Straight and Level Flight on Cessna 172 – Private Pilot Licence training.
Straight and Level Flight is mandatory exercise for Private Pilot Licence’s training program in Canada according Transport Canada.
Unfortunately during initial climbing I occasionally turned intercom recording off 🙁 To prevent it in the future I use Lock mode on my recording device.
Video
Chapters: “Straight and Level Flight on Cessna 172”
- 0:00:00 Radio: Initial contact with Ground control of St Hubert airport
- 0:04:40 An info about taxiing speed on Cessna 172 (my flight instructor explains it)
- 0:12:51 We are waiting in line for take-off
- 0:16:58 Hold short, RWY 24L
- 0:18:15 Radio: Line up and wait
- 0:19:10 Radio: Clearance for take-off and take-off
- 0:22:31 I occasionally turned off the intercom recording device 🙁
- 0:30:20 Radio: St-Jean-sur-Richelieu controller demanded for changing heading due to an aircraft on approaching (dash line in the picture below)
- 0:32:06 How correct to release flaps on Cessna 172 + pilots’ mistakes about flaps on low level altitude.
- 0:37:04 How to keep straight heading by using two visual points
- 0:34:49 Level flight – Cessna 172 trimming
- 0:39:15 Be careful, beyond this lake is United States 🙂
- 0:40:04 Going home
Below is the GPS track that was recorded during the flight
Other publications about PPL trainings:
PPL Training on a Cessna 172: Attitudes and Movements
Aircraft spin and spiral dives | 360 video VR
Flight for Range and Endurance
Cessna 172: Turns
Cessna 172: preflight inspection (2 videos)
Flying circuits in a Cessna 152
If you have any questions, don’t hesitate – ask in comments.