The **De Havilland Canada DHC-8** is a family of regional, twin-turboprop aircraft. Originally developed by De Havilland Canada, the DHC-8 was designed with the intention to build an aircraft between the DHC-7 and the DHC-6. The only aircraft of this family still being produced again is the DHC-8-400, now again by a company named De Havilland Aircraft of Canada Limited, a subsidiary of Longview Aviation Capital that also owns Viking Air, a company that produces an updated version of the DHC-6.

## VARIANTS
* DHC-8-100 / Dash 8 Q100 / DH8A
* DHC-8-200 / Dash 8 Q200 / DH8B
* DHC-8-300 / Dash 8 Q300 / DH8C
* DHC-8-400 / Dash 8 Q400 / DH8D

## MAIN AUTHORS
* **MaverickAlex:** original author of the Dash8 Q300
* **Florian K:** major 3D work, especially cockpit, exterior and the pushback truck
* **Bea Wolf (D-ECHO):** systems, instruments, FDM, 3D
* **Joshua Davidson (Octal450):** FDM work

## THANKS
A special thanks goes to these people:

* **Thalass (C-THAL):** superb images and measurements from real DHC8 aircraft, some used as textures, the rest as references
* **Sven Seipp (D-SVEN):** Livery work (AirBerlin, Austrian Airlines, Austrian Airlines (Star Alliance)
* **Jonathan Redpath (legoboyvdlp):** Livery work (Porter Airlines, Alaska Airlines Express (2017), Flugfelag Islands, Qantas Link)
* **rjrm (via forum.flightgear.org):** Livery work (Air Baltic and Flybe livery improvements, new Flybe livery), Sounds
* **Andreas Spiekermann:** 3D improvements to the wing fairing; Sounds and Livery work (Alaska Airlines (N44IQX), Luxair (LX-LGA), Bangladesh Airlines)
* **icalder (via GitHub):** spotted and fixed a bug with the ADF display and enabled DME display on the PFD
* **Syd Adams, Patten and the whole CitationX team:** the currently used CDU is adapted from this aircraft

## SOUNDS SOURCES
* **CRJ700-family:** apu_run.wav, apu_shutdown.wav, apu_start.wav
* **A320-family:** detent.wav (originally detenta.wav/detentb.wav)
* **747-400:** shaker.wav
* **Andreas Spiekermann:** reverse.wav, intern.wav, out.wav
* **own production:** cabincall.wav, gear_horn.wav, master_caution.wav, master_warning_400.wav, master_warning.wav, to_horn.wav

## LICENSE

    The DHC-8 for FlightGear is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.

    The DHC-8 for FlightGear is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with the DHC-8 for FlightGear.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

**For more information, see the file COPYING**

## BUG REPORTS
Please report any bugs you find to the aircraft's authors, either via the FlightGear Forum or directly.  

** Important: Autopush related bugs should be reported here: https://gitlab.com/mdanil/flightgear-autopush/issues **
