I would have done a pass over the runway with the gear out and have airport ground crew inform us about the status of the nose gear.
Written out of the rules in my last company. Rightly so, how much do you think the ground crew can see of the complicated machinery that is the landing gear going past at a few hundred feet and a couple of hundred knots even if it was day light and how accurately can they see of something is misaligned by maybe an inch, or whatever?
Did the have secondary indications for the gear?