Pulling the throttles back below flight idle doesn’t provide progressively less thrust until you hit DISC where there should be basically no thrust. Instead, any position below flight idle produces a significant amount of reverse thrust.
Can you share a link please? I searched and found no review of this plane. I’d really love to see the thing in motion, not just screenshots.
TYVM. I will be waiting for a review. These “stealth” releases are always somewhat sus to me 
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There are four simulated PT6A-50 engines in the Dash 7. As a developer we have one file called engines.cfg that allows us to define the engine model for all four engines.
I’m not sure I understand what exactly you expect to not be the same or similar?
Jerome
The entire cockpit and gauges are all designed, modeled and textured by SimWorks Studios. In fact the entire aircraft was created from scratch by SimWorks Studios for PILOT’S.
At PILOT’S we have amended some of the code and added features such as the gust lock, the nose wheel doors dropping slowly due to a lack of hydraulic pressure after the engines are turned off, plus integrating the GTN and GNS into the cockpit.
I’m not sure I understand why anyone would suggest that the Dash 7 cockpit is not well implemented, as SimWorks Studios are known for their high caliber work.
Jerome
POH download here:
I flew it and after about an hour, something turned off the avionics and radios. The engines continued to function but there was a red tape over the (still accurate) engine readouts. The batteries and generators were all online. I did manage to get some back after turning on the DC Ext power (at ~3000 feet no less) and land the plane, but it was rather jarring to lose radios and AP functions on approach into KATL. I will fly that flight again to see if it happens around the same time or if I hit something that would turn everything off like that.
This confirms my suspicions, thanks. Comparing the dev mode engine debug screen values to the figure on page 274, it’s clear that the engine model is completely wrong.
When moving the throttles even the slightest bit below flight idle, the blade beta angle immediately jumps from the flight idle angle of about 10 degrees (the angles in the sim may be off by about one degree but that’s not important right now) all the way to the max reverse angle of -14.5 degrees. There is no ground beta range at all which explains why the plane wants to run away no matter the throttle setting.
Edit: Additionally, when moving the throttles forward of flight idle, the blade angle doesn’t even start increasing from 10 degrees until about 33% throttle, and in fact it won’t reach the 20.2 degree angle shown in the diagram even at max throttle; it’ll only go to about 18 degrees.
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This seems to be like every turboprop in MSFS, as Asobo does not provide the means to model the beta range correctly. I have seen this behaviour with all turboprop aircraft I’ve looked at, as soon as reverse thrust is initiated, the maximum reverse angle is active, so I’m not sure what developers can do to improve that without Asobo providing the ability to correctly simulate the beta range.
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The Black Square TBM 850 does have a fully functional beta range (I just checked using the debug tools) so it’s definitely doable, but I’m not sure if it uses custom systems code to achieve the desired effect.
It is available to me i just looked
It’s still showing the “add to shopping cart” button next to the price, try pressing that. I think the “Soon …” is just a glitch with the website. When the plane was released, it took a while for the site to become fully functional. At first it was just a blank page but I refreshed the page every now and then, and more of the content kept showing up.
Sorted it out. You click on the orange button by the amount. A bit confusing as it doesn’t say purchase.
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Marketplace, planned or not?
Absolutely, but unfortunately there is usually a 4 week queue from when we submit a product to when it become available there. Any updates we make to the Dash 7 will also be delayed there and will always appear directly at our own online store.
Jerome
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