I have been emailed this. The originator didn't want to post it themselves, so I undertook to.
Comments, anyone?
I was doing some flying with a very knowledgeable, capable and
experienced and somewhat 'strong' instructor. I'd done some decent
flying, and things were ok, apart from a nagging feeling that nothing I
said was being taken account of and I should just shut up and get on
with the flying, than get the heck out before my confidence got blown
apart.
Anyway, on a shortfield takeoff (in a twin) I noticed a really marked
pitch-up tendency right after calling airspeed alive about 50 or so. My
first instinct with plenty of runway remaining (5000 feet, 3000 greater
than accelerate stop distance - hope I am correct on that) was to close
the throttles and stop, and I started doing just that, just enough for
the engine pitch to change ...
However, as the take-off definitely looked normal, I REPRIORITISED (very
fast) and can remember reassessing the risk as fairly llikely that my
instructor WOULD just re-open the throttles and force me to continue ...
and rather than moving them any further closed and potentially getting
into a fight, and maybe leading to a problem with too much speed, too
low and running out of runway :-((, I just tweaked them back open and
continued, having to hit the trim pretty fast with a few foward swipes
just to have the plane flyable at liftoff.
Dunno if this is hugely dramatic as a training incident, but it shook
me a little, as my PIC sense had been battered enough to do something I
would not have done if I was really in command.
Feel free to flame me, or point out my mistakes ...
(one of which was my failure to notice the u/s trim indicator had
become displaced forward, which could have been noticed by making sure
it was centred on getting out of the aircraft to do the external
preflight then looking for excessive down on the servo tab on the tail
...)