Different transition altitudes/levels in different world regions

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Brief description of the issue:
The transition altitude/FL seems to be 18000ft/FL180 everywhere, but in Europe it’s actually somewhere between 8000-10000ft for transition altitude and transition FL varies.

Also, the ATC sometimes wants me to fly with local QNH even when given clearance to FL180. I was flying at FL180 with standard baro when the ATC told me I was too high and told me to descend.

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Detail steps to reproduce the issue encountered:
Fly IFR from an controlled airport in Europe. You should be able to ask for FL100 but the ATC keeps using QNH up to FL180.

Then fly around at FL180 with standard baro setting. ATC will sometimes ask you to climb or descend if local QNH differ from std baro enough to make your altitude differ more than let’s say 300-500 ft.

PC specs and/or peripheral set up of relevant:
Not relevant

Build Version # when you first started experiencing this issue:
1.21.18.0

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