Many thanks for all the replies, and especially to SN3Guppy.
Pure stick and rudder challenges (in peacetime ....long may it last); soaring, aerobatics and low level agricultural/surveillance/firefighting.
It strikes me that the arenas that most exploit the "True Freedom of Flight" are the ones that also make the greatest demands on pilot discipline.
SN3Guppy; How about a book? (with all that free time you have...yeah right!) I was thinking a sequel to Stick and Rudder by Langewiesche
"STICK AND RUDDER...in the weeds" by SN3Guppy and Friends.
TIM