TCA Aircraft Testing Department.

Jet/ turboprop/ large prop aircraft test report: (v3.1)

Date of Report:	February 12, 2001
Tested by:	Philip M. Wafer
		TCA#2302
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SECTION A: N/A

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SECTION B: (aircraft file details.)

	a) Aircraft name:		TCA ATR42-500 Calypso
	b) Aircraft registration:	
	c) Aircraft filename:		TCA ATR42-500.ZIP
	d) Aircraft *.AIR file date:	atr42ado.air January 6, 2001 22:13
	e) Aircraft *.MDL file date:	atr42ado.mdl November 25, 2000 11:35

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SECTION C: (Criteria Tested)


***			TAKE OFF PARAMETERS

1)	Take-off distance:	550m

2)	Rotation speed (Vr): 	(max fuel) KIAS.
		a) Educated guess:	100 kIAS
		b) Calculated: 		 95 kIAS

4)	Climb:
	to 10000 feet:		88% torque/170 kIAS/2500fpm
	10 - 20000 feet:	88% torque/170 kIAS/1800fpm 
		


***			CRUISE PARAMETERS	

5)	Endurance (range): 	680nm prop lever full forward.
				725nm prop lever 75% back.

6)	Overspeed clacker:

7)	Speed @ 80% N1, 210kIAS/FL200

8)	% N1 at recommended economic cruise speed:	80%


***			LANDING PARAMETERS

9)	Descent:	1500fpm


10)	Approach speed 30% fuel (KIAS):	100kIAS


11)	Landing speed (KIAS):
		a)  30% fuel:	87kIAS
		b)  15% fuel: 

12)	Landing distance: 	450m


***			HANDLING PARAMETERS		


13)	Behavior under AP: (OK or not)!
	a) Speed AP.		ok	
	b) Altitude AP.		ok
	c) Heading AP.		ok
	d) NAV1 AP.		ok
	e) Back course AP.	ok
	f) Approach AP.		ok
	g) Autoland.		n/a


14)	Stall speed: (KIAS)
	a) 100% fuel - 	85 kIAS clean, 72 kIAS dirty.
	b)  30% fuel - 	80 kIAS clean, 67 kIAS dirty.


15)	Turns AP ON - (OK or not?)
	a) Level turns		ok
	b) Climbing turns.	ok
	c) Descending turns.	ok

16)	Turns AP OFF - (OK or not?)
	a) Level turns		ok
	b) Climbing turns.	ok
	c) Descending turns.	ok

17)	Fuel burn:
	a) Take-off & climb out to FL200: 10 minutes/ 34nm/ 68 gallons.	
	b) Cruise :	80% N1/FL200/210 kIAS 350 gallons per hour (prop lever full forward)
			80%N1/FL200/205 kIAS/315 gallons per hour (prop lever 75% back)
	c) Descent :	180 kIAS/1500fpm/50nm/15 minutes/18 gallons.		


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SECTION D: 	NOTES/COMMENTS:

*)	Hardware = PIII 450/128Mb RAM/ GEForce 256 DDR.

*)	FS screen resolution used = 1280 x 1024 x 16bit.

*)	This aircraft was tested in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000 Pro.

*)	I used David Durst ATR panel v 5.0 during test.

*)	Very hi-tech model/textures.

*)	Landing lights comes on with gear down.

*)	Uses Concorde sound as default.

*)	Very easy to fly.

*)	Vr is a bit low. It should be 109 knots.

*)	Landing speed is also a bit low.

*)	The takeoff & landing runs are about half what they should be!

*)	Fuel usage is a bit high, giving shorter range than the real a/c.

*)	Registration needs to be corrected. It reads "I-IADG", but has the
	Netherlands Antilles flag. Also the TCA logo on the front port side
	needs cleaning up. Update textures???