Thanks Sonic. Unfortunately, for the cockpit instruments, what you see is what you get.
Try looking at my plane from outside, with chase view (F4) so that the camera has some slack to it that emphasizes accelerations in any of the axes. Turn on the red trails and pan the camera (F8) slightly up from its default dead-six position. This is the position that works for most cases, but it's possible there's a better one to be found by panning to different angles. The distance slider will have to be set to max distance and you might have to lower the time multiplier, if you want to look from anywhere in the front half of the plane.