Eights on pylons
Eights on pylons or pylon eights is a ground reference maneuver where an aircraft is flown in a figure eight pattern around two selected points on the ground (the pylons). However, eights on pylons differs from similar maneuvers such as eights along a road, eights across a road, or eights around pylons in that the objective of eights on pylons is not to maintain a specific altitude and ground track, but rather to fly the airplane so the pylon remains fixed in place when viewed from the cockpit along a line parallel to the lateral axis of the aircraft.