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FSX Get camera position & angle using simconnect in C#

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I'm a seasoned C# developer, and the last couple weeks I've been playing around with simconnect, hoping to build a custom tool for a flight simulator I'm in the process of building.

What I really need is the ability to GET the current camera position and angle (x,y,z,p,b,h). I have successfully been able to use CameraSetRelative6DOF() to set the position and TransmitClientEvent() to change the zoom level, but I'm at a loss in figuring out how to read the position from the sim. My goal is to get these 6 values from the sim and be able to set them in a config file for a new camera configuration in the aircraft.cfg file.

Anyone know how to accomplish this?
 
A lot of people including myself have wanted to do this, so I'm 99.9% sure there isn't an easy way.
The harder ways I know of are :
1) Save the flight using Simconnect. Open the .FLT file via code, get the [Window.1] Current Camera GUID, match it to correct the [Camera.1.x] entry and read the saved translation and rotation values.
This method is fine for one off instances, but if you are trying to do continual updates, you are likely to induce stuttering in the Sim as it saves.
2) Implement your own camera control so you where the camera is all the time. Lots of work however.
3) Move to Prepar3D which carried on developing Simconnect, including reading the camera 6DOF among many other new features.
 
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