Many thanks to VillaJota for verifying the major improvement Climb and Cruise parameters on the ATR72. I had given up on this a/c.
I think there may be some improvement with the ATR42’s power/lift design also.
With the ATR72 I was able to almost exactly match VillaJota’s Climb strength numbers with both a/c. The only difference was that my ATR72 Cruised at 210ias rather than 198ias at FL170. With that I got a higher FF, around 300kg/h per engine.
My Notch setting might be a little different than his.
Too bad they took so long on this but I am VERY happy to be back in the cockpit!
pete in San Leandro, CA