I do see my throttles animating with gust lock on, I have Bravo throttle quadrant. It does not move above the gust lock
I thought the whole idea of the gust lock was to mechanically stop the throttle levers being moved any more than taxi thrust.
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Correct, you canāt move power levers out of the ground mode (below flight idle position) with gust lock on.
Can someone confirm this is the current behavior?
If so Iāll write a bug report (if there isnāt one already).
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tried out the ATR, any idea whatās causing this issue just after takeoff? 2024
Maybe the ELEC synoptic page can provide more info. There is more weird stuff going on, I donāt know why fuel crossfeed is open. That is why both boost pumps keep running, probably unrelated to the electrical issue though.
Is Santa bringing an ATR update this year? Ho Ho Ho!
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Donāt Ho Ho Hold your breath.
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Hi found this thread doing a search on VNAV problems as VNAV in the B-787 has degraded with SU4. Will not capture G/S properly from VNAV. Any problems here?
The problem generally with the ATR is the TOD calculation. One must set their crusing altitude first and leave it until you reach the TOD marker (the magenta box appears), only then can you capture the VNAV path and reduce your altitude to FAF, then switch over to ILS+APP. Seems if you toy around with your selected altitude, or if you try to arm VNAV path then reduce your alt, you will lose the TOD marker and will have to use V/S to reach the correct FAF.
This is not completely inaccurate. On the real aircraft, should you set a lower altitude more then 5 minutes prior TOD, it will make the preselected altitude the new cruising altitude. Consequently the VNAV path will be below you.
What we used to do (real aircraft) is wait until within 5 min prior TOD (the magenta VDEV scale appearing on the PFD) or to move the TOD towards you within the 5 minutes by modifying the FMS descent path (shallower angle), then moving it back to 3.0 degrees or whatever you want to use. As soon as the TOD has been within 5 minutes, the FMS will lock into the descent mode and it will no longer mess with the cruising altitude.
What is completely inaccurate with the MSFS ATR is that LNAV and VNAV remains the active mode when changing nav source to V/ILS. The real aircraft wonāt allow you to capture the ILS directly from LNAV. As soon as you change nav source, LNAV is replaced by HDG HOLD and VNAV will be gone, accompanied by a triple click sound.
So either you change to HDG mode, change nav source to V/ILS, arm APR mode and capture the localizer with HDG, or you capture the final approach course with LNAV, then change nav source and arm APR mode.
Whatever you do, when changing navsource to V/ILS, LNAV and VNAV are gone and the autopilot will revert to basic modes (depending on bank angle, either ROLL HOLD, WINGS LVL then HDG HOLD or HDG HOLD directly), when VNAV PATH is the active mode it will revert to PITCH mode.
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Decided to give this a try, was able to get it up and running without issue, had a lot of fun doing pre flight, taxi and takeoff. Then after take off, couldnāt engage the autopilot, as Iāve seen others mention here and on other forums. Thereās no issue with the aircraft set up I can see, controls are neutral, FD and YD on. But as soon as I hit the AP button I get a disengage warning. FWIW I own pretty much every other airliner for MSFS and never have issues with my hardware preventing autopilot engagement.
I was using a custom livery, but if thatās a possible cause, Iāll fire this one back in the hangar for now until this supposed patch appears then try again.
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Need to buy ATR72-600 on MSFS2024
Tried the ATR again after a few months yesterday. Attempted a flight three times, and the sim crashed three times (twice still on the apron, once in the air when I even made it after TOC).
I never have CTD in other planes, so I believe the ATR is unusable in 2024ā¦
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Can it be that the ATR is not on sale at the moment in the 2024 store ?
Only if you have purchased it on 2020 probably. Itās not in the store in msfs 2024 here.
Iām a frequent user of the ATR in FS2024 and havenāt had any problems with it.
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I might be totally wrong but I have something in my head about it is withdrawn from the 24 store until it gets some overhaulingā¦but donāt take that for granted
As a user of the ATR in 2020, and strict follower of checklists, I can confirm that the ATR in 2024 does not behave properly when starting from cold & dark. It does have clear bugs that have not been addressed.
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In 2020 it was almost good (not the reverse)
In 2024 I found a lot of bug and totally irrealistic behaviour.
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when i click terrain on the mfd instead of wx, plane freezes nothing works and after i hit end flight, it gives a ctd
The ATR, like all other Microsoft-owned aircraft without a 2024-native release, has never been on sale in the MSFS 2024 Marketplace - with the exception of being included in the Aviator Edition upgrade. If purchased/owned via the MSFS (2020) Marketplace, that purchase does transfer to your MSFS 2024 My Library and the aircraft can be used. Like @JakTrax78 I too have flown the ATRs several times in 2024 without any issues aside from a few false-starts with WASM crashes that prevented startup. Once Iām in-flight, it has been great.
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