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The Su-27 cockpit is a virtual cockpit with working dials .... AND .... the ability to zoom in and out. I flew around for days before finding this feature - DUH ! Note that these are captures of the FULL SCREEN view - this is what you see from the pilot's seat. They are not cropped images (of course they have been resized to fit on the website).

As you can see in the shots above, you zoom in and out depending on the needs of the moment. Navigating and dogfigjhting are wonderful in the fully - zoomed - out wide screen view, then you can zoom in to focus on a particular instrument. Actually, at 1024 x 768 resolution on a 17" monitor I found all the instruments quite legible even on the fully - zoomed - out setting. The main uses I found for zooming in were:

• lining up a guns shot in air combat
• lining up a rocket attack
• lining up in the last moments of landing