Soft Field Takeoff
  1. Set 10 degrees flap.
  2. Elevator full up
  3. Taxi into the runway with minimum brake.

    4. No need to stop on the runway unless advised by the tower.

  4. Join the centerline. Apply full power. Check engine gauges.
  5. Release elevator back pressure as airspeed increases to attach the engine cowling to the end of the runway.
    6.

    If the other end of the runway is covered by the cowling, your nose is too high. You don’t need to keep nose very high. The purpose is to reduce the weight on the nose gear.

  6. After lift off itself, release back pressure to stay in the ground effect.
    7.

    Don’t push nose down. You will descend very quick. Look at the horizon and the cowling like you recover from slow flight. Pitch motion should be very slow.

  7. 67kt, Climb attitude.
  8. Positive climb, flap up.
    9.

    Flap retraction causes the nose to drop. Anticipate this and adjust control pressure to avoid this.

  9. Climb at 67(Vy).

Resume normal climb.