# ATR 72-200 — MAX_Atr72_Check

> **NOT FOR FLIGHT** — source fidelity: unreviewed | operational review: none | completeness: full

## Pre-Start Checklist

- [ ] Parking Brakes — **SET**
- [ ] Battery Switch — **OFF**
- [ ] Generator Switches — **OFF**
- [ ] Power Management Switch — **CHECK SET TO (take off)**
- [ ] Automatic Torque Switches — **CHECK OFF !!!**
- [ ] Throttle — **IDLE**
- [ ] Landing Gear Lever — **CHECK DOWN**
- [ ] Propeller — **HIGH RPM**
- [ ] Fuel Cond. Lever — **FUEL CUTOFF**
- [ ] Idle Gate Lever — **GROUND IDLE**
- [ ] Flaps — **UP**
- [ ] Battery Switch — **ON**
- [ ] Panel Lights — **ON if required**
- [ ] Fuel Quantity — **CHECK**
- [ ] Flight controls — **CHECK**
- [ ] Avionics Master Switch — **ON**
- [ ] Check Weather — **(ATIS, Flight Services)**
- [ ] Anti-ice — **TEST/CHECK**
- [ ] Request Clearance
- [ ] Transponder — **STANDBY**
- [ ] Beacon — **ON**

## Startup Checklist

- [ ] Engine and Propeller Area Throttle — **CLEAR**
- [ ] Throttle — **IDLE**
- [ ] Fuel Valves — **OPEN**
- [ ] Fuel Cond. Lever — **AUTO**
- [ ] Idle Gate Lever — **FLIGHT IDLE**
- [ ] Prop Brake — **OFF**
- [ ] Engine Start Selection Switch — **CRANK few seconds**
- [ ] Engine Start Selection Switch — **START A+B**
- [ ] Start Button Engine 2 — **START (hold until engine starts)**
- [ ] Generator 2 — **ON**
- [ ] Start Button Engine 1 — **START (hold until engine starts)**
- [ ] Generator 1 — **ON**
- [ ] Loadmeter+Voltmeter — **CHECK for CHARGE**
- [ ] Engine Start Selection Switch — **OFF**

## Before Taxi Checklist

- [ ] Nav Lights — **ON**
- [ ] Taxi Lights / Logo Lights / Wing Lights — **ON**
- [ ] Heading Indicator / Altimeter — **SET**
- [ ] Instruments — **NORMAL OPERATION**
- [ ] Radios and Avionics — **ON, CHECKED and SET**
- [ ] Autopilot — **SET and OFF**
- [ ] F/D — **ON**
- [ ] Request Taxi Clearance

## Taxi Checklist

- [ ] Parking Brake — **RELEASE**
- [ ] Brakes — **CHECK during taxi**
- [ ] Directional Gyro — **PROPER IND. during turns**
- [ ] Turn Coordinator — **PROPER IND. during turns**
- [ ] Artificial Horizon — **ERECT during turns**
- [ ] Taxi to assigned runway — **SPEED Max. 20 knots**

## Before Take-off Checklist

- [ ] Parking Brake — **SET**
- [ ] Fuel Quantity — **CHECK**
- [ ] Throttle — **IDLE**
- [ ] Elevator Trim — **SET for takeoff**
- [ ] Flaps — **15 deg**
- [ ] Flight Controls — **FREE AND CORRECT**
- [ ] Engine / Flight Instruments — **CHECK**
- [ ] Radios and Avionics — **SET**
- [ ] Landing Lights — **ON**
- [ ] Taxi Lights — **OFF**
- [ ] Strobe Light — **ON**
- [ ] Pitot Heat — **ON**
- [ ] Anti-Ice — **AS REQUIRED**
- [ ] Power Management Switch — **SET TO (take off)**
- [ ] Annunciator Lights — **CHECK**
- [ ] Transponder — **ON**
- [ ] Request Takeoff Clearance

## Take-off Checklist

- [ ] Automatic Torque Switches — **BOTH ON**
- [ ] Brakes — **RELEASE**
- [ ] V1 = Vr = — **110 KIAS**
- [ ] Pitch — **10 degrees**
- [ ] V2 = — **115 KIAS**
- [ ] At Positive Climb Rate — **Touch Brakes**
- [ ] Landing Gear — **RETRACT**
- [ ] Power Management Switch — **SET CLB (climb)**
- [ ] At 130 KIAS — **RETRACT FLAPS**
- [ ] Annunciator Lights / Eng. Instruments — **CHECK**

