Don't ever use the sky pointer technique. After dozens and dozens of sucessful takeoffs with a V1 cut my check airman said just step on the sky pointer so I did and crashed. I went to my old way of just stepping on the rudder and using minimum aileron to keep us climbing properly. Mechanical flying isn't my idea of flying. What happens if you lose your sky pointer and that is the only way you can fix an engine failure. I know it won't work in a Lear 23. The new kids might find this helpful if all their automation keeps working. Us old guys don't care if the automation fails because we don't need it.