You can’t beat this deal. You’re getting a large collection of ATR42 and 72 airplane and liveries. You should not expect perfection but the interior cockpit modeling is good, not great. Looks good enough so as to not hurt the experience. It’s mostly interactive with the buttons and such, but some do nothing and others cannot be moved or clicked. The essentials are all available and for me that’s what counts.
Each variant fly pretty much the same with perhaps some minor differences but overall they are enjoyable.
The exterior models are very nice.
All of the lights seem to be working and the night time cockpit might be a little too bright, but still pleasant.
The massive amount of real world liveries is a big plus.
Fantastic package and a very nice price.
Runs very well on my PCs base integrated Intel UHD graphics on medium high settings. No problems and was a quick and easy DL & install.
ATR Familie für den FSX / P3Dv1-3 und v4 für das Geld Okay.
Eine palette and Skins sind auch dabei und die verschiedenen varianten der ATR.
Wer sie mal in Action sehen will, kann das hier angucken. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-KasAwX4qE
My second review, and I've changed my mind. I wanted to be fair since I only gave it 3 stars last time.
The throttle and condition levers are definitely touchy, but once I learned how to carefully manipulate them, the plane worked fine. For this reason I think it deserves a 4/5 but I can't remove my old rating, so I'll give it a 5 this time (to help the average).
If you want to fly an ATR, and can't work around the issues of the Flight 1 ATR (no support and has CTD issues with FSX Steam), this is the one you want.
The outside views are very good, the added service door is a nice feature.
As stated earlier, throttle and condition levers. You really have to be careful.
I use a joystick, but the best way to have everything work is to use the function keys to set the condition levers rather than your mouse in the 2D or 3D panel.
The sounds are great.
The inside 3D panel view is average, hard to see the FMS, but you can change to a 2D view to look at the FMS. From what I can tell, it takes the existing FSX flight plan so I it acts sort of as an old fashioned "GPS" mode.
Localizer works fine, but the glideslope seems to hunt up and down.
After just a few flights, I'm beginning to like this plane more and more.
It never causes issues with FSX (no CTDs, etc) doesn't cause any framerate issues.
Communication is excellent. They personally answer emails, which is a nice thing.
Repainting is .. well, I don't understand it, but since it comes with a bunch of liveries, I don't know if that's an issue for most.
I'm just now hoping to find someone who can paint a Tarom livery.
The plane is ok, but I can't get my throttles to work consistently. There are times when the gust lock works, other times it doesn't, I seem my throttle wandering back and forth.
The website is not the best, but the communication is good.
Email response is excellent, so from that perspective, they get 5 stars.
I wanted a Tarom paint, got an email link to a file, downloaded it, and I have no idea what to do with hit. No directions.
I purchased this to replace my aging F1 ATR, but now I'm going back to that.
I hope this is just my experience, because I see others loved it.
Finally! I had the old ATRs from these guys and they were very subpar, at first I thought this was the same exact product but then I saw some screenshots i thought were mislabeled. I thought they were the flight 1 ATR but no they are shots of this new revamped ATR from Virtualcol. The model is much improved (the prop cones aren't detached from the model), the textures are much improved (they look really realistic now and are super high res), the VC actually looks 50% better (the VC used to be super low res on the bezels and panels, but now you can actually see detail in the screw heads and the autopilot panel has 3-d buttons), the flight dynamics are improved (no, more cruising at 40000 feet or, climbing at a ridiculous speed fully loaded. even the ground handling is improved). The lighting is improved (nice looking and much more realistic), the sound is improved (no more panning washing machine sound when turning). Nice cockpit sounds, callouts etc, the cargo doors open that is a nice touch. The 600s look a lot more realistic systems wise. There are still a few issues. 1. the FMS panel gets washed out when the sun is from behind (it looks really silly) The over head panels is better but not great. The 320 models are missing the ovehead panel entirely. If Virtual col can go back and revisit their E-175-195 I might buy that too. Really this is a huge improvement over the last one.
i got this aircraft and i must say i love this type of aircraft and virtualcol u have done this aircraft very well and evey detail is just fab thanks virtualcol :)
One of my all-time classic favorite aircraft, this simulation is for those who from time to time don't like to read hundreds of pages to get the plane airborne, even though is recommended to carefully read the enclosed manual, which is very concise and relatively simple and easy to follow. There are a lot of repaints and exterior models are superb. VC internal models are good enough to my taste (all types) and very functional. Systems work very well. Very happy with the product. Congrats to the guys at VirtualCol team for this excellent work.