VIRTUALCOL - DASH 8 SERIES FS2004
I enthusiastically purchased the Virtualcol Dash 8 Series two years ago and my review is a mixed bag of positives and negatives. I like the vast amount of choices from the global airline community as well as the four models of the Dash 8 propliner. The airframes are well done and while a few of the airlines are now defunk (example, Air Jamaica), it's still a joy to fly them on the flight sim platform. The Virtualcol Dash 8 Series cockpit panels are very disappointing. The company claims they are functional but my experience is quite different. They are ABYSMAL at best and I was forced to delete the Virtualcol cockpit panels and replace and upgrade them with the cockpit panel from the Just Flight Dash 8-300 Professional software which offers better visual instrument graphics and a very functional and programmable CDU (FMC). So with the 149 Virtualcol Dash 8 models and the 17 from the Just Flight Dash 8 Professional software, I'm a happy camper with 166 Dash 8 propliners to choose from.