The couple times I’ve flown with EA the pilots’ military background showed. They landed like they were trying to stick the gear ten feet deep in the tarmac. Passengers? What f#@+ing passengers.
Exactly! Full throttle steep climbs, corkscrew descents. Fun to watch, don’t want to be in the thing.
Flew a Continental into a WV. Airport once. Don’t recall the airport, but they shaved off the top of a mountain and put a strip on it. Anyway, the pilot had to be Navy, the way he flew through the mountains in weather and then stuck the landing.
I truly enjoy professionals doin it right.