Altimeter Question

[Bud]

Tho' greatly enjoying this experience, I seem to still be having probs with the altimeter. I fly only the F1 ATR, I use default ATC and default
FS weather. As an example, on my last flight, I got OK to land - altimeter set in accordance with tower advice. Shortly before landing there
was a pressure change [according to FS Flightkeeper] and I made the adjustment. The flt. report gave me the 'wrong alt setting penalty'.
From memory, this has happended about 2 or 3 times and always when there has been a pressure change between the tower advice
and touchdown. Question is, is the altimeter setting for FSP purposes calculated at the point that Tower advice is given, or upon landing.
In other words, should I ignore any change after Tower advice.

Hope this all makes sense.

Bud

[SWAFO]

Hey Bud,
I've had similiar problems with the altimeter (especially when using real world weather), so what I do now is simply press the "B"
key prior to takeoff and then again before landing, and also when passing FL180 on both the climb and descent (or the transition altitude
of whatever country you're flying in).

Although this sacrifices realism to a minute extent, it seems to work great for me! Hope this helps. If not, let me know... that's what
I'm here for

EDIT: I believe the FSP altimeter penalty is based on the current altimeter setting that FS9 recognizes... i.e, what you download or set.

[Bud]

Cheers Brad

I'm using one of the GoFlight modules - one of the buttons sets the current altimeter [in fact I believe it sends a simulated 'B' key press to
FS], so essentially I do what you do and there I think is the problem. If there is a pressure change between Tower advisory and
touchdown, pressing 'B' just before landing appears to score a penalty for wrong setting. I say 'appears' because I'm not 100% certain
but it has sure happened on 3 flights. This is what led me to believe that maybe the altimeter penalty was based on the Tower advice.

Bud

[Iberiaorbit]

I press B key all the time or if I want more realistic experience once everytime ATC tells you the altimeter settings or contact ATIS
service to have the accurate Mercury HG every one minute. Anyway the important part is in the attitude indicator: keep the blue upsides

[Bud]

Any further views on this?

Bud

[DeC]

When it says that i had wrong altimeter settings upon departure does that mean the settings on the autopilot or all that talk you had above?

I had 25000 and vertical speed 2500 and got penalty.

[DBE]

Guess that was answered here ==>> http://www.fspassengers.com/forum/showth...p?tid=5314

[poden]

This is one penalty I just disable. The sim is too unreliable to support it well. I still press "B" pretty frequently though.

[SWAFO]

If you manually set your weather before each flight (meaning the pressure remains static), you won't have this problem!