Thanks for the clarification Skip. With all the professionalism I saw exhibited by the other flyers I didn’t think I was witnessing a normal event.

I can easily see how you would rather watch the turbines fly when they are out and park the prop job. I could spend all day doing that. The turbine flight is absolutely stunning and you can tell that many of pilots must have been pattern flyers in the olden days. Too bad pattern flying didn’t continue to evolve to look like the turbine flight, with super sized graceful maneuvers. It started evolve that direction but didn’t make it. The large graceful maneuvers have immense appeal to me and I think it would have been one heck of a spectator sport.