idg,personally speaking, I would be inclined to fire off an email to the FltTestDept at Airbus Toulouse with all relevant info and ask them for a definitive answer; not that you won`t get help on here, but it does appear there is a fundamental flaw somewhere, and it may well be `flattering to deceive`, with all those risks. It may be you have been operating using flawed info up to now, but much better to get the correct info from the `mouche du cheval` and consider it over a coffee in an armchair, than `on a dark wet night with 30kts across !`
Ed. Alternatively/additional to , you should contact your Certification Flt Test dept as well.This may seem as if you are `going behind backs`, depending where you are on the Company ladder ; personally ,a piece of authoritative paper is better than` your hat, my office, no coffee`, remembering that all rugs are attached to a big spring if you have to see the CP.I would hope you get the right answers..