Cessna Citation, can't read airspeed/altitude

[cantremember 27]

This is something I experience with most of the glass cockpits but most so with the Cessna Citation.

Now I don't know if my eyesight or screen are bad, but I find it very difficult to read the airspeed and altitude, the numbers are very small on the regular piloting view; I can zoom in to see the instruments better but then I hardly see outside.

Anyone else who has the same experience?

[robert young 2,897]

1 hour ago, cantremember said:

This is something I experience with most of the glass cockpits but most so with the Cessna Citation.

Now I don't know if my eyesight or screen are bad, but I find it very difficult to read the airspeed and altitude, the numbers are very small on the regular piloting view; I can zoom in to see the instruments better but then I hardly see outside.

Anyone else who has the same experience?

Yes. I find The TBM PFD is impossible to read without 20.20 vision as the text (and indeed the moving strips) are so small you need to zoom right in.

Edited September 1, 2020 by robert young

[jt_williams 291]

I use the right alt key to create the pop-up of the glass display when I need to see the fine print.   Works for all of the glass displays.  You can then move it to a second monitor if you want to.

[cantremember 27]

10 hours ago, jt_williams said:

I use the right alt key to create the pop-up of the glass display when I need to see the fine print.   Works for all of the glass displays.  You can then move it to a second monitor if you want to.

I didn't know that I'll have to try it out! I often did that in FSX (it popped out the PFD as a window when you clicked on it in some of the planes)