[Twotter - Modern 300 - Altimeter settings]

Well, here's a couple of things you could try:

1. Print off this: http://www.pcwp.com/mb_conversion.html and keep it handy.

2. When you get the pressure setting from ATC, check it against what the tooltip shows. Twiddle up or down to adjust as required., although I think you'll have to re-hover the mouse pointer each time.

3. Create a mini-panel or use some other 2D panel with the Twotter that has suitable altimeter and make the change from there.

Only workarounds and not solutions I know, but with the "B" function available too it's hardly a showstopper - although I can appreciate why it might be an irritation.

Holdit

Holdit, thanks for the conversion chart. I had made a much smaller one using a converter program - about every 5 millibars. Having the chart handy and using the B key should do it.

I now need to learn about handling turboprops, especially how to slow down the plane for an approach.

Thanks again.

Ray

[Twotter - Modern 300 - Altimeter settings]

I'm pretty sure that if you hover the mouse pointer over the altimeter knob, the tooltip gives you the pressure setting in both formats.

Holdit

The problem is not the knowing the pressure setting, it is how to set it to the changing, current pressure. Unless one knows all the corresponding conversions and ATC only gives the reading in In Hg, and the Twotter can only be set using millibars. Duh?

Let say I take off on an IFR flight plan and the pressure is 29.92 (1013) and I fly for 20 minutes and Approach Control makes contact and states altimeter 29.57. I check the altimeter and it is set at 29.92, If I turn the adjustment knob it reads out in millibars, this is where I am having the difficulties. I need to set it to 29.57 but I can only see millibars adjustments.

The next transmission is from ATC stating that I am either 200 feet too high or 200 feet to low, because I do not have the correct altimeter setting.

Most, actually every one of my addons except the Twin Otter, has a choice of millibars or In hg or only has in hg.

Thanks.

[My personal procedure- and checklist]

Not at all, not at all. I am at this moment making videos that follow your guide step by step. The first is now on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoP_lXyEWKY

Looking good. Keep it coming. Thanks for your detailed interest.

Ray

Mathijs,

Do you think the CD/Box version of Airbus x will be released on 30.09.10? Just a couple of more days.

[How to fly a Twotter - Any links to speeds, charts, etc.]

Manual p.26 seems to fulfill all your requirements, in conjunction with the more complex `numbers` that you seem to want to disregard from the kneeboard.

This is not a complicated aircraft. It is a STOL aircraft that is used in a any number of different situations. As the manual says in a single page, one doesn't really need anything more complex than that and if you're looking for something

Hope this helps.

It does help. Thanks very much.

Ray