fscott:
Have you adjusted your views? If not do the following:
Get into a 47, depress the hat button to look straight back. While keeping the hat-button depressed, use the arrow keys and pgup/pgdn keys (NOT the ones on the numeric keypad) to move your viewpoint around. When the view is at a place you like, press f10 and it saves that viewpoint.
When I do this in the 47 I can move the viewpoint so that I get a good view of the vertical stabilizer.
Hooligan