Inside a Single-Engine Aircraft | How a Cessna 172 Works

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0:00 Intro
0:14 Main structure
3:05 Powerplant
6:34 Fuel system
8:17 Control surfaces
12:17 Landing gear
15:14 Cockpit
19:54 Lights and electrical system
21:53 Outro
Join us on an amazing journey as we explore the intricate mechanisms hidden within a single-engine aircraft, specifically the iconic Cessna 172. In this video, we'll go deep into the heart of aviation engineering, utilizing cutting-edge 3D models and animations to show components in detail. From the propulsion system to the control surfaces, I'll explain almost everything about small single-engine aircraft. Whether you're a seasoned aviation enthusiast or simply curious about the marvels of flight, this immersive experience promises to enlighten and inspire. Strap in and prepare for an unforgettable adventure into the world of aeronautics!
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@Joyplanes Ай бұрын

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@czecher Ай бұрын

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@ArchieTabajonda Ай бұрын

thank you for this

@rodolfocastillo2821 Ай бұрын

Felicitaciones. Yo apenas llevo 25 horas 😢

@ElioSch1423 Ай бұрын

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@user-pb1io2fg1v Ай бұрын

ษศษษฒศ@@czecher

@MrThescopel Ай бұрын

As a flight instructor for 11 years, this is the best video I have ever seen to explain an airplane in details. Congratulations!

@gsus3890 Ай бұрын

100%

@nazim194 Ай бұрын

Perfect

@yashpatel2345 Ай бұрын

flight instructor for 11 years still learning hats off, I am student pilot right now

@manifold1476 Ай бұрын

I'm sorry to hear your life has been so impoverished. You have my sympathy.

@Lysteez Ай бұрын

agreed

@AviatorGM Ай бұрын

I'm a former CAD designer. I can attest, a TON of work went into making this video. This is top notch 3D design. Excellent work! Thanks much for the education.

@manifold1476 Ай бұрын

Too damn bad some effort wasn't put into the *SO CALLED* narration of the video. It might have been worth listening to.

@AviatorGM Ай бұрын

@@manifold1476 I heard a narration. Basic stuff, but good.

@po1ly414 Ай бұрын

Excellent video, I’ve got 300 hours in the skyhawk and basically everything was perfect. Amazing work

@pilot_in_commend Ай бұрын

I second it. I have over 300 hours in 172s so I have nothing to add or correct.

@shockysocky5396 Ай бұрын

@@pilot_in_commendI third it. I have just about 1000 hours in light single engine aircraft, and 700 of them are in the Cessna 172S so I didn’t see anything to correct if I really have to add something, then it’d be the fact that he could have explained the vacuum pump just a little bit more, but hey, you don’t get a lot of time to fit everything in for a KZfaq video, so I get it. Good luck!

@Joyplanes Ай бұрын

Yes, the vacuum pump would've taken me some extra work but again, there are many details missing, like the fresh air intake to the cabin, how the magnetos work, a detail view of the trim mechanism and the Yokes and how they work with chains, etc. it was going to make the video also too long and I would still be rendering :). Appreciate the response of the community.

@user-fl2xj5ry9o Ай бұрын

I have 71 hour's, and this is awesome!

@Jeffopar Ай бұрын

If you want to get super picky the firing order is incorrect. The lycoming O-360 is 1-3-2-4.

@aerozg Ай бұрын

As a UX/UI and 3D/CAD designer, and also currently a PPL student, i can truly appreciate the utterly and completely insane amount of effort that went into creating this video. From setting everything up in Blender, to animating the views, cameras, rendering, exporting, writing the copy, recording the voiceover and syncying it correctly with the video - and these are just the general tasks - to then sharing it FOR FREE on KZfaq! 🤯🤯🤯 Thank you!! I will check the Pilot Institute, i hope they are EASA certified because i live in Europe. The materials i am currently using for my PPL classes leave a lot to be desired. They are just simple PDF files with minimum graphic explanations. I am a visual learner and explanations like these will help me understand thing MUCH better. Thank you again, this is brilliant!

