>When you all say that ATR endorses the product, do they use>it for training purposes? Just curious. No, that'd be illegal. However, it doens't take too much of a leap to see that with Flight 1 expanding into licensed flight simulation product (the 172) that they would be well-placed to take advantage of the fact that difference between desktop and multi-million full simulators is closing fast.It certainly makes you wonder.Allcott

>ATR supplied people to test and evaluate the model in order to>get it as close to the real thing as possible within the>framework of MSFS2004.>Only when they were satisfied was the product released to the>general public.Unfortunately, with this also came ATR's demand that no failures would be implemented. Ok, for obvious reasons but in simulator (entertainment) use it takes away some of it's potential. Hey, if real pilots train for emergencies in a simulator then why couldn't we?Just a thought. I do own the F1 ATR and I think it's GREAT.

Thanks for the responses!! So they do not use it for training purposes and failures are not implemented into the simulator. Good to know.