Aerospatiale and Aeritalia (now Alenia) established Avions de Transport Regional as a Groupement d'Intéret Economique under French law to develop a family of regional airliners. The ATR-42 was the consortium's first aircraft and was launched in October 1981. In 1986 a stretched version was launched under the ATR-72 type.

With the high wings, and the rather special sharkfin like propellors they are a familiar sight on most airports these days and form the mainstay of many regional routes all over the world. Strong and versatile, they will be around for a long time.

The model from Aerosoft is fully updated to FS2004 and contains all the main panels, animations and even includes a complete push back module. With additional modules like a configurator that makes it possible to configurate the aircraft (up to the accent of the pilots). A load editor loads you aircraft with passengers and weight. There is even a flight plan module that let's you select flight from the Eurowings flight schedule.

For an aircraft in this price range it is surprising that a fully functional FMC is included (we choose the best one around, the one of Flight One) that will push your flight to superb realism. Please note that we did not include a Virtual Cockpit in this model because the layout of the small cockpit makes it very hard to use the panels in VC mode.

Click here to see a 3.2 Mb video of the aircraft.