Barometer Quick Setting in MSFS 2024 for Xbox?

[dreampage]

In MSFS 2020, there was a quick shortcut to synchronize the barometer to the current pressure. On PC this is done with the B key and you could bind the same function on an Xbox controller. Now, in MSFS 2024 there seems to be no function. I found this only in the C172, but in all other aircraft there’s simply no option to look up and bind the same controls. The Controls menu is a mess anyway, you can only edit aircraft-specific controls and not the General key bindings.

Is there a solution to this, to bind this feature somehow to be used on all aircraft?

[GoSammy1971]

Some missing features are just unbelivable, why they removed this?

Just for the non competetive single player career mode?

I am sure when they get these question they look same like
after they heard the explanation why the 24hrs historic live weather
is bad for online networks.

I hope for me i can fix this with an Axis and Ohs script which reads the local QNH and sets the barometer values

[TheOldWiseMan]

In msfs2024 i believe the default binding is the comma , key

[DementedCorn327]

Related topic: Why did you get rid of my B for Auto Altimeter set?

[dreampage]

On Xbox I don’t have a keyboard. I’m looking for a general setting for this to bind, but there is none. Only in the C172. Any other aircraft I look for the same setting and it’s simply not there.

[GoSammy1971]

I think i found it “Set Altimeter”

[dreampage]

Thanks, I’m going to check it now. I was looking for “BARO” and there was a setting for that as well in the C172. Maybe this altimeter one is that applies to all aircraft.

Yes this is it, thank you! I marked your comment as the solution.

[GoSammy1971]

I have tested it, the 2nd set Altimeter control does the trick (Look at the description to find the right one)

Maybe the MSL one does it without setting standard above 18000

[NixonRedgrave]

@GoSammy1971

the 2nd set Altimeter control does the trick

Yes, this is applicable to all aircraft.

[dreampage]

For me it’s the first one, because I want to set the altimeter to the actual current value which I don’t know. The second one sets it to standard (29.92/1013) but that also can be done on most planes by pressing the baro button.

[dreampage]

I’m not even surprised that this feature is broken too. Pressing the button sets a completely different QNH than what the ATC tells me. They told me QNH was 1020 yet the quick setting turned it down to 948. A completely different altitude. They must get the data from different sources. Why doesn’t anything work in this sim…

[NixonRedgrave]

@dreampage

They told me QNH was 1020 yet the quick setting turned it down to 948. A completely different altitude. They must get the data from different sources.

That still happens?

This is seriously maddening. I had that issue since day one, but yesterday I was testing it for help on another thread and it was working for me – flawlessly.

There are no patch notes stating it was fixed, so the reason it breaks and fixes itself must be due to variables yet to be worked out.

This sim…

ATC not giving new altimeter

Right. Here they are: Set Altimeter – Set altimeter setting (Millibars * 16) Set Altimeter – Syncs altimeter setting to sea level pressure, or 29.92 if above 18000 feet Set Altimeter to MSL pressure – Set the altimeter to mean sea level pressure Option 2 seems to do what I described in my previous post – set the altimeter to something completely crazy. 99% of the time it puts the Kollsman at the lowest possible setting, which, when on the ground, puts many hundreds of feet below sea level. …

Barometric Pressure from ATIS has 6 digits, does not set altimeter correct

For reasons that I cannot discern, as there are no patch notes stating as such, the Set Altimeter key bind is no longer being set incorrectly. ATIS still reports the altimeter reading to the thousandth, but it no longer seems to erroneously affect the Set Altimeter control binding. At least, not at this moment, on this day, maybe it will change itself again.

Once again, I seem to speak the truth:

@Barometric Pressure from ATIS has 6 digits

At least, not at this moment, on this day, maybe it will change itself again.

[dreampage]

Yes it happens, in Career mode at least. I was in a rainy, cloudy weather so 948 seemed more plausible for me. 1020 is very close to standard setting (1013) which doesn’t look right in such stormy weather.

I will have to go to an airport whose elevation I know and press the button to see if the key binding puts me at that elevation or not. That’s the only way to know who’s right. But you have to follow the ATC anyway, otherwise they will constantly bug you about expediting your climb.

[NixonRedgrave]

My issue, when I first discover it, was I would load into KPRB (where I fly in/out of all the time), which is at ~820’. When I pressed my Set Altimeter binding, the altimeter would end up displaying negative 1140’ due to bottoming out the baro setting:

What is totally bizarre, is that yesterday it worked fine – and I tested it at multiple airports.

What are we meant to do with this inconsistency?

[dreampage]

I just tried it at my local airport (the second “set altimeter” keybind), LHBP, which is at 495 ft and it worked, in Free Flight at least.

[HitherRhyme2844]

Off course you can edit the general key bindings also in MSFS 2024.

[silentsinger75]

Having the same issue on PC. Baro always sets to 0948. Is there a fix for this or anyone else experiencing the same issue?

[gksqd71]

I had the same issue with the 1st “Altimeter Setting”. It would put it at 27.99 regardless of where I was. I bound a button on my A320 sidestick to the 2nd one and it works like a charm. Both in Career Mode and Free Flight.