Hello Everyone,

 

I'm currently on day 8 of 10 day trial. For the most part I have only 3 issues. The one issue I noticed yesterday, due to ATC asking me to expedite my climb to a certain flight level which my Altitude tape showed I was already at the correct FL, in this case FL220. AP was also set for FL220 and EFIS was set to Standard. Glancing at the altimeter in the P2A window it still showed 29.92 and the altitude showing was FL21.565 which was 565 feet below what my PFD tape was showing. Not sure why this happened.

Today the Barometric pressure from ATIS was 29.65 so on my EFIS I set 29.65, however the pressure setting in P2A did not change so I had to click on it to open the number menu, typed in 21.65 and then entered it. P2A then showed the correct pressure. During my preflight the pressure changed again, and again it did not change in the P2A screen after I made the change on my EFIS so I to entered it manually.

Is it normal to have to input the pressure setting into P2A each time it changes? Shouldn't it see the pressure setting on my EFIS and change automatically in P2A just like the radio frequencies do?

I'm using MFFS2020. I am using NOAA weather in P2A and I believe in Sim as well. I import my plans using Simbrief. I'm also running P2A on a client.

Thanks for any help offered. I think it's probably a setting I have missed.

 

Ed B.

Thanks for trying P2A.

It could be something with the aircraft you're flying. I just tried with the MSFS Baron and P2A displayed the Altimeter setting correctly as it changed in the aircraft.  Some aircraft don't play well with external programs.

Some aircraft also allow you to view several different types of altitude.  It's possible that your aircraft is set to display actual altitude instead of pressure altitude.  If all else fails, you can increase the allowed altitude deviation in Config settings so that you don't get nagged for being off altitude, but most likely, it's the setting of the type of altitude displayed in the aircraft.

Dave

Thanks for the quick reply Dave. I'm flying the Prosim 738. It's good to see there is an easy solution. If I don't find another solution, adjusting the deviation in the config should work just fine.

 

Kind Regards,

Ed

PS: I wish the trial was a little longer. I still haven't solved the PTT and Sayit keysends, but I am working on a solution for that in John Dowson's FSUIPC7 forum so I'm not looking for a response here.