Or is looking at the cockpit gauge the only option? When I say "HUD Style," I mean like in IL-2 1946 with a few little lines on the bottom left corner or something.

I think I have good news and bad news.

The good news is that if you press ALT-left click a current 'info window', and then right mouse button to bring up the menu, you can get to the 'Customize Info Window'. From there you can move things in and out of that window, i.e. engine info etc, plus play around with the size/color of the fonts and whatnot. You can also drag and resize the window about, i.e. put it in-front of your nose for a HUD like experience.

The bad news bit is that I think the airspeed, altitude and compass bearing are missing from this config so far.

Edit: I built one here: http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3347984/Re_Is_it_possible_to_make_airs.html#Post3347984

Thanks FF, I've been playing with those windows and saw the bad news part of it last night. It's still a nice feature, though.

Yes I sure miss this from the old IL2 days

Open the cockpit , roll to the left a bit and look down across the wing, if the trees are moving from the front to the rear of the aircraft and there is no noticable shuddering the speed is ok.If the trees are moving from the rear to the front of the aircraft check first to see if you are sitting facing forward before panicking.If the trees are stationary and you could not roll the plane on any axis you are more than likely still stationary on the ground.In this case do not panic, either alight from the aircraft or takeoff and perform the checks as above.

The same basics goes for height , roll and look down over the wing,if the trees look like baby brocoli below, your height is ok.If you can count individual leaves and identify the different patterns in the bark you are too low or you may still be stationary,check the same roll axis step as mentioned above to to confirm if you are stationary.

The common element with both of the above is too remember, you can never have too much of either.If you think you have enough,you don't.The guy above and behind you will prove that

After trying your recommendations I can report that the cockpit of my Spitfire has a mixture of leaves, urine and feces in it.

lol

Printed and stuck to the screen for instant reference. I printed this on a transparent overhead projector sheet so I can still use my monitor, of course, I'm not a complete idiot!

All kidding aside, I can't count how frequently I've lost sight of an enemy aircraft by glancing down all-so-briefly to check temps, rpm, boost, etc. before diving down and closing. Look back up.......and they're gone!!!! (No doubt this happened to actual pilots, too).

Hence the reason the HUD was introduced, and now is being supplanted by HMDs.



The Jedi Master

I know by experimentation that you can get a window with percentage of throttle and mixture but it still has a visible box around it even when you make the borders invisible stil don't see a way to put the compass heading on it and once I made the engine controls icons disappear I can't figure out how to restore them, I'm sure someone will have it all figured out and make instructions or something we can copy and past into the config