If you increase your default FoV much above 90, I'm at 105. I've had to use zoom to make out the drones from the darker mask of the gunsight glass, scratches on the windscreen, ground, and the much closer Icon lettering. Until inside of 200. The gunsight glass mask lightens up considerably on zoom. I do not know if Waffle will lighten it, and I've attempted to change the default color of my gunsight mask to something that will brighten it up to no avail yet. Best solution so far is a dot with the alpha slider all the way up.
My graphic card plays the game at 4096 with excellent results and my monitor is a 24 inch. Reducing the resolution for the game from 1980x1024 to 1768x992 lightens the mask enough to use it unzoomed outside of 200. Makes the game look like flat washed out gack....