Training Manual Cessna C172 | Issue date 01-11-2024 V6.0

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7

Objectives

Use the aircraft controls correctly to manoeuvre the aircraft on the ground at a speed appropriatefor the prevailing conditions and situation, following a selected path and stopping at a nominated point

Ground Exercise

Seat position is adjusted and comfortable

Once engine is warm, use enough power to overcome inertia

Test brakes after moving from parking position

Maintain safe taxi speed (fast walking pace)

Maintain the taxi line (yellow line through the student’s right knee)

Turn using the rudder pedals to steer the nosewheel

Wingtip clearance can be judged using shadows

Caution propwash from other aircraft

During taxi and turning, check instruments:

Taxiing

Left turn

Right turn

Look out

Scanning

Traffic 11 o’clock

Traffic 1 o’clock

Yoke right neutral

into wind

Yoke forward left

Yoke left neutral into wind

Yoke forward right

Yoke right neutral into wind

Stop by closing throttle and applying the toe brakes(never brake and use power at the same time)

Nosewheel straight and set parking brake

In no wind conditions, pull yoke during taxiing to relieve pressure on nose wheel

In wind conditions:

Steering

Braking