## Climb-out Checklist

- [ ] Power Management Switch — **CHECK CLB**
- [ ] Autopilot — **CHECK and SET**
- [ ] Yaw Damper — **ON**
- [ ] Landing Lights — **OFF**
- [ ] Airspeed — **190 KIAS / 1800 fpm / 89%**
- [ ] above 12’000 ft — **180 KIAS / 1500 fpm / 77%**
- [ ] Engine Instruments — **MONITOR**
- [ ] ATC — **AS REQUIRED**
- [ ] At Transition Altitude (FL180) set Altimeter to 29,92" (1013mb)

## Cruise Checklist

- [ ] Accelerate to cruise speed
- [ ] Power Management Switch — **SET CRZ (cruise)**
- [ ] at 6’000 ft — **245 KIAS / 78%**
- [ ] at 9’000 ft — **240 KIAS / 76%**
- [ ] at 12’000 ft — **235 KIAS / 73%**
- [ ] at 18’000 ft — **220 KIAS / 68%**
- [ ] at 24’000 ft — **205 KIAS / 63%**
- [ ] Service Ceiling — **25’000 ft**
- [ ] Engine+Instruments — **CHECK**
- [ ] Fuel Quantity — **CHECK**
- [ ] Radios — **TUNED and SET**
- [ ] Autopilot — **CHECK and SET**

## Descent Checklist

- [ ] Atis / Airport Information — **CHECK**
- [ ] Altimeter — **CHECK**
- [ ] Radios — **SET**
- [ ] Automatic Torque Switches — **OFF !!!**
- [ ] Descent Speed — **200 - 240 KIAS / ~15%**
- [ ] Descent Rate — **-1500 fpm**
- [ ] Flaps / Landing Gear — **CHECK UP**
- [ ] At Transition Altitude (FL180) reset Altimeter to local
- [ ] Check Weather — **(ATIS, Flight Services)**

## Approach Checklist

**Localizer Level Flight :**
- [ ] Speed: Establish — **160 KIAS / 28%**
- [ ] Landing Lights — **ON**
- [ ] Flaps — **15 deg**
- [ ] Speed: Establish — **145 KIAS / 41%**
- [ ] Turning towards runway set flaps — **30 deg**
- [ ] Speed: Establish — **130 KIAS / 44%**
- [ ] Landing Gear — **DOWN**
**Final Glideslope Descent :**
- [ ] Speed: Establish — **120 KIAS / 28%**
- [ ] Descent Rate — **-600 fpm**
- [ ] Elevator Trim — **AS DESIRED**
- [ ] Parking Brake — **VERIFY OFF**
- [ ] Anti-Ice — **AS REQUIRED**
- [ ] Yaw Damper — **OFF**

## Landing Checklist

- [ ] Landing Gear — **CHECK DOWN, 3 GREEN**
- [ ] Autopilot — **OFF**
- [ ] Landing Speed — **115 KIAS**
- [ ] Touchdown — **MAIN WHEELS FIRST**
- [ ] Landing Roll — **LOWER NOSE WHEEL**
- [ ] After touchdown — **Apply Reverse Thrust, at 60 kts: Cancel Reverse Thrust**

## Taxi To Ramp

- [ ] Strobe Light — **OFF**
- [ ] Taxi Lights — **ON**
- [ ] Landing Lights — **OFF**
- [ ] Flaps — **RETRACT**
- [ ] Anti-Ice — **OFF**
- [ ] Transponder — **1200**
- [ ] Speed — **Max. 20 knots**
- [ ] Elevator Trim — **TAKEOFF SETTING**
- [ ] Avionics/Radios — **AS REQUIRED**

## Shutdown Checklist

- [ ] Parking Brake — **SET**
- [ ] Throttle — **IDLE**
- [ ] Pitot Heat — **OFF**
- [ ] F/D — **OFF**
- [ ] Avionics — **OFF**
- [ ] Taxi Lights — **OFF**
- [ ] Logo Lights / Wing Lights — **OFF**
- [ ] Nav Lights — **OFF**
- [ ] Fuel Cond. Lever — **FUEL CUTOFF**
- [ ] Idle Gate Lever — **GROUND IDLE**
- [ ] Fuel Valves — **CLOSE**
- [ ] Power Management Switch — **SET TO (take off)**
- [ ] Beacon — **OFF**
- [ ] Generators — **OFF**
- [ ] Prop Brake — **ON**
- [ ] Panel Light — **OFF**
- [ ] Battery Switch — **OFF**

## Securing Aircraft

- [ ] Parking Brake — **Verify SET**
- [ ] Throttle — **Verify IDLE**
- [ ] All Switches — **Verify OFF**

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NOT FOR FLIGHT — source fidelity: unreviewed | operational review: none | completeness: full  
Source: ATR/72-200/MAX_Atr72_Check.txt  
Rights: licensed  
Checklist hash: 0c7e6af3aec327e6ecb71da32614f02ad850c0359b5a5c2bc6e7b40f75880140  
Verify against the aircraft's own approved documentation before use.