What's worng with this picture?

[EppyGA]

Posting this as seen on the Student Pilot Board.

i took 3 of my friends today in the rental piper archer. I was on a shorter runway and wanted to practice doing a short field takeoff. I havnt done one since i got my liscense. so i put the foot brakes down pushed the throttle to full sat for a moment and let go, with 2 notches of flaps down. Rolled down the runway and rotated at 49knots (what is recommended speed for this plane). The plane sluggishly liftedoff, gained little altitude and then came back down and touched the runway! I got nervous as hell and knew training time was over so i dropped a notch, lowered my departure pitch and we took off, ... thenslowly released the last flap at a higher altitude.

All three of my friends are biggers guys who weigh around 200lbs one of them 250. Was a shortfield takeoff NOT the best option given the additional weight? I never seemed to have a problem doing this maneuver with my shrimpy instructor 5 months ago.

Do people really just forget all the stuff they learn from training or just figure it was all for fun and they don't need it anymore?

 

[Jim Logajan]

(Is this a trick question? It's spelled wrong, not worng. )

I believe this is the whole thread:

http://www.studentpilot.com/interact/forum/showthread.php?39646-shortfield-takeoff-help

Not sure if the poster chose his avatar to indicate he is just monkeying around on that forum, trying to make a monkey of those who reply, or maybe just cosmic karma.

All I can say is that if he is for real and somehow managed to get a private pilot certificate then I would be terribly embarrassed if I couldn't. He also claims he has a college degree, but I've already discovered almost any hominid can earn a college degree (as long as one isn't too picky about field of study.)

P.S. According to other postings on that web site he earned his Private Pilot Certificate about 4 months ago (after allegedly failing his first check ride when he failed to use rudders to coordinate because his CFI never taught him that basic skill.) So he was a student illegally taking friends up for rides.