Skyhawk 172/Cutlass 172
Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Commercial; Flight Crew Flight Instructor
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 81; Flight Crew Total 318; Flight Crew Type 318
Other / Unknown
Ground Excursion Runway; Inflight Event / Encounter Loss Of Aircraft Control
General Flight Cancelled / Delayed; General Maintenance Action
Aircraft; Human Factors
Right after lift off; something felt different than normal. Airplane yawed to the left. As I went to apply right rudder; I felt no response from the aircraft at which point I decided to abort the takeoff; made the call for 'my controls' and landed the airplane off the runway. During the entire time I tried to apply right rudder but didn't feel that response from the aircraft as the left yawing tendency continued until the aircraft came to a stop.
C-172 Instructor reported a rejected takeoff due loss of directional control at liftoff resulting in a runway excursion.