I was referred to this conversation by a friend so my comments are a
little late. I apologise for that.

Crash. I've read this thread with interest.

Peter Fanelli wrote:

Please stay away from your house. I don't know how
many times I've read accounts of families watching a
loved one die as a result of an accident while
showboating for people on the ground...

Bloody well said Peter! I couldn't agree more.

You said, in reply:

...and they were all conducted within the designated
training area. I just happen to live right under it.
No 'showboating' involved.

After you originally stated:

I was heading back over to where I live to do a few
steep turns over the house. I dropped down to about
2500 to do them, and was able to see the wife, kids
and Mother in Law all standing out in the street,
'checking out Dad!'.

If your description of what happened isn't "showing off" or "showboating"
then I truly don't know what is. You deliberately flew back to your home
to conduct your steep turns and then you deliberately descended to fly the
sequences at a lower altitude with your family out on the street
watching... "checking out Dad". Yet you have continually denied throughout
the course of this discussion that you *may* have made a mistake when it's
clear to the rest of everybody here that you did. The nature of your error
is perfectly clear.

You have probably got 1000 years and one can only imagine how many
thousands of hours behind the faces of the anonymous contributors on this
newsgroup, and here you are with 15 hours yourself trying to correct these
highly educated people who clearly have your interests at heart. Why else
would they reply?

With all due respect, you seem like an extremely stubborn young man. If I
might ask... are you a flight sim enthusiast? I get plenty of Boeing
pilots walk through the door of my flying school every day that have never
sat in a real aircraft but are already experts. I've noticed that a lot of
them fail to differentiate between what constitutes real flight time and
the world of make believe, and they generally have a bloated ego to
commensurate with the amount of pretend flying time they have on their PC.
The same group do learn the fastest and solo quicker but take a lot longer
to be good pilots.

Rob Ford said:

Does Crash post here to tell us how it's done, or to
learn better ways of doing it?

The posts written by Coop, Veritas, Marty and others
are providing young Crash with an education heÂ’s clearly
not getting in the classroom. HeÂ’s fortunate to have
people here who have taken it upon themselves to post
and teach him something. Some of these instructor types
are literate enough to say what some of us would love
to say if it were not for the technical fluency that
prevented it.

Agreed Rob. Thanks for passing on the link.

Crash, you have said that you're not going to post your lesson reports
anymore. I'm somebody that supports your decision not to 100%%. I think
that if you're not prepared to accept the advice from those here in the
manner in which it was directed, then you don't deserve their time or
feedback. You can't expect to post in any public forum and have people
shut up if they feel that you're doing something wrong, or if they feel
you're doing something unsafe, or feel you could be doing something better.