Okay, with the comments it makes more sense, but that's still an.. interesting choice of a launch. I mean I have no IR Tracker or anything similar but never had problems with looking up in an ED ship cockpit and find an opening xD And we had a pretty competent parking radar, which I assume is present in SC as well. So as much as I like to fling excrement at SC, this is more a pilot error then shortcomings of the flight model then. Or just really bad keybinds for looking around.
regardless if its the "right" or "wrong" way to start (always distracting from the actual problem and making it the users fault) it demonstrates how bad SCs flight model currently is by resulting in absolutely unrealistic manouvers and failing to provide a sense of mass or acceleration.
"Those aint the problem dude, you are just doing it wrong!"
....yeah.....