TyroPicard: I agree with both your posts. What you say is, in my experience, industry standard. In typical PPRUNE fashion we will always have posters who " know the true way"!!
Cosmo has yet to explain just how he knows how close he can get to a tail scrape on takeoff using his peripheral vision. Despite quoting Airbus FTM then saying he has never flown one, he goes on to assume that cockpit cutoff angles are the same on all types as on his current type ( 738? )