When learning proper takeoff procedures, one of my instructors always reminded me as we were lining up on the runway to advance the throttle smoothly and to feed in right rudder just as smoothly to counter the inherent swing of the left turning tendencies.
before feeding right rudder, would safely produce the desired effect.
Enter my new Aeroprakt A32 Vixxen. A bright yellow airplane that makes me smile to just look at it. I’d had a dozen or so takeoffs under my belt with her though always with a right hand seat co-pilot weighing slightly more than myself. The takeoffs were quick, with minimal ground roll needed as the Vixxen nearly leaps into the air to fly away. We joked that once I off-loaded the right seat co-pilot ballast, the plane might even levitate into the sky as half the weight would be gone. Ha, ha.!
Well, the day I lined up for my first solo takeoff in the Vixxen, I learned just how unfunny our chuckling would become as the joke was almost on me.
I was also very thankful that I not only had a long runway (always a good thing) but an extra-wide one too.
After all the proper pre-flight and tower calls, I was rolling onto the runway as smooth as could be. However, as I advanced the throttle, the memory muscle from those Piper and Cessna trainers took over and I smoothly and quickly advanced the throttle while waiting a beat to add right rudder. The Vixxen instantly leapt forward and to the left and before I could blink, she was headed to the far left side of the runway!