Is that a specific plane thing?
I get a side rear view in a f4u but not in a 109..
109 6 view is directly astern..
Eagler

OK, we are looking down on the plane, 2 is the nose and direction of travel, 6 is ....well our six

If I am tracking a target down my left side...2, 3, 4, 5 I am turning my head to the left and eventually over my left shoulder to try and look to my 6. Old age doesnt allow me to do this any more so I was hoping to use the "6 view" button on my joystick. The problem is as I reach the 4-5 area of my head movement, I hit the 6 switch and now I am looking at the 0-7 view out of the plane. My target is all the way on the other side of the tail.
So far I have removed the left, rear, and right views from my hat switch. I have the left/rear, and the right rear still active, but dont know how well I can track targets through those views.
What Im looking for is a way to swap the view when using the the hat switch to look rearward. Its a relative issue.Turning my head to the left I see the left side of the plane but jumping to the read view my left head movement is looking out the right side of the plane.