I’ve played MSFS for several months & am really enjoying it. I would like a wider FOV than I get on my 17”, 16:9 screen, even at minimum zoom. Before shelling out $$ for a wide screen monitor, I wanted to see what the display would look like.
If anyone is using such a monitor in the 21:9 - 32:9 range (flat or curved), I’ love to see a screen shot, at minimum zoom for the widest FOV, preferably with enough detail so any pincushion distortion is apparent. Please include the screen size, aspect ratio & radius if curved, or the make & model.
I’m sharing here one of my old testing flights.
you can see my HW info in the clip descriptions.
(it’s lower resolution 21:9 flat panel monitor)
But it might be not the one you wanted to know bcz no cockpit veiw mode.
I’m sorry that there’s no beautiful cruise ships any more in the discovery flight of Naples,
now there’re very ugly machine generated ships instead 
35“ 21:9 (3440x1440) ASUS Z35P predator.
The only shots i had on my phone, can send more specific ones upon request later.
Default zoom 50% and camera angle set to wide view in msfs.
I have an ultra wide monitor but dont use it i play on VR…cant go back to a monitor
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The game doesn’t have an FOV slider. It uses a weird camera system where the FOV changes when you zoom in or out.
So when using the default position in the pilot’s seat, the sides are a little stretched.
But getting a widescreen monitor is still worth it I think.
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I bought a 44” (?) super-duper-widescreen monitor (essentially equivalent to two, 27’s) specifically for MSFS and used it once… because I found VR.
Makes for a pretty cool Minecraft monitor for my son, though. 
Well, here’s a screenshot from an odd duckling, the Ilyama G-Master Red Eagle GB3461WQSU, as they call it… it’s a 3440x1440 “ultrawide” flat 75/144hz 21:9 34inch monitor, which, when i first got it, burned my retina on the non-powersaving mode as it was just thát much brighter than the previous monitor here in my pretty well darkened mancave. But anyways… here’s the requested screenshot:
i’m running flightsim at 1/3 fps (25fps) on a gtx 1080… (yeah, 4070ti inbound soon-ish)
(Edit, Well, it doesn’t help that the forum here is downsizing the resolution… didn’t think about that, lol)
Hmm… here’s a better alternative… i’ve set the pictures to be downloadable, just scroll down, click on one of the screenshots so it pops out, then to the top right, there’s 3 dots, hit that and you’ll see the “download button” appear… you should get the original 3440x1440 screenshot that ways.
It feels like greenshot or flightsim is using some kind of blurring that i see in the screenshots, i dont notice that as i’m flying at all.
Anyways, good luck with the monitor pickings, it’s pretty hard to choose with all the different models, i’ve basically not played anything above the 75hz at all since i got this one. I wouldn’t have posted about this one if i didn’t like it. Just be aware that some graphicscards dont like 1440p. As for this monitor, it’s definatetely quite a bit step up from a 17"…then again, i upgraded from 17 to 21,5 to 24 to 27 and 34 through the years and every time it felt like the screen was MASSIVE the first few months… just keep your old screen as a possible secondary to have something else on, like little navmap.
Good luck and a good flight, Captain!
Steiny
My thanks to all who responded to my request.
The Samsung 49" 32:9 screenshot from wilco3563 was the most revealing for me. What was the zoom setting for this pic?
Just an FYI – you can simulate any aspect ratio monitor by switching to windowed mode and sizing the window however you want.
Don’t know for sure, but the still shot was likely at max zoom.
I threw to together a short vid on what you might expect at 5120x1440.
(120) Widescreen - YouTube