Please add reflections to Garmin glass cockpit screens

Recently I’ve been flying the FSR500 again, which obviously has a glass cockpit, and tried to delve deeper into why I dislike glass cockpits so much. Some reasons I already mentioned a few times:

  • garish oversaturated colors which are just bad to look at. They really seem to use a 100% saturation for the blues, which never looks good or real.
  • too cluttered with too much information with tiny numbers crammed into a tight space

But then it hit me: the content of the screens just looks superimposed on the cockpit instead of being a part of it, because there are zero reflections when the screens are on. This makes the screen look super fake and kinda ruins the immersion.

I’m aware that these screens are equipped with antiglare coating in real life, but that stuff never works a 100% on bright, sunny days. Just watch a number of videos with glass cockpits and you will see that there are plenty of reflections, which would help marry the image with the cockpit and sell the illusion that we are looking at actual screens. Here is an example at 8:12 with plenty of reflections:

TL;DR please add reflections to glass cockpit screens when they are turned on (there are reflections when they are off, which looks good!) to increase the realism of glass cockpit aircraft.

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That video is from a high camera perspective not the pilots eye point so its not a true reflection (pun intended) of what he is seeing. The screens they use in these avionics are not akin to your average smart phone, tablet or laptop. They are way easier to read in direct sunlight. Sure they are not totally reflection free but if adding it to the sim it probably needs to be subtle or better an optional setting because some users may not like it.

I believe this is added in 2024.

I think this wish covers your request regarding colors:

It is clear your main wish is related to reflections but please make sure to look for existing wishes prior creating a new one and include only 1 request in your topic. Complete list regarding Garmin:
https://forums.flightsimulator.com/search?q=%23official%3Awishlist%20tags%3Agarmin%20order%3Alatest_topic

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