You only can hide the HUD from the menu. But sometimes in general You want to have it but want to hide it quickly for a nice screenshot.
We need a hotkey to turn on/off instruments in external view.
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I fully support this
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If you go to “Controls” and the filter “ALL” - it’ll give you a bunch of unassigned keys.
If you search for “toggle” you will come across things like “Toggle Cockpit” and “Toggle Instrument View Freelook” - so I think it’s already possible to toggle this.
My problem is that the game won’t allow me to assign keys at the moment for some reason.
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Hot key or not - Given there is a fairly good range of Options within the Camera dialog, A simple toggle switch in the GUI would be sufficient to start with, then allow advanced users to assign to Joystick buttons or Key combos if they so wish.
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Agree with this.
It’s not terribly hard pausing to the menu and switching on and off, but seems that a toggle key should be available.
In fact, I was so sure it would be possible, I spent an hour or more this morning trying to find it… pretty sure it’s NOT already possible to do as suggested above.
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The function (under GENERAL-CAMERA) is called INSTRUMENT HEADS-UP DISPLAY (HUD). There is no function as of now to toggle it on and off 
I would love a button to toggle the Hud on and off for the external view.
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I agree I wish this is taken into consideration
Just created mod: uimod-mugz-hiddenhud
Toggle ingame HUD on/off by pressing NumLock
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Great stuff!!!
You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar! It works perfectly, thank you very much. 
Or a “pure scenery shot mode” that can automatically hide the HUD/instruments temporarily when taking an external view screenshot, then resume the HUD/instruments after the screenshot has been taken.
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I hope to be able to assign a key to HUD on / off to not interrupt the flight (pause) and follow the long procedure: Options> General> Camera> Tools.
Pielle (from Italy)
Sorry for the translation via Google Translate!
And few other options on how it looks, a minimalistic less intrusive or arcadish one would be great.
Until this is implemented good folks, this mod does exactly what you want. It lets you toggle the external HUD & other UI elements (POI, player names) with the backspace key.
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Really would like a future sim update to include a TOGGLE option for the chase camera HUD to be able to bind to the keyboard, etc. so it can be turned on/off during flight when using the chase camera view. I enjoy switching between cockpit and chase views during every flight and this would save having to pause the flight to change the selection. I understand there is this unofficial add-on but I’d prefer to have it built into the sim. Seems like a simple thing to add.
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Really good suggestion - voted.
The UI Mod “Shift-z Stats” does do the trick!
Made for having a Framecounter, Lat/Lon Display, Simrate display, fuel … etc in red colour in the upper left corner like it was in FSX.
Additionally it has a hot key on < for toggeling the HUD in cockpit and outer view.
Get it on fligjtsim.to
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An assignable key for toggling the external gauges would be very convenient.
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