Flighthappens, read carefully what I said, no mention of the Otoliths.
3. Why reconfigure, take off in your touch down configuration...
Yup should be a snap , a C172 from my memory wont climb with full flap out, as indeed most other marginal performance bug smashers are so limited.
Flap retraction close to the ground in an instrument climb out is getting close to test pilot stuff in my opinion, good for a student ?????? no way.