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I seen that ATR 42-300

ATR 72-500

Uploaded by user Sander, thought it looked fairly good from the shots in the "Most Popular Download" section.

Well, I downloaded it since it "Claimed" (Cough),, it was for FSX as well.

went thru the effort of Injecting it into my Sim FSX Gold Acceleration, along with the other 4,927 Aircraft I have in my Sim.

What A Surprise, (Shock more like it) !!!

OK, whats the Gig here

little early for Aprils fools , ain't it

Where do I begin ??

Well lets start with the Aircraft CFG File, little bit messed up and outta whack, but I straightened that out and got it Re-Organized.

On to the Aircraft

in "FSX" as this is "Supposedly" will work in FSX , as claimed - 1st thing is the Cockpit starring the pilot with this "Bright Shiny Mirror", on the Panel
(See Photos).

Then the "SWITCHES" built into the backs of the Pilots Seat & Co-Pilot Seat, matter of FACT, the Seat Backs, even have Switches in the backs of the Seats , Pilots will have to have very Rubbery Stretchy rubber band type arms to operate those Switch thingy Ma Jobbers ( See Photos) !

While also being careful NOT to sit on the Switches, built into the Pilot & Co-Pilot seats

This apparently, is a New Stand Up and Fly Aircraft

1 Model has a Passenger VC, while the other Model does Not

Both models come complete with See Thru Props, the ol' saying, Less is more

and some Weird device on the front nose of the Aircrafts, pretty sure its NOT an "I-Phone", but I may be wrong ??

*** But what really, Really got my "Attention" besides all the other problem stuff , was how this Aircraft has managed to get like "13,895 downloads" , since November 2013 !!

I must of missed something somewhere

I Dunno, but I'm really surprised after 13,000 sum odd downloads that somebody hasn't said something about it by now !

Quite a hefty amount of Downloads for something that's truly not for FSX, and appears more likely to be a 'Port-Over" "from 2002 , real Early 2004", and was "piece mealed together", in such a way, well, take a gander at the photo's and you'll see.

and this was titled for FSX/2004

Well, guess Schupe, and Tiedman, Ruth and Kristensen, we'd better have a Meeting,,, cause' their doing something definetly Wrong, their Aircraft work !!

Ohhh well, another one Bites the Dust !


Photos of the ATR 42-300 / ATR 72-500 ya, for FSX ( cough, cough)

LINK : http://simviation.com/1/browse-Props-62-3?mark=45295#45295 6th one down from the Top - or just look in the Popular Downloads section on the front page of the site, be easier !

Thanks Jetranger for taking up this issue. I miss a kind of rating system. My experience is, that often people put together a package of an already known freeware aircraft and upload it. When I looked at it, the files were not improved nor altered in any way, though there was enough to improve. So I don't know, who I can trust to be able to fix things and beeing worth the time to download and install. There's a lot of download traffic, which would never be done, if it was possible to add a comment to a file or a rating. Comments usually are a bit delicate, because they can start a big argument. But if I'd see a several users gave a file a one star rating out of 6, I wouldn't consider to download a file.
I must admit, since I use more commercial addons, most freeware can't convince me anymore. There are only a few exceptions. I made aircraft for FS4 to FS98, when it was easy to create a perfect aircraft. Today, as a single person, it is almost impossible to compete with commercial addons, because there are teams creating new content for FSX. The more important it is, to have a rating system. I used to download a lot of stuff from Armaholic.com. They have a comment system on the files, which is very helpful.

I didn't know the aircraft had this problem --- the 'mirror' in the VC is usually because it is FSX but niot FSX Acceleration compatible.

However I've de-listed the aircraft.

I try to check 'em all if they've been uploaded by ann unknown contributor but this one escaped me.


As for the high download numbers -- we have many 1000's users per day do it's not at all unusual to get 1000+ downloads in one day and more than 5k in a month, etc. However 5000 in the past 7 days is definitely wrong for this type of aircraft and indicates multiple clicking. I always de-list aircraft where this has happened.


Thanks for the feedback

(the reason we don't have a rating system is because MANY designers would have given up at the start if they were 'rated' That also includes designers who sadly moved on to payware only releases). My attitude has always been 'Start designing and contributing yourself - then see if you think it's a good idea to rate freely created addons'. )

pete wrote:...

(the reason we don't have a rating system is because MANY designers would have given up at the start if they were 'rated' That also includes designers who sadly moved on to payware only releases). My attitude has always been 'Start designing and contributing yourself - then see if you think it's a good idea to rate freely created addons'. )

As I said, I used to create and design content. Still today I'm contributing scenery enhancements, boat traffic etc. Just little things, because the commercial sector has become too strong. When I started with FS4 aircraft, there was no commercial addons market like today, where you can buy an aircraft with a few clicks. I don't mind to get rated. You can also see it as a chance to improve the quality.

Dan

Great to hear of your contributions Dan but ... A lot of freeware designers have thrown the towel in after complaints . It kills me to see this -- but I can think immediately of 3 who did just that.

Anyway -- THIS case was simply something I should have checked out prior to approval -- I usually only approve 7 out of 10 uploads due to problems with the files ... sometimes they slip by ....

& as for the 5k downloads of that file in a week --- that's something I must work on to prevent it happening. That's just multiple clicking to raise the download numbers ......