Yes, those pilots who are current and have the touch for sensing the condition of a aircraft are recognized by their fellow brothers as qualified.

Never having the horsepower to perform such T/O displays as described by Bob, it was my avenue of choice to display what I thought to be above average skills on landings.

Over the wires it was time to perform full slips off each wing and flair exactly over the fence and be stopped on the numbers.

The benefit was that I didn't have a long taxi back to the run up area....
i.e., I'd cut in front of the other pilots who'd used up all the runway to land.

So the :10 minute circuit around the patch got a boost with shorter taxi's and more T/O and L's at the high rate of $10/ hr wet.

Where oh where have those days gone....