@christiaangrobbelaar3338 Ай бұрын

It is indeed. What type of software and program are used to create these type of videos and animation? On the institute videos are some good animation also of class airspaces. How was this animation done? Christiaan from South Africa. Pilot also

@simpilot001 21 күн бұрын

@@christiaangrobbelaar3338you could do it all in blender, it’s open source so it’s free. You need a decent computer, but it’s the single greatest free tool in this field and there is a ton of tutorials

@kzmechanic Ай бұрын

I went school 3 years to learn all that. In 24 minutes you resume it all. Excellent video

@Dont_Think_Do_Films Ай бұрын

Should have done part 61

@thecomedypilot5894 Ай бұрын

@@Dont_Think_Do_Films Me personally, I'm fine learning this at an institution. I only need 1,000 hours for the airlines, and I am a much more competitive candidate.

@jimm9157 Ай бұрын

@@thecomedypilot5894 It doesn't make you a better candidate.

@thecomedypilot5894 Ай бұрын

@@jimm9157 Yes it does… it most certainly does. You jealous or what?

@jimm9157 Ай бұрын

@@thecomedypilot5894 I'm not jealous I'm just stating a fact. 141 doesn't make you more competitive. They just want you to think that so you spend more money.

@AlexGearon Ай бұрын

I’m a pilot and have done most of my training in 172s. Anyone working on ANY certificates in a 172 should watch this. I consider myself knowledgeable and still have never been able to understand systems as in depth as I’m able to after watching this video! Kudos!

@ryanbagaason Ай бұрын

This is the overall most informitive video on a C172 I've ever watched

@scottfranco1962 Ай бұрын

I suspect this just became a standard part of training at flight schools. Good job.

@ArmaGuyz Ай бұрын

No he has a disclaimer that strictly prohibits its use at any flight school.

@scottfranco1962 Ай бұрын

@@ArmaGuyz Errr... why?

@zioles66 Ай бұрын

@@scottfranco1962 It's his property, he decides. no whys need to be asked

@WisemanMr90 Ай бұрын

First time on this channel. While I was watching this video, I've felt like I was watching a Discovery Channel program. Absolute monumental level of work and such a simple, interesting and informative result. I've had my eyes glued to the screen all the time like a small child.

@ModelBuilders Ай бұрын

Really impressive video. I work as an aircraft mechanic I (not alone) maintain about 15 172s and 40 152s that’s my day in day out. You got this pretty much spot the heck on man. Couple little details here and there but this is pretty accurate. I’m not going to nit pick because this is a really good and informative video. You only can notice things that are off if you stare at them all the damn time. 10/10 impressive!!!

@eclectichoosier5474 Ай бұрын

I only saw one factual mistake. (About fuel injection.) For a video like this, that is truly impressive.

@ArmaGuyz Ай бұрын

So I take it your Training videos back in 144 were also from the 70s and understand just how badly the AMT schools could use this. We are watching material from when I our Instructors went through School 20 years prior and that's ridiculous.

@khorquinn135 Ай бұрын

As a flight instructor at a cessna pilot center, ill be showing this to my new students! great job!

@eclectichoosier5474 Ай бұрын

Very good video. You got all the basics spot-on. One thing that might be different from what you showed would be that on newer planes, they put the landing and taxi lights on opposite wings. In much older 172s, they may have the landing light on the nose, under the propeller. One thing that is slightly inaccurate is that the fuel injection system does not use electronics to control fuel flow. The pilot is in complete control of air and fuel. The system is pressurized and a constant stream of fuel is injected into the manifold, but only sucked into the cylinder when the valve is open. The electronics are only used to monitor fuel flow and report it on the display, so the pilot can adjust as necessary. The engine can run even if the electrical system fails completely. (You covered that part correctly when talking about magnetos.) A minor quibble is that you call the control cables "wires." The cables are made of wires, but they are multi-stranded, like steel ropes. Even if a few wires break, you won't lose any control, and in fact, having a few wires broken in a cable is acceptable, depending on how many, and where they are broken. (I realize that is outside the scope of the video, but if people think it's a single "wire," they may get the impression that if one breaks, the plane could lose control.) Finally, while 100 octane Low-lead fuel is standard, many engines allow the use of unleaded fuel, some as low as 91 octane. (Alcohol is not allowed to be blended into the fuel. Some engine manufacturers allow a tiny amount, but you cannot use the 10% ethanol fuel from common gas pumps.) 100LL is still standard because a lot of older engines require it, and keeping different grades of fuel in stock is very expensive for airport owners. Again, outside the scope of the video, but people may find it interesting.

