Basil
Basically what Tourist said...
If you're at >100 feet at any sort of decent speed in a fast jet if you apply power and pull back in any sort of meaningful way by the time you hit 30 degrees of pitch you'll already be well above 500 feet....
I think majority would agree that, although the question of being able to repeat things accurately is something different, especially if you then include a rolling element; and how is the DAE or FDD evaluating this 30deg pitch up, especially if you are off axis - how much pitch do you see when the aircraft is in plan view?
What you are then introducing is another problem. If 500 was truly planned and the aircraft has more than enough energy something subsequently goes badly wrong to burn all of that 500ft on the way back down......