although the flight test forum might be the best place to get a really good discussion going
Agreed .. but the need is for the non test community folk to get a handle on the problem .. maybe we should start a thread ourselves ? You a starter for discussion, Genghis ? I imagine that John F could wax lyrical for ages on the topic. If we could get a well-known TP with an impish smile from Mojave involved, I know that he is rather concerned about the problem.
Probably the greater concern is that the flying operations community "require" these imaginative techniques presumably in ignorance of the design and certification environment .. and the poor pilot in the street, knowing no better, puts him/herself regularly in the position of needless risk.
which doesn't do anything exciting.
Excitement is what overnights are for .. not aeroplanes .. unless you are in the experimental flight test game .. and then you spend a LOT of effort trying to avoid unexpected excitement .. and never without a means of stepping outside.