Hi... So, since 12.4 Beta went live, I noticed the altimeter now adjusts itself and prevents you from adjusting it. This is happening on multiple aircraft, but most recently Zibo 737. It no longer allows you to set QNH when given clearance to descend past transition altitude by ATC. Granted, it then adjusts itself to the correct one, but not always! Last flight in Zibo, the left seat one adjusted itself but the right side one kept insisting some pressure entirely different and wouldn't let me change it. What's the deal here? Has anyone else noticed this and is there a way around it? I liked it as it was, giving me control of QNH settings any time. 

2 hours ago, BostonJeremy77 said:

Hi... So, since 12.4 Beta went live, I noticed the altimeter now adjusts itself and prevents you from adjusting it. This is happening on multiple aircraft, but most recently Zibo 737. It no longer allows you to set QNH when given clearance to descend past transition altitude by ATC. Granted, it then adjusts itself to the correct one, but not always! Last flight in Zibo, the left seat one adjusted itself but the right side one kept insisting some pressure entirely different and wouldn't let me change it. What's the deal here? Has anyone else noticed this and is there a way around it? I liked it as it was, giving me control of QNH settings any time. 

You have the auto comms thingy enabled. Will set altimeters as well now. If you dont want it turn the feature off

18 minutes ago, mjrhealth said:

You have the auto comms thingy enabled. Will set altimeters as well now. If you dont want it turn the feature off

Ah. That makes sense. I will turn that off. Didn't know auto comms also makes altimeters behave that way. Thank you!

12 minutes ago, BostonJeremy77 said:

Ah. That makes sense. I will turn that off. Didn't know auto comms also makes altimeters behave that way. Thank you!

Its new got changed, auto handover does it since it need to keep track of QNH

But why would ATC communication need to control altimeters? They could just hand it over and that's it. 

1 hour ago, BostonJeremy77 said:

But why would ATC communication need to control altimeters? They could just hand it over and that's it. 

Ask these users who love planes fly themselves while they sleep. 

I get the idea that in the Toliss 32N I can still set the altimeter even having auto comms (???)

Will have to check again !  Thx @mjrhealth for the hint 👍

If that's the case, I welcome auto setting of the altimeter when a given option is tickled, but maybe that additional option should get into the settings  of the comms interface (?) so that users could opt for it independently of having freqs and some interactions with the ATC agents being run automatically.

In the future if LR can add additional auto options, so that a virtual copilot can be simulated by default in X-Plane, that would be great!

 

Edited January 28Jan 28 by jcomm

7 hours ago, jcomm said:

I get the idea that in the Toliss 32N I can still set the altimeter even having auto comms (???)

Will have to check again !  Thx @mjrhealth for the hint 👍

If that's the case, I welcome auto setting of the altimeter when a given option is tickled, but maybe that additional option should get into the settings  of the comms interface (?) so that users could opt for it independently of having freqs and some interactions with the ATC agents being run automatically.

In the future if LR can add additional auto options, so that a virtual copilot can be simulated by default in X-Plane, that would be great!

 

Yeah, I can see that being one more option, as it's something I'd love to opt out of, but keep my virtual FO in control of comms responses for the duration of approach when the task saturation becomes high. It's a pretty realistic thing and I get what they were trying to do, but leave my altimeter alone. 🙂 Especially on Zibo where the right side altimeter gets onto a completely wrong setting and now there is ALT DISAGREE warning. And no, I can't fix that because by now even though I am below transition alt, I can only manipulate the left one and the backup one, but not the right one - that one is stuck at some number that has nothing to do with the current pressure. 🙂

Edited January 28Jan 28 by BostonJeremy77

"Auto hand-over" simply assumes that your co-pilot/first officer/pilot not flying handles comms and altimeter. I think it's a great feature as I find manual altimeter adjustment rather annoying, especially in turbulence or when in VR.

 

2 hours ago, BostonJeremy77 said:

Especially on Zibo where the right side altimeter gets onto a completely wrong setting and now there is ALT DISAGREE warning. And no, I can't fix that because by now even though I am below transition alt, I can only manipulate the left one and the backup one, but not the right one - that one is stuck at some number that has nothing to do with the current pressure. 🙂

As you know by having dug through the tablet options during familiarization, Zibo's 737 has a synchronization option for all three altimeters.

I mostly fly airliners well above TA/TL, so the auto QNH setting, at least in my side is not needed, and FO side is for most of the time synced to CAPT side anyway...

And sometimes it just doesn't do the trick, I have few times came down below TL, transfer out from STD mode and it stuck in 1013 still (pre-set at airport QNH before descend).

So normally I left it off before cross over TA, and turn if off after staring descend, although sometimes I'll forget to switch as it's quite some step to get it change.

But I can see if fly VFR or low IFR it might be useful for AFK condition. so a different setting would be welcome.

On 1/28/2026 at 1:51 AM, mjrhealth said:

You have the auto comms thingy enabled. Will set altimeters as well now. If you dont want it turn the feature off

wheres the setting to turn it off ?

3 hours ago, fluffyflops said:

wheres the setting to turn it off ?

Is all in the ATC radio settings, Auto tune and Auto checkin, never use it so had to look

Yep! Last night I pushed the beta into my windowze machine and there it was, that effect described in the OP !

Well, the only thing I don't like is it setting the Kollsman window to 1013 when above TL... other than that I like the new "auto checkin" option, specially because during the filghts I am not always at the desktop, and while in MSFS 2024 with BATC that wasn't a problem, in Xp12 with default ATC I would some times return to the PC and find my IFR flightplan had been close...

Edited January 30Jan 30 by jcomm