It used to be able to block the sun. People were using it as a way to block out the sun thereby robbing someone, who took the time to setup properly and dive in from the sun, of their advantage. Thus it was changed to what we have today.
And IMHO it should stay the way it is. If you want to read it while flying into the sun, look left/right/back/up/down and read it.
reasonable point. however wouldnt you say that rl pilots would use sunspecs, their hand, or maybe their clipboards to allow them to see better into the sun. brit pilots had little shields projecting obove tgeir goggles precisely for ths reason.
I wasnt making the original suggestion for any reason other than wanting to look at the map comfortably, people will always "game" it whatever way they can, I completelty disagree with any F3 views for example. but really, a well set up and planned attack out of the sun is not going to be foiled by someone opening their clipboards and taking the time to place them in order to block the sun and still give vision to fight. That really is unrealistic
