The article goes through an unbelievably amount of fluff to just say that. Thanks for confirming my own read.

To be slightly more specific - training pilots that can train/certify other pilots.

Huh, yes, I was expecting this to be keeping gate allocations or something else weird (there was a certain amount of that early in the pandemic).

I mean, you can’t really practice barrel rolls with a planeful of passengers, can you?

There is probably a small market for people who would love to be passengers on that flight.

Barrel rolls, probably not.

You could fly in the "vomit comet" though and do 30 consecutive seconds of Zero-G.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduced-gravity_aircraft

Tell that to Tex Johnson:

https://youtu.be/Ra_khhzuFlE?si=MxkaSRaIYFvbGqil