Phosphene visual artifacts and temporary partial blindness

[Avimimus]

Thats actually true, you're right one of the things I noticed early and loved about Il-2 was its modeling of "snow blindness". Blessed Russians actually understand continental winter climates...

The goggles might be a neat feature though, like a reticle dimmer that actually works. FOV may already be restricted by the monitor but this fact would exist both with or without goggles. The goggles would simply give the pilot another configuration feature to tweak, that would have realistic trade-offs and matter in combat (like gun convergence).