Ya, its hard to get the Wide open field view on a puter screen. On G2 there is a setting under "View" that says something like "see ground at all times". I assume that G3 has this setting as well. In the hobby store I could only change to this setting once the plane was picked out, on the screen and ready to go but there may be an other way to change it. With this set, you can always see the the plane and the ground so you at least have an idea how high you are. This should help you a bit. Problem I had, at least in the stores G2 was that when I picked a new plane, I had to go back to view and set it again. Maybe there is a way to set it as default.