[flyingblind]

Adjusting your TIR settings will certainly help but there are other issues at work that have been extensively discussed in other threads.

I think you have to ask yourself how real do you want the game to be. Most people who play this game seriously would say as real as possible. In which case they should use the 30 deg FOV. The manual states the correct field of view to use is 30deg. But, you might say, this restricts my view and SA and puts me at a disadvantage. I think it might be worth having a look at the Utube videos of Gp Cptn Paul Day's appraisal of both the Spitfire and the 109 although I expect most have already seen them. They demonstrate just how small the cockpits are and how restricted the view in actual fact really was.(Search 'Spitefire the legend the facts and its opponent' and 'Cockpit of Messerchmitt 109'). So in real life the gunsight would be much more in your face than most people like.

The other big issue is that the gunsights do not behave in quite the same way on a computer screen as in real life because in real life you see 3D objects with two eyes. Look at your monitor and then cover one eye with your hand. You will not lose half the monitor you will still see the whole monitor, just a little less clearly because you cut out half the light. And that is what happens with the gunsights - you only need to look through the sight with one eye with both eyes open and the cross hairs will appear to float outside of the glass screen. In the game this does not happen as the crosshairs can only be seen on the screen which, coupled with the way most people prefer flying at larger field of views than 30deg makes the gunsights more difficult to use. This holds true for both Spits and 109s it just so happens the Germans exploited this phenomenon more than the British by offsetting thier sights to give the pilot a less obscured forward view, they didn't actually have to move or tilt thier heads to take aim. It has been suggested that a better representation would be to allow the crosshairs to float outside of the screen in the game but there are plenty of others who would disagree.