Don't know how I quite ended up here...
But this had me intrigued. So I thought a quick way to see if its just down to the telephoto lens is to try it on MS FS200x. Setup the t/o paused at the right point after wheels off and moved the spotter a/c to the right place and BINGO. Worked like a dream.
On zoom in I've recreated the picture, on zoom-out everything looks normal (and angle of rotation of the 744 is normal - approx 10-12 degrees)
Now I can take some screen shots to show this, but don't have the webspace to host them (or then know how to get them on here) so if anyone is still bothered pm me and I send them to you.
PS I was lucky enough to rent & fly round the Socal area a couple of years ago, including over LAX - the views are truly fantastic