18 hours ago, snglecoil said:

Soooooo tiny! Impossible to read even with my old man reading glasses 🤓

 Are you saying you use your reading glasses to look at your monitor? For me, the focal lengths are very different. I have a pair (several actually, one for each room) of reading(books, newspapers)18" away and one pair for the monitor approx 3' away.

Use the RIGHT Alt Key + the up and down arrows to adjust your seating position without affecting the zoom. I've found that this makes the PFD / MFDs easier to read.

37 minutes ago, Ron Attwood said:

Are you saying you use your reading glasses to look at your monitor? For me, the focal lengths are very different. I have a pair (several actually, one for each room) of reading(books, newspapers)18" away and one pair for the monitor approx 3' away.

When I had cataract surgery I was given the option to have lenses that focused at reading distance or focused for distance vision.  I requested one that would focus on my monitor about 27" away.  The closest they were able to get was an 18" focal length, and it turns out to be perfect.  I can still read, see the monitor without problems, and still see things at a distance better than I could before surgery.

The other eye has a distance lens, which I had to get special permission to get.  It works, but I don't recommend it, and many doctors probably won't do it anyway. 🙂 

My default zoom in MSFS is 90.  Instruments are approximately life size and the scenery is much more dramatic.  I don't use glass cockpits, only steam gauges.

Does anyone know how to zoom higher than 100 for looking at distant objects?  I've seen this in videos but have no idea how to do it.

Hook

I noticed after latest patch the font got blurrier than before on the displays. specially on the TBM930. Now I have to constantly to zoom in closer to see the letters and numbers.

It was much better before the patch.

Geting a track ir 5 soon so hope it makes zoomin in easier.

6 hours ago, robert young said:

I can read that text better than I can read text on a G1000 from 3 feet away! To be fair to this sim, modern avionics are a complete mystery in the way they prioritise readouts. You have all that HUGE screen and all you can see is the horizon. You have to move very close or have binoculars to see any salient info. Take for example the climb or descent rate. Yes you can see a vague icon moving up and down, but you cannot see the text of your climb rate (it is tiny) unless you zoom right in or translate forward until everything else is blanked out.

The wonderful thing about analogue gauges is that a moving needle can be seen at five times the distance of a similar readout on glass gauges. This is not about being "old fashioned". It is about being practical. You can't really blame simulators. But you can point the finger at glass gauge designers who seem to make it their life's work to obscure as much vital info as possible, while claiming their products are more "safe" than ever before.

 

yep, agreed.  Our rental club has a few with the 1000 units.  I find it very distracting as you have variable movement of the horizon line through several gauges (speed, alt, VS).  I think this is why on the large arliners those items are isolated on the screen.  It is like if you had a steam gauge that had EGT, VS and OAT on a single round gauge with one needle...

6 hours ago, Ron Attwood said:

 Are you saying you use your reading glasses to look at your monitor? For me, the focal lengths are very different. I have a pair (several actually, one for each room) of reading(books, newspapers)18" away and one pair for the monitor approx 3' away.

Yeah it was sort of tongue in cheek...but I do have progressive lenses for reading, computer, and normal distance.