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Aerosoft/McPhat Studios ATR-72-500 The Ultimate French Twin Prop In a continuation of our Saitek Pro Flight article, it‘s a good idea to practice with Saitek’s Pro Flight hardware along with a highly detailed X-Plane 10 (XP10) aircraft. A few other XP10 add-on aircraft have seen daylight before, and now it’s up to the French “Avions de Transport Régional“ ATR 72- 500. The XP10 ATR 72 package is available for the Windows and Mac platform and along with that, Mc- Phat Studios offers additional freeware HD (High Definition) livery packages. All together a good formula to start with! Right now there’s no need to go in-depth about how to install this aircraft, how to add additional liveries or how to configure it. For this, I suggest you download the Aerosoft ATR72-500 manual from the dedicated Aerosoft ATR web page. That said, it’s now time to see how to configure Saitek’s Yoke System or the X-52 Pro hardware and after that maybe we‘ll have space left for some tips and tricks. The modelled ATR 72-500 is an uncomplicated aircraft that uses the default XP10 FMS, but it comes with a simulated AFCS (Automatic Flight Control System) and EFIS (Electronic Flight Instrument System). EFIS consist of an EHSI (Electronic Horizontal Situation Indicator) and EADI (Electronic Attitude 30 SIMULATOR WORLD 2/2013 ATR-72-500 Direction Indicator), but there’s more. With certain aircraft systems simulated, it’s always fun to fly and test each of them. Configure Saitek Yoke System/Flight Stick If you haven’t done this before, at the first startup, XP10 will ask you to calibrate the connected hardware. Otherwise, you can start up XP10 immediately. Already configured or not, access to the XP10 menu is via the Setting - Joystick & Equipment, but there’s an important issue. I faced the following problem. XP10 can detect the PITCH and ROLL yoke/joystick movements, but not the YAW movement, so you need to assign this manually in the XP10 “Axis” tab. Don’t forget … XP10 can only recognise your Saitek hardware when you‘ve connected it to your PC or Mac before starting XP10. If you haven’t done so, shutdown XP10, connect your Saitek hardware and restart XP10. Many assignments can be made in XP10, but for the moment, let’s stick to assigning FLAPS, LAN- DING GEAR, TOGGLE BRAKES and ROT (rotary or HAT switch). The first three can be found in the XP10 menu “Settings - Joystick & Equipment – Buttons: Basic”, while the ROT is situated under Buttons: Adv.
ATR-72-500 When that‘s done, it’s time to test the ATR. More information about joystick assignments can be found in section 4.6 of the official XP10 User Manual. Once the XP10 ATR is active, it depends if the engines are running or not. It’s up to you of course, but it‘s more realistic to have this aircraft coming up without engines running. Therefore, go to Settings - Operations & Warnings section Startup. Suppose the engines were already running. An XP10 restart is needed. At the next restart, XP10 will show your ATR in a Cold & Dark situation. But how to get the ATR 72-500 alive? Check your ATR aircraft folder within the main folder “Aircraft - Heavy Metal” and look for the Acrobat file “Procedure_Manual”. Got that? Great, now it’s time to open and assign the “Rear Entry Door” and “Cargo Door” and after that, join me on my virtual walk-around inspection. The only problem is … how do I open or close these doors?Right now, closing the doors is not the problem since they are already closed, so the question is … how to open them? For this we need to assign either a keyboard command or joystick button. Via Settings – Joystick & Equipment, you go to tab “Buttons: Adv”. When you want to assign a joystick button to a door, you go to the tab “Key”, otherwise you go to tab Buttons: Adv. For both tabs “Buttons: Adv” or “Keys”, you choose from the list “Operation – slider_01” for, for example the cargo door. “Operation – slider_02” is then for the passenger door or vice versa. I used for slider_01 keyboard combination Shift+1 and slider_02 Shift+2. Any other keyboard command is allowed as long as it doesn’t conflict other keyboard assignments. I’m aware this is a very short explanation and therefore, how to assign and/or using Buttons: Adv or Keys, can be found in the official XP10 user manual sections 4.6.4 and 4.7 Now it’s time for my planned quick walk-around inspection. Starting at the fuselage nose section, I see a highly detailed gear, radome cone and nose fuselage section. With the cargo door opened, you’ve got a good view of what’s possible within XP10. The high definition textures are gorgeous and this is applicable for the whole model. The livery textures are sharp and have a nice gloss. SIMULATOR WORLD 2/2013 31
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