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by GekkePrutser 1502 days ago
This was a Cessna 208, not a 172. Possibly glass cockpit and definitely turboprop.

It would look more like this unless it has the glass cockpit of course:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/Cessna_2...

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I believe elsewhere in this thread it was confirmed to have the older gauges, and I don't believe in this example it makes a meaningful difference in the readability of the primary instruments.
can you even see out the front window with how low the seat is?
Yah. This is something that is always messed up in pictures of cockpits or flight simulators. The eye is pretty wide angle compared to any reasonable looking photograph inside a cockpit.

In the real world, when you sit up straight, you see just fine out of a tricycle gear airplane and see the runway ahead on the ground and the ground below you in the air. And then you slouch a couple inches and look down and have a great view of the bottom instruments.