Dom2,
The stab scrape occurred on my fourth Phantom sortie, the other three having been in ‘C’ fit. I was trying to fly the technique that you describe but I was too slow in moving the stick forward to arrest the nose up pitch rate so overshot 12 deg pitch attitude. Lesson learnt!
212man,
I believe that it was just cg related as there was quite a long moment arm to the front station.