compass request

[Redroach]

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.