Yup gotta pass on this one for now...

Hans always seemed very dedicated to continually working on the FSX model. I would doubt that he was excited about it's currant condition. 

2 minutes ago, jimcarrel said:

Hans always seemed very dedicated to continually working on the FSX model. I would doubt that he was excited about it's currant condition. 

Unfortunately his work has been released in this current condition.
I'm sure he's well aware that's it's not actually ready but it's a question of whether MS are serious about putting in the money to get it fixed up.

1 hour ago, Fiorentoni said:

So I took it for a quick ride, manual flight for the most part with some basic AP turns and climbs, just starting up the engines and go. It felt good handflying, not twitchy at all.

same here, I have no prior experience with any ATR and only a short 45 minute hop and hand flying with some simple autopilot support, no FMC yet, no ILS approach neither. but hand flying felt gorgeous, very stable in the air, held heading and altitude perfectly. fantastic ground steering, cockpit interior in VR superb, VR 45 fps at the airport, 65 in the air. comprehensive tablet features, easy to read the fine print in the large glass panels even in VR! the only thing I didn't like as much were the sounds: a little weak, needs more oompph. other than that: didn't expect so much fun since the ATR looks kind of the dullest of all turboprops I have seen, will need to spend a lot more time learning to handle it. at € 12.99 an incredible steal, only possible through MSFS/Joerg Neumann.

Edited April 25, 20233 yr by turbomax

29 minutes ago, Farlis said:

Yes. As having delivered a very fine ATR for FS9 and FSX previously.

and a very questionable crj after that for this platform. So lets not go there...

1 hour ago, Stearmandriver said:

No VNAV coupling, unable to fly a hold course reversal etc... Certainly doesn't sound like it works correctly.  And those are officially acknowledged bugs, not user opinion...

This is a big nope from me.  Not that I expected much after the Twin Otter debacle, but still... Asobo should have known better than to make "expert level" claims...

For me there's a fundamental difference here with the Twin Otter. A huge amount of effort has clearly gone into the ATR, it's problem is that isn't not finished yet, whereas no-one involved in the Twin otter project appears to put in any more the bare minimum of effort (and some appear not to have had the slightest clue what they were doing)

4 minutes ago, turbomax said:

same here, only a short 45 minute hop and hand flying with some simple autopilot support, no FMC yet, no ILS approach neither. but hand flying felt gorgeous, very stable in the air, held heading and altitude perfectly. fantastic ground steering, cockpit interior in VR superb, VR 45 fps at the airport, 65 in the air. comprehensive tablet features, the only thing I didn't like as much were the sounds: a little weak, needs more oompph. other than that: didn't expect so much fun since the ATR looks kind of the dullest of all turboprops I have seen, will need to spend a lot more time learning to handle it.

Can you import saved plan into the FMS? I'm used to using the GTN750 where it just show up automagically. Or do we have to input everything all over again?

2 hours ago, Tuskin38 said:

I don't know. I did put in a flight plan by hand.

Still can't get NAV going, even after loading a flight plan in the FMC.

When I activate the AP I hit FD button [LHSide], set Altitude, set VS, hit AP, then NAV, but when I hit NAV button, HDG SEL comes up & it follows a Heading.

Do you do anything different to the above??

T45

2 hours ago, Krakin said:

I mean, a ton of work has been put into making the A310 better after release and that thing is free....

 

Yeah and presumably MS has paid iniBuilds to do that, while from what OrbX have said MS don't appear very interested in paying for more work to be done on the Caribou.
Without MS paying for fixes (or fixing it themselves) the changes aren't going to get made.

1 minute ago, ricka47 said:

Can you import saved plan into the FMS?

sorry, haven't tried any of the more complex stuff during my first 45 minutes in an ATR ever. took me a couple minutes to even find the cockpit lights, should have RBG lighting like my new DDR5 RAM.😄

1 hour ago, Stearmandriver said:

No VNAV coupling, unable to fly a hold course reversal etc... Certainly doesn't sound like it works correctly.  And those are officially acknowledged bugs, not user opinion...

This is a big nope from me.  Not that I expected much after the Twin Otter debacle, but still... Asobo should have known better than to make "expert level" claims...

Just a small correction to spare Asobo all the criticism, as with other recent official releases (including MSFS 40th Anniversary), Asobo is probably not the developer of the aircraft (certainly not the main one). The developer of ATR is S&H Software (Hans Hartmann) and it is published by Microsoft. This can be seen quite clearly on Microsoft  Marketplace, where aircrafts developed directly by Asobo (Aviat Husky, Top Rudder Solo) are labeled as such and are separated from aircrafts developed by third parties (iniBuilds, ATSimulations, Carenado) and released by Microsoft.

Edited April 25, 20233 yr by Ohmsquare

2 minutes ago, ricka47 said:

Can you import saved plan into the FMS? I'm used to using the GTN750 where it just show up automagically. Or do we have to input everything all over again?

There are company and pilot route options in the FMC which might well allow loading saved files but without instructions describing how that would work we're in the dark.

I've got some weird mapping, but hitting the right mouse button makes me move forward.

I am missing something obvious here. I've gone into the mouse options and removed all right click actions.

3 minutes ago, Matchstick said:

There are company and pilot route options in the FMC which might well allow loading saved files but without instructions describing how that would work we're in the dark.

Right - some basic instructions would have been handy!

My issue is that the numbers are too small to read.