And you can ramp up your amitions regarding the Pitts. S-2 is actually easier to fly than the S-1 and you don't need anything like a thousand hours to handle one. I've got 450 hours total, 150 of them are in my S-1. I had about 150 hours taildragger before getting into the S-1 but that was as much a matter of circumstances as anything else. Get lots of circuit practice in a taildragger and you should be able to handle a Pitts in probably 50 hours or so (at a guess). The S-1T is the real beast of the fleet and is probably best tackled after a fair bit of time in another Pitts.
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