One of the most distressing things a student pilot can do (from a CFI’s perspective) when they are learning to fly is to apply full power, then grab hold of the yoke or stick with both hands and yank it back during the takeoff roll. In a light training aircraft—I’m talking the single-engine Cessna, Piper, Diamond, Cirrus, various vintage designs—you do not, I repeat, do not need two hands on the control wheel for takeoff. You really don’t. That’s only for bad TV movies.
Instead, keep one hand on the yoke or stick, and the other on the throttle during takeoff just in case you have to abort—like when that deer runs onto the runway or goodness forbid, there’s another aircraft, or a car or something else on the runway and you are heading towards it. Get that power to idle and stop.
