Understanding Systems: Cessna 172 The Underlying Mechanics Behind the Yoke! with CFII Michael Colley

In this Princeton Flying School webinar, we discuss the systems of the Cessna 172! CFII Michael Colley discusses the wide array of internal systems in the Cessna and how they are all interconnected.
A few topics include:
Fuel system
Electrical system
Ignition system
Hydraulic system
Oil systems
And more!
Learn more about the aircraft you love and enjoy, gain a deeper understanding of what goes on behind the yoke!
Here's the link to the slides! docs.google.com/presentation/...

[@triplefoam]

Dude - A really great training video for the 172! Thank you putting it together, explaining the material so eloquently, and for sharing it with the world outside the original presentation group. To explain how a gyro works to others in a group setting, I take an old computer hard drives and plug it into a usb harddrive dock to spin them up. Once spun up, ask a student to remove a harddrive from the dock and pass it around to the other students. The look in their eyes as they struggle to handle the spinning harddrive is magical as they can feel and see the spinning harddrive's gyroscopic effect and instantly understand how a gyro can help them stabalize and/or orient their aircraft when flying.

[@benriggs9268]

Great video! Using it to help me study for my CFI checkride. One small correction- you mention that the fuel vent is to allow for expansion, which is true but not its main purpose. The main purpose of the vent is to allow air into the tanks as fuel is consumed to prevent a vacuum from occurring, which could lead to fuel starvation. The check valve in the vent is there to prevent fuel from coming out, but it does have a small weep hole that allows fuel in if it's submerged to prevent the tanks from pressurizing. Some aircraft also have vented fuel caps in addition to this for redundancy

[@ronsflightsimlab9512]

Thanks! Elevator connectivity is the one thing we can't live without. I'm going to share this with my students. I do IT as well!

[@chiefgroend4545]

The fuel vent main purpose is to allow air to enter fuel tanks, not fuel to escape. The vented caps are secondary to the fuel vent.

[@connorhale599]

Really good information for understanding the aircraft systems, very much helped me in my training.

[@StormChaser290]

Great job! Thanks for presenting. Appreciated seeing a shoutout for the Civil Air Patrol which owns the largest fleet of single engine airplanes in the USA!

[@owisagrom]

Content begins at 5:22

[@chevyimpala5651]

Really great presentation! Thank you!

[@greggorycannon6126]

Awesome easy to digest!

[@henrytin8753]

Appreciate this video so much! 🙏🏽

[@austinbrown132]

Wow small world, I’m an audio engineer working on CFI. Great video, will be showing my future students

[@alkei_i_am]

Very nice explanations

[@victorcovarrubias3606]

Amazing video brother. Thank you God bless.

[@lindsayoliver5533]

Thank you so much 🥹

[@fdfnfgnjfdjfjfk1436]

Excellent

[@Paul-by4xj]

Awesome 👍 thanks

[@cabecadealho1]

Nice video!! very well explained actually 😎Next video go through the electrical system of the Boeing 737 ahah

[@ghclutton]

As an instructor, when you do or say something, it must be correct... My critique is that a more succinct outline and bullet-points be written and followed. At times, the discussion strayed or got l-o-n-g. If you are going to go in-depth on the workings or physics of a system, please research before creating similes that are, frankly, incorrect (eg., the alternator/ battery function and operation description). Although it is nice to give a deeper context of a system for the student to relate to, it would be better to leave it out than create an erroneous understanding.