![]() I had survived my first flight and I was hooked. Not too bad for a first landing! Then I taxied over to see the Borra Borra custom airport scenery. Then, with just the runway and the beautiful water ahead I set the aircraft down with about 250-300 fpm on the meter. Not quite as draggy as I expected, it took a while to slow down but dropping the gear and flaps (at just above the recommended values) did the job. I do need to get a closer look with a future helicopter flight but for now the goal was to appreciate from my landing approach.ĭropping down to 2000 feet and then 1500 I set the ATR up for landing. Those tortoise waters, custom resort scenery, and custom mountain scenery look pretty impressive. Try and make it make sense… and if not… colour outside of the lines! That’s what I did here as I cut across my broken, not quite fully formed flight plan, and set myself up for landing.īorra Borra looks superb in Microsoft Flight Simulator with the world update. You’ll see in my next story below that I’ve gotten better.īottom line to others in my position? Just plug some stuff in. ![]() My previous efforts had all been aided by Simbrief or other flight planners and so this is really my first time trying to do it myself. The learning process has evolved already quite a bit since that happened and I now understand the MCDU quite a bit better in the ATR specifically and I’ve made small but tangible gains in my overall understanding. Not knowing as much as I do now, my flight planning input didn’t quite cover the whole route and so I had some confused routing later in the flight as you can see below. More on that when I get to some first impressions and then later on a full review. I also got a chance to view the ATR from the exterior and the interior. I explored the cockpit, some of the systems, and did what I do best – learning on the fly. Things went relatively smoothly during the middle part of the flight. Ignoring advanced features like VNAV, I simply used the VS mode to climb to the planned altitude of 20,000 feet. Fortunately, the system here seems to share more with the fancier GA types than it does with some of the other airliners. Putting the engines to full power I was quickly up and flying! Autopilot on and now it was time to see if I could manage the autopilot in the ATR. Using the one button push to start the airplane saves so much time and the goal was to get flying- and quickly!Īnd then I was off taxiing to the runway. Using the MSFS flight planner, I plugged in (awkwardly!) the flight plan and attempted to make a go of things with the little knowledge that I had already gathered. ![]() The Bora Bora Airport (NTTB) had been given the custom treatment in the new World Update XIII: Oceania so I wanted to fly in there and see what it was like. Also on the tarmac were other player flown ATR’s in the same few Tahiti Air liveries that have been included with the ATR. My departure point was Tahiti and the Tahiti Faa’A Airport (NTAA). The first of the ATRs that I would fly was the slightly longer ATR 72/600 with the Air Tahiti livery. With the ATR, the smaller size and off the beaten path routes lessened my anxiety with tackling these beasts and convinced me to just get in there and have fun. I’ve already done a couple of flights with the PMDG 737 but found the experience intimidating. I had a prior stint in the A320neo a couple of years back and I wanted to expand my knowledge and my range of experiences. ![]() I’ve been slowly getting into airliners in general over the course of 2023. There will be beautiful locales and some bumbling around in this airplane so … be prepared! Let’s fly! Tropical island hopping Tropical island hopping? Flying the only route that can take you between Canada and France on a turboprop? I’ve been having some fun with the Asobo/Microsoft ATR 42/600 and ATR 72/600 and I wanted to share both of the adventures I’ve been on so far in this latest flight journal.
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