Toggling between 1000 & 100ft when setting altitude

[teebo459]

Is it possble to bind a keyboard shortcut to switch between setting altitude by 100s vs 1000s? I know I can use my mouse, but try to use my mouse as little as possible. I’ve not found anything that makes me thinks this is a function I can access.

I’ve found some older (now closed) topics on this that had no resolution, but thought maybe something has been introduced in an update since.

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[TRANSAIR4045]

If this is for the Fenix 320, I’m looking for the same answer. Also have a ‘mouse free’ cockpit if possible

[hobanagerik]

This article may be of interest. It details turning a second keyboard into a MIDI device, which SPAD can use.

Tutorial: How to use any secondary PC keyboard to control MSFS events and variables via SPAD.neXt and MIDI commands

The idea is simple: I’ve been using the full version of SPAD.neXt which includes MIDI support and, as such, can utilize devices such as Behringer Xtouch Mini or Novation Launchpad Mini to control MSFS. In particular to control things that cannot be mapped directly via in-game settings, for example all L:VAR/H:VAR variables which are very common in 3rd party aircraft (WT CJ4, Piper P28R, CRJ and so on). Although a full blown MIDI controller with dozens of keys and knobs would be ideal, they also…

[Zeppos]

And it actually still works It’s a bit of a pain to set up the very first time, though I hope the instructions in that article are as clear as possible. But once you have set it up, you really forget about it. Then all you have to do is launch UCR, activate your profile and then launch Spad.next, so essentialy a 5-second process.

Nowadays I’m using the above hack with a 6x2 keyboard to emulate LSK keys for CRJ’s MCDU:

It works like a charm. And it obviously has the potential that you can use a full secondary keyboard to map dozens and dozens of physical keys, without going through MSFS control settings at all, thus controlling everything via Spad’s API calls.

[teebo459]

Very eager to try this out this weekend. Thank you both!