on my first flight my instructor promised me that he would knock me out
if i didn't release the controls after he told me to

Mark Levin wrote:
On 14-Dec-2006, Stefan wrote:

What is the big F'en problem, here?

Yes, it ended well. But not everything's well that ends well. The
accident database is full of things which happened to end well 999 times
and ended as a statistic the 1000th.

There are several problems.

The only real problem I see with this flight was that no "I've got the
controls" protocol was worked out beforehand. Of course it probably was and
just omitted by the original poster. If I was letting a passenger take
controls during takeoff (something that I personally would not do), I would
want to make certain that if something happened where I needed to take the
controls NOW that the passenger would release the controls to me NOW.

I use to fly with a friend pretty often and would let him take controls at
altitude whenever he cared to. He knew that when I said "I've got the
controls" that meant hands in lap feet on floor.

I'm surprised the passenger had no issue w/right rudder during the takeoff
roll and rotation. Left turning tendency certainly isn't something most
non-pilots expect.

ml