so I'm in the extremely long home stretch (might be a stretch to call it the home stretch just yet...) of a 3+ year RV-10 build. I'm having fun building, but during that time, I've not had an aircraft to fly, so the flying has suffered greatly. Over the last couple years, I've flirted with the idea of buying a tandem seat aircraft (cause I want one anyway!) to fly around. I'm looking at 8's, 4's, but leaning toward a Rocket... but I'm a fairly low time pilot that's never flown anything faster than a Cessna. I'm smart enough to know that I'm stupid enough to do something dumb in an aircraft that's too advanced for me, but it also occurs to me that knowing that is half the battle. So is it ridiculous for a 200 hour Instrument rated pilot to consider buying and flying a Rocket? If not, what steps would one take for training to make this a safe endeavor? I understand that transition training for RV-4 flying is done in a 6 or a 7. Same for a Rocket? Does the extra power and weight of the 540 in a Rocket make it much more challenging to fly? Someone talk me off the ledge!
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