"Being able to do something stupid"

Hovering is stupid? I hope I misunderstood your point with that post. Hovering and torque rolling are possibly the most difficult maneuvers to perform with an plane and I find it hard to call it stupid. If you can't do it, don't like it or find it aggravating thats fine, but it's not stupid.

I agree that there are times to do it and times not to. For the most part I fly alone or with another pilot that I know. I always will make the other pilot aware that I'm going to be flying over the runway. On occasion, I have hovered or TR right in front of another pilot, on accident. Its hard to bail out on one thats going so well. I will always go over to the other pilot and apologize for flying in front of them like that.

For the most part, I will do my hovering late in the day when noone is flying.

Airplane Etiquette. It goes a long way.

BTW, gyro's are cheating. Personally, I don't cheat.