Why do pilots say “rotate” when taking off, also some say it when lowering the nose during landing?

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Why do pilots say “rotate” when taking off, also some say it when lowering the nose during landing?

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I’ve never heard of it being used for landing but it’s the term that denotes when the pilot starts raising the nose of the aircraft during take off. Take off is the most dangerous part of a flight and it’s important that both pilots are communicating with each other and are in complete sync so that if anything goes wrong they can immediately start taking measures instead of scrambling to communicate and assign tasks.

And it’s called that because the plane does rotate, just not in the axis we would typically think intuitively when we think of a plane rotating.