1 hour ago, micstatic said:

Yeah.  I like flying in alaska and canada also.  But I'll say this. I'm one of those guys who can be ok flying a fictional livery in the "wrong airplane".  

Has de-icing improved with the ATR in recent years?  After the American Eagle crash in Indiana, that pretty much was the final straw for ATRs in the US.

Good thing the same approach isn't taken in DCS World or we'd have an incredibly boring sim!

2 hours ago, micstatic said:

But I'll say this. I'm one of those guys who can be ok flying a fictional livery in the "wrong airplane".

Yup absolutely nothing wrong with that. I've flown my BAE146 with the Carib Express livery all over the world lol. I just like to fly planes I see in operation in the real world in my area. I'd still buy the Q400 but I REALLY want the other one.

4 hours ago, micstatic said:

I'm personally expecting something on the level of the 146.  I don't think they will be doing failures or anything like that. 

If it’s at the level of the 146 I’ll be more than happy, especially at the price point it’ll come in at.

Mind you, in the long run this is probably not doing third party devs any favours. 
Milviz/Blackbird have already decided there’s no point competing with Asobo/Microsoft.

17 minutes ago, DD_Arthur said:

If it’s at the level of the 146 I’ll be more than happy, especially at the price point it’ll come in at.

Mind you, in the long run this is probably not doing third party devs any favours. 
Milviz/Blackbird have already decided there’s no point competing with Asobo/Microsoft.

Still plenty of markets without competition.  I always thought Milviz had too many balls in the air in the first place.  

I'm guessing this will be more in depth than aerosoft but less than fenix

When is it due out?

13 minutes ago, sidfadc said:

When is it due out?

Tomorrow.

 

What to expect from the ATR?  I expect it'll be yet  another airliner that'll run over me while I'm taxiing to the runway! 🙄

I have not followed the development news on this so closely. Isn't this essentially an Aerosoft development and therefore shouldn't we expect a similar fidelity / quality product as the CRJ series?

6 minutes ago, gpbob said:

I have not followed the development news on this so closely. Isn't this essentially an Aerosoft development and therefore shouldn't we expect a similar fidelity / quality product as the CRJ series?

No, Aerosoft is not involved at all. This is a MS/Asobo/Hans Hartmann product.

Edited April 24, 20233 yr by BuboBubo

55:45 in for last month's ATR dev update

 

3 hours ago, Bigbluss said:

Good thing the same approach isn't taken in DCS World or we'd have an incredibly boring sim!

It's interesting how Boeing and other aircraft manufacturers, along with weapons systems manufacturers, have never come out swinging against DCS and ARMA for using their products. It's only civil flight sims that seem to be under this restriction.

I would expect the doors not to open.

4 hours ago, Fiorentoni said:

 Selling ATRs on MSFS gains them no money, but if failures in the ATR in MSFS lead to only one (!) aircraft less being sold, it's a multi-million damage. There's absolutely no gain in allowing failures in the MSFS ATR, but a (very) small risk of a huge loss. So why would they do it?

If my airline CEO summoned a meeting and said 'guys, we're gonna have to let go of our fleet of ATRs. I tried to land one on the Statue of LIberty on my Xbox and really didn't like how it turned out' I'd chuck him out of the next available aircraft.

Legit failures and damage probably excites more prospective pilots and there isn't enough of those. And ultimately having to buy more aircraft.