Doing what the airplane wants to do is good, Rob. The stick in the stomach is an exaggeration teaching technique. We are just making sure they get the point that they need to slow as much as possible. On the wheel landing I have them exaggerate the stick forward with full intention of dynamic proactive fore aft to find the position the airplane wants. Most new TW students think they can push the prop right into the pavement and use creeping fire rather than bracketing to find the right tail up position both with raising the tail on takeoff for acceleration and with raising the tail to wheel land. Coupled with too much airspeed to land, the delay sends them back into the air.

Your humble admission that there may be other ways of doing what the airplane wants to do is admirable, but some ways that sort of get the job done are inefficient. No big deal until we realize too late that we needed the quicker acceleration on takeoff or when we really wish we weren't going so fast on landing. Your ten gallon work on vegetables gives you lots of practice. For those with fewer iterations, instruction on greater efficiency can increase their safety. Default greater efficiency and even teaching it in flight schools is a long shot, but we can keep plugging away. While not an instructor, your vast experience in the efficiency area is most helpful. Most pilots don't realize that when they put a bigger piston engine or even a jet engine up front they also increase the size of the hopper. Loaded Ag planes will not almost hover out of ground effect like these light and high powered STOL airplanes.