Any way to read Co-Pilot Baro?

[Godehardt]

Hello,

 

I am slowly desperate.

Im running a project with a PMDG aircraft which is working pretty well. But there's one thing I can't get out of my head. The Baro and Minimums.

So the most things are running via the PMDG SDK. This works good but the Baro and Minimums Knobs doent work in the SDK.

As I detected that I tried to read it via SimConnect Variables. That should work theoretically but it doesn't. The two baros are seperated (Captain and F/O). The SimConnect Variable "KOHLSMAN SETTING MB" does work very good in the standard aircrafts. With "KOHLSMAN SETTING MB:2" I can read out the F/O baro except in the PMDG. So I can read the Captains baro but not the F/O.

One way to read it would be to wait for Key-Inputs that increase and decrease the baro. But I think that isnt "the yellow from the egg". No one wants to press a key to change the Barometer. 

So my last try could be FSUIPC. To be honest I havent done any project in FSUIPC. But is there a way to get an Offset or an Event from the F/O baro? An Offset would be the best but an Event would be enough.

 

Would appreciate some answers

[Pete Dowson]

2 hours ago, Godehardt said:

So the most things are running via the PMDG SDK. This works good but the Baro and Minimums Knobs doent work in the SDK.

You mean the custom controls PMDG added don't include them?

2 hours ago, Godehardt said:

With "KOHLSMAN SETTING MB:2" I can read out the F/O baro except in the PMDG. So I can read the Captains baro but not the F/O.

It sounds like they implemented their own FO Kollsman. Perhaps that dated originally from before the FO one was supported (P3D4 was it?)

2 hours ago, Godehardt said:

But is there a way to get an Offset or an Event from the F/O baro?

Not if it is internal to the aircraft and isn't in the data provided by the PMDG implementation.

Pete

 

[Godehardt]

13 hours ago, Pete Dowson said:

You mean the custom controls PMDG added don't include them?

It sounds like they implemented their own FO Kollsman. Perhaps that dated originally from before the FO one was supported (P3D4 was it?)

Not if it is internal to the aircraft and isn't in the data provided by the PMDG implementation.

Pete

 

Okay, then we have to wait... PMDG wants to fix that in the MSFS 2020 editon. I will do it via key commands for the F/O.

Thanks for your detailed answer!