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MSFS20 how to set the Kollsman Setting (barometric pressure of altimeter) in a landing challenge?

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I'm trying to make a landing challenge in FS2020 but the barometric pressure is defaulted to 29.92, whereas the landing challenge area should have the pressure set to 29.76 (otherwise when the challenge starts at 1000ft, you're really not at 1000ft but lower)

I see in an example LandingChallenge.FLT there is an option of:

```
[Gauges.0]
KollsmanSetting=29.921342849731445313
```

Which I've tried putting in my landing challenge file (changing the setting accordingly) but it doesn't set the pressure of the altimeter (using a Cessna 152), if I press the set altimeter key (b) then it does nothing unless i twiddle the altimeter knob then press (b) and it resets back to 29.92

Does anyone know how you can set this barometric pressure so the altimeter is correct automatically in a landing challenge?
 
Not tackling your specific question but note that this may be a "display issue": I have found on multiple aircraft that many gauges and controls of the Virtual Cockpit update in an inconsistent way when sim events take place.
Just for example: on the 747 when you toggle the autothrottle using the keyboard shortcut, the Virtual Cockpit switch doesnt move but the EICAS display shows the A/T warning.
Back to your case, you may want find a variable you can query directly to confirm if the setting is at the intended value or not.
 
how do you query and set variables via the landing challenge FLT file? Or is there another way of doing what you suggested?
 
Thestonefox said:
how do you query and set variables via the landing challenge FLT file? Or is there another way of doing what you suggested?
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Do you mean to confirm this suspicion? If they are SimConnect variable, you may get lucky and try to query them via several utilities available including the SimConnect sample on the FS2020 SDK.
 
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