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Old 06-02-2005 | 02:43 PM
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Default RE: Plane fears

I'm glad I'm not the only one here. I too get the jitters a little on the drive out but its not bad.

Really, I'm not scared to fly this plane. I'm scared to death of the take off roll though. So many times I've heard people telling me "watch it, it can snap on take off" or "you really need full right rudder". Due to that, I can just see it in my head going crazy on take off. When I did take it off, the tail raised up so fast it scared me - more than I thought it really did at the time.

I have one instructor telling me to hit half throttle and just go get it in the air asap. Another one is about the long the scale roll out.
What do you guys suggest as far as A) The correct take off for this plane and B) Getting over this fear that I'm going to lose control of the plane on the rollout?

As some history - I've never lost control of a plane on take off but I have seen it happen a couple of times to others - once, a few people almost got hurt.