Now with having that said what advantages does a "pattern craft" have over my 3d profile plane? can they hover?
I have heard helicopters do that quite well :-)
At a practice session before the F3A Pattern world champs at Pensacola in 2000 I saw Sean McMurtry (US team alternate) torque roll up and down the run the runway with his Prophecy. No big deal he was going to the TOC that year so probably needed the practice. That was before the 3D thing got going.
Actually if you point a trainer into a strong wind it will stay there all day. Does that count as a hover too??? :-)