Simconnect AUTOPILOT ALTITUDE LOCK VAR another mistery of MSFS 2020

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This is really a mistery to me.
I read this varialbe through Simconnect since a lot of time. Really no problem about it. Now I’m trying to set it rather than use events to variate…
In some documentation is indicated as settable… in other as readonly.

Anyways I’ve discovered that when you read it from MSFS it’s in feet… when you write it it’s in meter…

I’ve setted the value 1 and I read 3… I’ve setted 10 and I read 32.80…
Absolutely amazing…

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And about vertical velocity (AUTOPILOT VERTICAL HOLD VAR) the unit seems something like 0.005080000 feet per minute.
I’ve made various test and it seem consistent with this behaviour…

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Sounds like meters per second (m/s).

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here we go… I didn’t think about time unit, I thought only about measure conversion…