ATRguy

No, I never do that IRL with a climb in IAS and our Boeing pilots definitely do not. The AP is good enough that it won’t bust an altitude unless you really set it up for failure. The only time I use VS to climb IRL is if we’re step climbing 1000 feet or so at cruise, I’ll VS +500 and then when the speed rolls back to our SOP climb speed I’ll swap to IAS.

As said above, no SOP will ever have you climbing in V/S mode. FLCH or VNAV as it provides protection and keeps the thrust levers at a consistent position. Descending in V/S works when you need it.

Looks and sounds really good! I'm surprised at how bad the VNAV is haha. I gotta check with some of my A220 buddies and see what they say IRL.

Oh yeah it’s fine. We have some pretty intense engine out scenarios up north here with terrain and the ATR does just fine.

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.

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.

What cruise speed are you expecting? This was my climb rate today, in a fully loaded 42. https://ibb.co/VWGt5zsD

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.

No, VNAV needs weights and routes and a cost index to generate a profile for both the climb and descent. If the FMS isn’t accepting data with the engines running, then you need to turn them off to enter it all.

Man I’m excited for these.

As a current Canadian pilot, there’s no reason to have them, so why waste the money on them? We use GPS everywhere. In 11 years of professional flying in Canada, I have never “tracked a radial outbound” or flown anything other than an ILS or RNAV approach. There’s still a bunch that work up north, and even then, questionable why.

Low 20s, you should be seeing almost 300 kts TAS in the 42, and probably 270-280 TAS in the 72. FL250 doesn't happen often, especially in a heavy 72, they're absolute dogs.

Yes the ATR has wild reflections at night and it’s SUPER annoying.

Are you using it right?

The Caravan is definitely boring and predictable to fly IRL haha. It’s built that way.

Yeah, they're super annoying IRL too, that's how it looks a lot of the time.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Area+51,+NV,+USA/@37.2352485,-115.8101854,3634m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x80b81baaba3e8c81:0x970427e38e6237ae!8m2!3d37.2430548!4d-115.7930198!16zL20vMHlqcQ?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDUwNi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D A good start, anyways. There's tons of photos of the base.

Then don’t buy it. Typical “no fun allowed” simmer here.

Right? Default weather over here and it works exactly the same as it did two weeks ago. Great skies coming out of Hong Kong the other day.

Use windows 11, nothing is designed for Windows 10 anymore.

Oh perfectly fair, yeah.

But airplanes can still almost always get out of them, especially small airplanes like the Kodiak. No way the elevator loses its authority in a stall.

Who says they’re ignoring it? Maybe they just can’t fix it yet.

As a guy who spends every six months in Level D sims, the weather in 2024 is miles better than how it looks in a real sim. First off there is no live weather in a real sim, so it’s all presets. Take that and go set a preset in 2024 of RVR 1200, 200 foot ceilings and rain or snow, and fly it. It’s way better than the real sim. Level D sims can’t even do rain, or wipers, or anything. People need to realize how incredibly GOOD we have it in a desktop sim, it’s the best it’s ever been.

Absolutely no stutters on my system with it, even flying into Haneda and Kai Tak.