With equal time in both: the S2 is about 20% easier to land on a bad day than the S1 - from the back! On a good day with wind down the slot there is not much in it.
The S2 from the front is as close as you will get to simulation for the S1. The S1 is marginally easier than the S2 from the front.
Can you see where this is going? I mean the above comments, not the flare to touch-down phase!
After 6 hrs with Budd landing at a Łuck-off long/wide American strip, I had no problems putting my own S1S down on the shorter r/way at Leicester on my second landing. It wasn't a pretty landing but it was safe and didn't endanger me or the machine that I'd built.
Having said that, it is very rare these days when I need more than 300yds to put it down and stop it. That's 300 from the threshold. The very fact that more is available can be very useful. Take-off in the S1S - routinely airborne within 150yds.
The "avoid-bit" on landing is coming down the centreline unless you are at landing somewhere big - you just lose all clues, includingthe r/way! The most dangerous wind is a quartering tailwind - ie, it's 90 degrees across but occasionally kicks in from behind you - the extra float and increased g/s are good indicators, but if you are tired - these are easy to miss. Tired, well it is pretty easy to knacker yourself after a session of high G change maneouvers at the beginning of the season! Neg 3 to Pos 6 is a whole 9 G change and is best avoided till G-fit.
S1S - final at 90, last look over the hedge, 85mph
S2A - final at 90, last look over the hedge, 85 - unless heavy then 90mph
S2B/C final at 100/110 last look 90 unless 2 up then about 95+mph
The hardest thing to teach/educate IMHO is when to leave it alone and when you need to do something. That just comes with time on type, I guess. As most Pitts sorties are around the 20 minute mark, you do get to log your fair share of landings!
Michael - if you want to buy one, give me a bell and I'll help.
And a last point, it is highly unlikely that you'll get to fly your chosen one until you actually pay the money! So someone who is known to the owner might just be allowed to fly it!
Hope this helps
Stik