Max Conrad said he used this technique in a PA-24 Comanche in setting an eye watering distance record of 12,341.26 km (7,668.50 mi) - Casablanca - Trinidad - El Paso - Los Angeles- non stop of course.
Or it may have been his record flight in a PA-30 Twin Comanche - 12,678.83 km (7,878.26 mi) Cape Town - St Petersburg FL.
It is written about in the biography by Sally Buegeleisen - Into the Wind, The Story of Max Conrad. An interesting read.