I just wonder is it my side issue or a common one...

Does the new ATR have some power issues ? Did anyone notice that ? Plane climbs very slowly with CLB barely 500ft/per/min and it won't hold speed with CRZ....

The ATR is a dog IRL.

We don’t cruise at FL250 unless we’re pretty light. Fully loaded 72s generally around 190/200.

In the 42, expect 290 TAS or so, in the 72, 270ish.

It’s not a fast airplane. Q400s have more power in one engine than the ATR has in both.

For normal ops, power levers in the notch, and props in AUTO at all times. Manage power with the power management knobs. See what you get.

Edited 19 hours ago19 hr by ATRguy

1 hour ago, Raam1234 said:

I just wonder is it my side issue or a common one...

Does the new ATR have some power issues ? Did anyone notice that ? Plane climbs very slowly with CLB barely 500ft/per/min and it won't hold speed with CRZ....

Yes it does. Apparently they put the 42 engines on the 72 and viceversa. It's an ridiculously awful update

4 hours ago, Raam1234 said:

Does the new ATR have some power issues

Yes.

4 hours ago, Fiorentoni said:

Yes it does. Apparently they put the 42 engines on the 72 and viceversa. It's an ridiculously awful update

You jest..... surely?

I'm not sure that's the case, because neither variant can reach cruise speed. If the 42 had the 72's engine, I'm sure it would reach cruise speed fine.

Edited 12 hours ago12 hr by Tuskin38

27 minutes ago, Tuskin38 said:

I'm not sure that's the case, because neither variant can reach cruise speed. If the 42 had the 72's engine, I'm sure it would reach cruise speed fine.

What cruise speed are you expecting?

This was my climb rate today, in a fully loaded 42.

https://ibb.co/VWGt5zsD

Edited 12 hours ago12 hr by ATRguy

9 hours ago, ATRguy said:

The ATR is a dog IRL.

What's your general impression of the sim version? I haven't updated mine to 2024 yet. I generally liked in 2020 but I don't fly airliners that much.

29 minutes ago, ryanbatc said:

What's your general impression of the sim version? I haven't updated mine to 2024 yet. I generally liked in 2020 but I don't fly airliners that much.

I came to ask exactly this. Seems like you @ATRguy fly the real thing? What do you think about the sim version compared to the real one?

Disregard

Edited 9 hours ago9 hr by History

Its definitely a buggy mess, the only workaround I found at the moment is to fly the ATR 72 in ramp instead of notch. Talk about an Expert series...

15 hours ago, ATRguy said:

It’s not a fast airplane. Q400s have more power in one engine than the ATR has in both.

That's an astonishing revelation! Why does the ATR not have more powerful engines?

7 hours ago, ryanbatc said:

What's your general impression of the sim version? I haven't updated mine to 2024 yet. I generally liked in 2020 but I don't fly airliners that much.

I actually haven’t touched the 2024 version yet.

I fly 300/320/500s in real life, so there’s some avionics differences for sure, but from 2020 I remember it being pretty twitchy compared to real life. The systems weren’t terrible, and it had a few little niggles that it didn’t do IRL, but the IRL airplane does all sorts of word not allowed it probably doesn’t do when it’s new haha.

I’m still at work for another little bit, but I could give it a go later this month or in August when I have some time.

2 hours ago, Christopher Low said:

That's an astonishing revelation! Why does the ATR not have more powerful engines?

Beats me but I wish it did. The Q400 can over speed on one engine. We take bird strikes from behind in comparison.

The Q400 also doesn’t land on 2900 feet of dirt and gravel either, so everything is a trade.

12 hours ago, cowpatz said:

You jest..... surely?

That was the theory of one of the ATR pilots over at the MSFS forums. I haven't tried the 42, just the 72. The 72 is definitely severely underpowered, I mean you can just compare it with the MSFS 2020 version. The 2024 version can't even reach 200 kts during level flight at cruise.