Exactly.....re-read the posts carefully!!!!!!!! That technique of full backstick is not anywhere in the manual and for all we know could be resulting in worse TOR and worse TODR!! ITCZ is right in all of what he says. Plues the seminole is a fairly poor performer really and to add to that with a flap 25 take-off!
And i quote my 1978 manual page 4-19 (revised july 24, 1981
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The performance shown on charts will be reduced by uphill gradient......rough or grassy surface, OR POOR PILOT TECHNIQUE"
I guess if it works for you...
but from my experience it does leave me thinking riiiight, cant you ask your instructor or whoever showed you this if it was a soft field technique that they use?? by all means on a soft field mayb about half to three quarter backstick when you are gettign the aeroplane moving ... maybe this is why you could feel the nose wheel rising and wanting to fly as it was just coming out of the soft field
