Revisiting the updated ATR 72 600 with a quick flight in Microsoft Flight Simulator 

I flew on one of these in real life yesterday (from Naxos to Athens) absolutely loved it! Got home from holiday today and immediately downloaded it. The deceleration is realistic. I was thrown forward in my seat when we landed at LGAV

Liked watching. I have a couple of friends who fly AT76 for Air New Zealand. They've told me normal climb speed is 170kts. It's an ATR figure not the airlines. Probes are turned on early in cockpit prep. Also when Hotel mode is used the Wing lights are switched on to warn ground crew. 19:43

Impressive landing!

In my opinion they are doing a great job on this plane. Especially for the price you can get it.

I just did my first flight in the updated ATR. It is way better and the RNAV works flawlessly. Great update!

Apart from being very informative, yout vids are a pleasure to watch. Your commentry is like having a buddy inthe room. Thanks

I'm looking forward to see this plane working correctly. Already found two different ways to block the plane (making it non responsive), just by entering manually flights on the FMS.

I'm updating my ATR now. In the meantime I'll watch this so I'll know what to expect😁

I like the plane & nice job on a difficult approach. Slainte 😉👍

thanks for the update and video...

Excellent Jon ! Just upgraded mine and about to check what’s new and improved

Impossible landing! Great video, thanks!

I can't believe how well you landed the ATR on that runway. Very fun to watch. I'm still not sure how the VNAV works when coming down from cruise to approach altitudes.

One thing I don’t understand is how you were able to start engine 1 without the fuel pump, and how it was running without it on. You can see at around 15:10 the display shows no fuel flow to engine 1 but it was running?

One of the few changes I saw was on the MCDU that when you finished PERF INIT, it didn't make you back up to the top menu before going to FPLAN INIT.

even my aircraft started moving forward after releasing breaks, i had to push back on feather and then move it to auto

ahhh Captain Beckett in the ATR hmmmm another Spot on Video Thank You

Did you know the Asobo ATR has a synthetic vision system? Also during your start of engine 1 you turned off the boost pump and never turned it back on.

I revisited the ATR after not touching it much after my initial flights from release. I do quite like it now after not thinking much of it at the time. I did encounter a weird issue where a prop animation wasn't working but to the best of my knowledge everything appeared to be working correctly and performance was as expected. Other flights I haven't encounter this issue so guess a bug of somekind maybe.

Would love to see you fly Qantaslinks milk run route in the ATR. Usually flown with DHC-8. YBBN (Brisbane) / YBRK (Rockhampton) / YBMK (Mackay) / YBTL (Townsville) / YBCS (Cairns) or vice versa.

In the efb performance page you can set the trim there based on weights etc

The ATR may not be the most powerful plane but that girl decel better than any plane I’ve seen

Massive props (see what I did there?) for getting the ATR into U60. I found it hard enough landing a C172 there. The beta is insane. I wonder if it's realistic.

I understand why people like to input the flight plan, but in all honesty and as in real life just getting the flight plan from ACARS is so much safer and is becoming the standard now. In the case of the ATR you can now Import from simbrief and they have updated the simbrief downloader to work with the ATR so no need to mess around with the flight plan trying to use the Aerosoft CRJ version. I know not everyone has simbrief but honestly it is one of the best investments you can make if you want to fly these "Expert planes" The ATR FMS and the NAVDATA itself is still buggy, and thats why in the video there was a missing waypoint, with a simbrief sub this wont happen as the simbrief NavData overrides the NavBlu data as far as I know and it all just works, the way it should.

nice one Jon

Funny to see that you turned of the left fuel pump en did a takeoff and kept flying with that turned off

5:56 There's a bug in the ATR's MCDU where you get a "format error" when trying to enter any airport with a number in it's code.

That was like me.. no charts, no Simbrief, no Navigraph, no ATC.. just improvise when you get to the airport based on what you see. lol

Good morning Jonathon, thanks for this updated flight. Could I ask where you got the aircraft profile for little nave map I can't seem to find a reliable ! Many thanks

Excellent explanation of everything, I ask you HOW to slow down the taxi since at least it comes out like a runaway horse !!! it exceeds the 10 or 15 KNOTS allowed to roll... I think that was not corrected in the update...

I know you use the TCA throttle quadrant as you showed how to calibrate it in one of your other videos. However, have you experienced the problem everyone is complaining about since the update? The throttles no longer work. They are fine in start-up and taxi but as soon as you take off and pull the throttles back to notch you no longer have any control. Any physical throttle movement results in no simulator movement or throttle control nor do keyboard throttle commands (F1-F4) work. The plane is no longer controllable.

Is the plane able to accept flight plans made from the MSFS World Map like default planes or is it still manual input only??

Is there as reason the 2-4 screens at startup show big green "T". Just curious, seems odd- like there must be a reason

Jon..check out BGGH...Nuuk International Airport...fun area..in all kinds of weather. Serviced by alot of DASH 7's and 8's. You will enjoy it.

There’s a bug in the sim where all controller inputs stop working when using the mouse middle click to look around. That’s why your toe brakes stopped working at the start.

There seems to be a bug where you push the Generator #1 ON and it shows OFF. :)

tried it yesterday the IAS speed bugged for some reason during the climb phase and was stuck. Has anyone had the same problem?

"and breathe". LOL

small note, asobo has nothing to do with this plane, it's microsoft who have contracted Hans Hartmann (like they contracted Asobo for the sim). Still a lot of things broken so it stays in the hangar for me unfortunately.

I see some bugs on loc alignment after the last update

Sadly, this aircraft remains an absolute mess! There is a major bug which prevents the aircraft engines from starting when using cold and dark. I have spent hours trying to work out what is going on. Sometimes I cannot get Hotel Mode working. All apears fine until I disconnect external power and the aicraft reverts to battery power only. Other times I manage to get engine 2 started but engine 1 will not start. Sometimes I cannot get either engine to start. The different options (cold and dark, hotel mode, etc) are a waste of time. When neither engine started this evening, I pressed ready for taxi. Even though external power was stiull connected the outboard displays shut down and neither engine would start. My fear is that the developer who released this beta-version of the aircraft also developed the CRJ.... which, more than 12 months on, is still full of bugs and problems. It seems as though he develops something really good.... upto a point.... gets bored and then abandons it. My fear is that he will do the same with the ATR.... VERY DISAPPOINTING

So the fuel pump is just for show (for now)?

What camera are you using to move about the cockpit?

So VOR doesn't work lol

Can't even switch master battery on in Series X in cold dark start! Oh dear?????

crazy how the number one engine started when you turned the pump off

This is so painful to watch.