Originally Posted by
indyaachen
Ooops ... my mistake. For Piper, it was 50 air speed alive, 60 take off, 70 climb ...
However, my question is about holding the control column back. Is it something specific to Robin?
Looking at your responses, it seems like a common technique taught for all the aircrafts. Is that so?
Holding the stick back is normal. But fully back for taxi etc is fairly universal. You may not wish to try that for take off in all aircraft. For instance in the Europa it can kill you! Stick control needs to be appropriate as soon as you are moving. (BTW the full forward bit sounds down right wrong to me.)
However I move the stick forward quite a bit on every take off. But I'm flying a tail dragger. If I had stick full forward to that speed I would not get airborne as my prop would be digging the runway up. Also full back for more than about 3 seconds would result in a rapid lift off followed in a few seconds by a crash.