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CaPY Sep 10, 2020 @ 4:00am
How to change pressure to hPa?
I fly mostly in Europe and as you all know we don't use those imperial pressures here. Can you set it to hPa somewhere?
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Licopolis Sep 10, 2020 @ 4:43am 
Multiply inHg by 33.8 and you'll get your average hPa.
that's one thing a device called "flight computer" exists for.
Last edited by Licopolis; Sep 10, 2020 @ 4:43am
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CaPY Sep 10, 2020 @ 5:37am 
How do I set flight computer in the game to hPa, how I tell it to multiply the numbers.
I've seen videos on youtube from people flying in europe to have that in hPa in garmin 1000.
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flitzpiepe0815 Sep 10, 2020 @ 7:16am 
On the A320n for example you can move the mouse around the altimeter switch until the hand pointer symbol appears and click. This switches between hPa and inHG.

Nevertheless the ATC will continue to tell you non-european altimeters which is a bummer but was also the case in FSX.
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MightyCaco Sep 10, 2020 @ 7:25am 
The thing is, most aircraft in FS2020 with an electronic display (minus the airbus or steam gauge aircraft) do not have the hPa functionality modelled. I hope eventually they will model that in, but until that time, you may have to resort to a calculator.

Personally, I cross-multiply to get my figures.

1013 hpa = 29.92 inhg

Say you want to know the what 1003 hpa is in in/hg, what you would do is take (1003 * 29.92)/1013 = 29.62 inhg

Or if you want to know what 30.12 is in hpa, you can go (30.12 * 1013)/29.92 = 1020

Its a crude method, and it sucks that hPa isn't modeled since most of the world isn't America, but this is the walkaround until the devs get their act together.

Last edited by MightyCaco; Sep 10, 2020 @ 7:29am
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CaPY Sep 10, 2020 @ 7:38am 
How can this simulator be realistic when I can't even get hPa in Europe. :(
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felixm5225 May 3, 2021 @ 7:10am 
I agree units should be flexible/ able to change in settings depends on where you fly.
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Rever May 3, 2021 @ 7:23am 
Originally posted by CPY:
How can this simulator be realistic when I can't even get hPa in Europe. :(

The units should match what is in the real planes. So if you are flying a plane that has metric units as an option then it should be available. That is realistic.
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Maki Nishikino May 3, 2021 @ 7:39am 
Originally posted by felixm5225:
I agree units should be flexible/ able to change in settings depends on where you fly.

The Working Title mods allow this and some aircraft have both units on their analog altimeter.
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