The Complete Guide To Pre-Flight Checking A Cessna 172
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- Опубликовано: 20 июн 2024
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⚠ Please note that this video is intended for use in conjunction with professional flight training only. Do not attempt without adequate training from a qualified flight instructor.
As a prolific pilot and ardent fan of the Cessna 172, I find this highly informative pre-flight guide essential to both beginner and experienced pilots alike. The level of detail and clarity demonstrated by the instructor is exemplary.
Very useful but please in future turn the music down 😳
Thanks for the feedback - our more recent pre-flight check videos have the music lower
Great video, thank you!
Pitot heat can heat up the pitot tube really hot very quickly on some planes (like within 15 seconds of operation); so, a word of warning - do not grab it with the palm as it may cause blisters.
Great tip!
Magnificent. Thank you Captain.
Best instructional video. I watched it three times. Thank you sir!
Thanks so much - glad you liked it! Stay tuned for the pre-flight videos for our other aircraft, coming very shortly!
Thanks for my firs check up list. Congratulations.
This is so helpful thank you!
This is helping me a lot thank you for this video ❤
Am learning a lot here thank you
Fantastic to hear - thanks for your comment!
Nice videos. In addition to this another thing worth doing is pulling the plane slightly forward to check the tyre tread, as well as checking the condition of the wing struts
Thanks very much for the feedback - and those are BOTH really great suggestions for extra checking! 👏
Excellent preflight man
Thanks so much - glad you enjoyed it!
@@learntoflymelbourne Yeah I'm a big fan of everything aviation. Have watched so many checklists and so many Microsoft flight simulator videos
Awesome video, I was wondering if you could lower the music and possibly wire a mic. The audio isn’t the best. Thanks for the upload!
Thanks for the feedback - our more recent pre-flight videos have the music lower.
@@learntoflymelbourne @Gert I appreciate your feedback, and I'd like to second their notion about audio quality. That aside however, this is a wonderful detailed video! Thanks for your upload
@@Grimpy970 thanks very much! Audio is always a struggle on the tarmac with wind and engine noise, but we have certainly taken on board the feedback and have improved our audio capabilities for future videos. Thanks again 👏
Thanks very much for this video! Very nicely done and helpful to me in building a base of knowledge before commending flight training. I have a few questions. For the purposes of comfort and video clarity, shooting a video like this makes sense to do when there's no precip. However, there MUST be plenty of situations where the pilot is IFR rated and it's raining during the preflight. I would think that would make it challenging at the least to perform this operation and maybe even impossible to do certain parts well. For example, if you're looking up, whilst rain is hitting you in the face, how well can you see the 4 nuts that secure the flap's hinge assembly? I guess my 3 questions, which have to do with when you need to do a pre-flight with significant precipitation, are: 1) Are there ANY steps for which you are less strict about the "thoroughness" of it? 2) Does the exterior part of the pre-flight differ in any way and if so, how? 3) Do you bring 2 sets of clothes, one for doing the pre-flight and another for after you're done with the outside part? Thanks very much! (P.S.: I reckon if an IFR pilot frequently flies in "weather" it certainly helps to justify a hangar fee, eh what?)
@Clement Suen - Learn To Fly Flight Instructor Thanks so much for taking the time to answer my questions Clement. I’ve never seen anything like flying to compel one to learn from both the wisdom AND the mistakes of others. It’s pretty much impossible to ever stop learning, but that’s also a super cool aspect about flying. Thanks again for taking the time to provide those great answers!
I’m guessing they deleted the message, do you remember the answers to your questions?
Great question. But where is the reply?
@@RobertRheal Just saw your question Robert. I suspect Clement Suen deleted his own reply. It's been too long for me to remember the details of those answers, but I believe I recall him saying that there are no changes in the thoroughness of the preflight and I believe he intimated that if the weather is that challenging, even if one is IFR rated, perhaps they should reconsider flying that day. Again, I'm going off of memory from a year ago.
Also, I searched for his channel. I only found one channel named 'Clement Suen'. Assuming I found the correct person's channel, although he does follow some aviation channels, his only 2 videos that he personally has posted were 2 versions (hand-held and tripod shot) of the same performance of a band doing a cover of "It's My Life". Given the lack of any active posts about flying, there's a decent chance he's not even a pilot.
@@GeorgeRon Hi Ron. I suspect Clement Suen deleted his own reply. It's been too long for me to remember the details of those answers, but I believe I recall him saying that there are no changes in the thoroughness of the preflight and I believe he intimated that if the weather is that challenging, even if one is IFR rated, perhaps they should reconsider flying that day. Again, I'm going off of memory from a year ago.
Also, I searched for his channel. I only found one channel named 'Clement Suen'. Assuming I found the correct person's channel, although he does follow some aviation channels, his only 2 videos that he personally has posted were 2 versions (hand-held and tripod shot) of the same performance of a band doing a cover of "It's My Life". Given the lack of any active posts about flying, there's a decent chance he's not even a pilot.
great vid, but can you please re upload with lower/ no background music? this would be great. it makes it harder to understend what you say.
