Testing your glide. Are people doing this?

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ShawnD2112 wrote:

You may be right but there's something about having some power to work with.
I think that's why I enjoy the Pitts so much. It's not the same qualified statement
that CJ can make as an instructor, but it's my observation and, based on my
experience, I didn't really learn how to fly properly until I spent hours in
the same plane just practicing various kinds of maneuvers to see how it
performed. I hadn't really been talking about the difference between
renters and owners and my comments could only be speculative about other
pilots, but are based on my observations.

Now, you are talking a completely different animal.
Flying a Pitts is not the same as flying a spam can.
Flying unusual attitudes (aerobatics) is not the same as flying
standard Private Pilot maneuvers.
What you have learned is finess and coordination because your aircraft
demands it. The control sesitivity of a Pitts is multiple times, if not
an order of magnitude, greater than that of the average spam can.

"The airshow begins when the Pitts flairs to land." - Norm Crabtree,
Director, Division of Aviation, Ohio Department of Transportation
(retired)