Barometric Setting

I wonder if the pressure setting for the Altimeter in the real F18 Charlie, "tops out" at 2810 as well.

Sometimes the pressure setting window is not enough, has anyone got a reference or can that be moded in?

Tx

I wonder if the pressure setting for the Altimeter in the real F18 Charlie, "tops out" at 2810 as well.

Older standards required a range of "at least 28.1 - 30.99 inHg (946 - 1049 millibars)".

I'm not sure if that's also true of the F/A-18C modelled.

Note: in 2016 the US? civilian standard was updated to a range of 27.50 - 31.50 inHg (931.3 to 1066.7 mb). The Hornet and it's instruments in DCS pre-date this change.

Sometimes the pressure setting window is not enough, has anyone got a reference or can that be moded in?

The Altimeter should be set so it reads the field's elevation above MSL, not zero i.e. it should be set to QNH

Aircraft height, target elevation, etc are expected to be accurate with respect to MSL (or the GPS ellipsoid) so the weapons computer can calculate the height of the plane above a target prior to weapon release, etc.

Using a pressure setting other than QNH, may throw this calculation out if the weapons system falls back to using the barometric altimeter.

Very helpfull, tx