Thanks for your feedback. We'll keep this in mind for future videos.
Thanks for the video. Nice watch by the way (couldn't be better to wear a Breitling Navitimer).
Thanks so much - glad you enjoyed it! 👏
I check for fuel first before i do anything else
To maintain as much consistency as possible, we always train the pre-flight checks in the same order that is listed in the aircraft's POH. As pilots become more familiar with an aircraft, they do tend to develop their own slight variations on exactly what order they do things - we encourage our students to always use the checklist regardless of how well they know their plane though! 👏👏
How often do you perform this pre-flight inspection? It's called daily inspection, so I suppose you don't do all of it before every take-off when doing multiple flights a day?
Hi Sebastian - great comment! You are correct - this is really a "daily" inspection, so it is most crucial before the first flight of the day. Having said this, we like to complete a check this thorough prior to every flight - so this is the standard we train and follow for our pre-flight checks. We'd prefer our students to over-inspect rather than under-inspect, and the additional time doesn't have a noticeable negative impact on our flight scheduling.
If I am the 3rd pilot flying the aircraft today, how do I know if the first 2 did the preflight correctly? How do I know nothing has changed from the first 2 flights? How do I know there is sufficient fuel onboard?
Do the preflight. Maybe somewhat abbreviated based on prior use, but do a walk around to verify the aircraft is airworthy and paperwork is correct.
Question(s)...
[1] How much "resistance" is in the control column, and does it try to "self-centre" to a "neutral" position?
[2] If it does not "self-centre" then how do you know when the pitch and roll position of the control column is in their "neutral" position?
[3] If you have knowledge of any of the yoke controls available for PC flight sims which is the most realistic for C152/C172/C208/B350?
I have the Logitech G Flight Yoke System (formerly Saitek Pro Flight Yoke") and to me there is far too much "tension" and "resistance" when turning and pushing/pulling the yoke, making delicate movements nearly impossible - this is due to the "self-centring" springs inside which can not be providing a realistic experience but I've only ever flown ASK-21s and DHC-1 Chipmunks, and that was in the mid-1980s!!! So I have removed said springs and replaced them with some elastic bands that provide just a little resistance in the movement of the yoke and will very loosely return the yoke to its "natural neutral" position.
I appreciate that when in flight the force of air over the control surfaces will likely "force" the yoke into a "natural neutral" position. I just hope what I have done is actually making my yoke more realistic to that in a real C152, C172, C208, B350, so hope you are able to answer my questions.
TIA
You do understand that the video is made for IRL situation and not flight simming?
In the US, there is a fuel strainer valve to operate and sample fuel. I did not see this on this video. Are AU C172R's missing this item?
Hi Ried - there are a number of fuel drain points which are checked during the inspection of their relevant section of the aircraft. Check out 12:52 as an example :)
Great video. Please either drop the music volume or wear a mic. It is difficult to hear what you are saying at several points during this video.
If I had done a pre-flight check of the comments before typing, I would have discovered you have already addressed this issue. :)
Check, check and check again - if in doubt, ask someone else to check/confirm. My own mantra is 0fA + 0fS => 0fF (Zero assumptions + zero shortcuts => zero funerals). Just sayin'.
Excellent mantra! 👏
04:41 "Switches are all off" ... skips over the beacon light switch that is still on. 😆 Other than that, great video!
Beacon is typically left on regardless so that it can be noticed by anyone nearby when the master is on.
@@aaronfrick9880 I agree that leaving the beacon switch on is a good procedure. I was just mentioning that leaving it on should have been called out in the check, rather than saying "switches are ALL off" but leaving one switch in the bank on.
I know the video says on a Cessna but what do they do when the plain is huge and you can't move/reach parts of the plane.
Great question! On larger aircraft, the inspections are quite different from that of a smaller light aircraft. Many of the "harder to reach" items are inspected visually.
As someone who worked as a ramp agent for united, we also visually inspected each plane on arrival and before departure and notified the pilots of anything we saw.
Any potential inspection item that would cost more accumulated life time for everyone to perform that inspection should not be performed if that amount of time is greater than the amount of life time lost due to the fatalities incurred by no one inspecting that item.
Great video but the music is annoyingly load!
Why not just top-off the engine to 8 quarts of oil each time?
Hi, could you please re-upload with no background music? Thanks
We will have this available soon - thanks for the comment - we appreciate your feedback.
music drowns out the audio
The music is to loud
It would be better to hear and understand him without the music
Thanks for your feedback. Others have also made note of the audio level issue. We will look to fix it and re-upload this video at some stage soon.
Your static wicks need replacement lad
Not quite yet although it's getting there! We're lucky to have a fantastic and highly experienced on-site aircraft maintenance team to make sure our aircraft are always in great shape 👏
Bro you just checked bunch of stuff that are normally ok but bottom of your plane looks like there is oil splash not leak from engine. I hope you didn’t went for a flight before checking that as that’s really scary