RE: Flying on the wing… A dying skill?
Dave, the question really isn’t why would you but can you?
An airplane is giving you everything it’s got and the grass really needs to be mowed, can you coax it off the ground at the last second at the end of the runway? Can you achieve the maximum rate of climb to safely clear an object when you KNOW there is no more throttle?
My son wasn’t advancing nearly as quickly as other people I was training, so I put a larger engine in that airplane. Now that it’s easier to fly, he’s advancing at a phenomenal rate. But did I really do him any favors?
Honestly, once the excitement of getting an airplane like that to a safe altitude is done, flying it bores me to no end.