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Your 7 looks great though and is a real motivator for me to do a good job on mine as well.
It'll make your life much easier. You just won't get a good looking pivot to the right. You can see how the plane just sorta hung there until it started falling sideways and the relative wind flopped the nose toward the ground. The Pitts won't hammer to the right at all with full power. As mentioned, get some ground critiquing so you can learn how the plane feels at the precise moment it's time to pivot. This is probably the hardest thing to initially learn about the hammer...and the cues are very aircraft-specific. Some airplanes will buffet a bit at a certain vertical airspeed. Most pilots in high-performance planes gauge the timing by the amount of aileron and right rudder it takes to control torque roll and slipstream yaw as vertical speed slows. By the time you reach a certain amount of deflection, you know it's time to pivot. You just need to learn what it is for your plane. It's a very consistent method once you get a feel for it. As you probably already know, the ASI is pretty much useless! Have fun.
