Originally Posted by
421dog
“Rotating” in a single engine piston aircraft is commonly taught, but is a remarkably bad idea. A few extra kgs here or there can change ones whole perspective.
It’s pervasive, but it’s because the flight schools are teaching big-plane tactics to little-plane wanna be pilots.
”Levitation” in a little plane, is a much safer technique.
You're just substituting one word for another. Rotating simply means pitching up on takeoff from the nosewheel-on-ground attitude, that's it. Doesn't imply anything more specific about technique wrt. stick force, pitch rate, how much rotation is done before main wheel liftoff, etc.