Originally Posted by
TonyWilliams
If nothing is done, except advance the engine power to take-off thrust, the airplane would just roll off the end of the runway at a very high speed. Bad day.
This is not correct at all! I don't know who you fly for in Nigeria. My guess is that if you are in Africa you busted training somewhere in the USA(or more than one here). The fact is that if the aircraft is trimmed correctly and you have enough runway almost any plane will fly with no control input. I know for a fact that a crj-200 will rotate on its own and fly away on a runway as short as 7500 feet. I have done this before.