X-Plane 10 transparent cockpit?

[NM Doug]

I have a pretty rudimentary computer setup, so I found the transparent cockpit option on X-Plane 9.x to be very helpful when looking at terrain, looking for traffic, or on approach - it actually provided me *more* realism with focusing back and forth between instruments and out the window.

With X-Plane 10, I haven't been able to get the transparent cockpit to work (it's been relocated to the key assignment section, but even assigning a key to "view/transparent cockpit" doesn't seem to do the trick). I haven't been able to find anything online on this, which leads me to think the problem might not be widespread.

I welcome any thoughts/suggestions! I'm running XP 10.04b1 on a Mac Mini OS X 10.7.2.

Thanks, all!
Doug

[NM Doug]

Update: I heard back from X-Plane support. They removed the transparent cockpit functionality from X-Plane V10 Oh, well.

I'm using a single 1920 x 1200 computer monitor, and the Cessna 172 panel takes up most of the screen real estate. For those of you with a similar setup, what are your best practices for looking outside for traffic or on approach - do you just use keys to go back and forth between panel view and outside/HUD view? Do you assign these views to buttons on a joystick?

- Doug

[Alex Stjepanovic]

I'm not on v10 yet, but I use a 3D cockpit whenever available.

[NM Doug]

Thanks for the suggestion, Alex - I hadn't really tried the 3D cockpit before, but I've spent some time fiddling with it and think it could work very well. I'm going to try a flight now to see how it goes.

- Doug