Just took a screenshot.

Your right and this is easier to setup when your the ground but once air and you do some tight turn the gyro goes out and you have to do another setup and this a lot harder to do because you can't move the joystick out of the way and this is one of the main season i what a compass heading so i can re-dial in the gyro

NedLynch,
you're right, the directional gyro shows its direction in a tooltip and that's good how it is (damn, is the Blen's gyro compass hard to read...)
However, people here are talking about the magnetic compass, used for calibrating the gyro (it's done automatically on airstart, so you may not be aware of that). There, the tooltip shows the manually-adjusted value of the selector ring, which is brought in line with the compass needle to get the magnetic heading. And that's the hard part: the needle, as well as the entire magnetic compass is hard to see.

My newest suggestion would be: Make an insert of the compass, in a straight-down view, into the "look at panel" view. It could be animated to roll in neatly into the lower-left corner, or whereever it fits.

How about a setting that turns off the Control Column graphic?

Don't really need to see a stick waggling around in front of you. I'd rather see the instruments and I can't believe anyone really fires the guns using the mouse cursor in the spadegrip button.

Or just move the spadegrip down the screen out if the way?

Or why not add heading info to an info window?

I can see revs, speed, temp and even if I've killed the stuka gunner but I can't see which heading I'm on......

True when you put your mouse pointer on the compass the magnetic one it give you the heading. But not the true one!

I pleaded for that, too, in the beginning. But growing user-wisdom says it's actually already possible to re-create such an il2-style window. Have a look at the FMB-Forum... I forgot in which topic it was :(