"William W. Plummer" wrote:

When I do, I will insist on practicing further out in central MA, or over the

ocean, etc as not to disturb people, even if I have to pay for a bit more
flight time to get out and back.

That's just plain stupid.
You want to practice over an area where you have good depth perception and
discrimination of relative motion. You don't get that over open water. Just
one of the reasons seaplanes crash on glassy water landings. Can you tell the
difference between 6 foot swells and wind blown whitecaps from 300 feet?
Aerobatic maneuvers are flown by reference to landmarks, not compass headings.
Your head has to be out of the cockpit, not inside.