Running an 11.
Hi, Deere9670.
The angles/lines of sight are pretty similar to a D8R. It's just that 'cos everything's bigger on the '11, there is so much more space between the places you can see. Or, to put it another way, the same sight-blocking components on a D11, any D11, just block out that much more than a D8L, N or R. You get used to it fairly quickly, at least partly because they usually send D11's to play in bigger paddocks than D8's sometimes get to play in.
Then some clown might send you to run a D11R with a 25 foot by 10 foot coal blade. When you first get on the little jigger, you may feel that most of Los Angeles could be in front of that blade and you wouldn't be able to see it.
LOL.
Hope this helps.