@patricksawyer9779 Ай бұрын

Gonna have to correct you on the fuel injectors... most fuel injection systems in general aviation use are mechanical units, with little to zero electronics involved. There’s some flow rate and pressure sensors, but those are used to drive gauges in the cockpit. Fuel metering is driven by a fuel servo mounted in place of the carburetor and uses mechanical, pneumatic, and fuel pressure forces to determine how much fuel is delivered to the injectors. Said injectors are continuous flow units which deliver fuel all the time to the intake manifold just before the intake valve, but it is not atomized for use in the engine until the intake valve opens. There’s some interactions there that I understand the concept of, but have trouble putting into text without an image to help explain.

@aryanterror88 Ай бұрын

@@miporschethe Continental IO-360-KB engine in the newest model can do 195hp

@eclectichoosier5474 Ай бұрын

The flow rate is a pressure sensor. A clogged injector can actually indicate a very high flow rate because the pressure goes up.

@filakyle3663 Ай бұрын

This is exactly what student pilot shall see at very begining of his training. It is just so perfectly made to understand. Best video about this I had seen so far.

@joelramirez2846 Ай бұрын

Have had my PPL since 2015. I consider myself a visual learner and even though I’ve read material on the systems of this planes and how things work on them I still didn’t understand how certain systems worked until watching this video. Thank you so much for the time and effort you’ve invested to provide us viewers with such great material!

@devinjones9614 Ай бұрын

as a skyhawk pilot myself, i found this very informative and thorough. good job keeping your facts right!!!!

@Joyplanes Ай бұрын

Much appreciated!

@wannabepilot9624 Ай бұрын

This might be the only video that so many pilots aren’t criticizing. Excellent job on the video. Highly recommend to student pilots!

@michaeljohn8905 Ай бұрын

As an A&P this is just great. Thank you.this in my opinion is one of the best airplanes ever made. It has trained more People than any other trainer around the world. It is a legend in the aviation world.

@NIcholasLiddell-im5pn 7 күн бұрын

I have been a flight instructor for over 30 years and your video is the best I have seen and would be an excellent video to show a student pilot before they get too far into the syllabus. I can see the amount of time that you have put into producing this video, but its technically spot on with excellent graphics! Very well done!

@vintubeable Ай бұрын

This video gives a complete idea in a nutshell, about the construction, working and controls of a Cessna 172, the most popular single engine aircraft. Thanks for the efforts in bringing out in a multimedia presentation for a clear understanding.

@byronhenry6518 Ай бұрын

Thousands upon thousands of airline pilots got started right here in a Skyhawk, including myself. I miss it. I’ll have to go rent one of these someday and see if I still got it! Manually flying an airplane low and slow is fun.

@hermanfeeblebottom5002 Ай бұрын

This is a very well done description of this aircraft; one of the best I’ve seen. The creator offered one mistake, however, having to do with the pitot/static system and how it measures airspeed. Air doesn’t flow into the pitot tube, strictly speaking. Instead, as the aircraft moves forward, the pitot tube senses the pressure of the air impinging from directly ahead and compares that with the static ambient pressure it senses from the static tube. The difference in pressure works on a bellows and crank mechanism in the airspeed indicator to display the aircraft’s airspeed, or IAS. IAS must be corrected for altitude (i.e. outside air pressure that varies with the airplane’s height above sea level) and temperature (an indirect measure of air density) to yield true airspeed (TAS). Often there is a little sliding scale in the airspeed indicator (ASI) that the pilot can adjust according to the outside air temperature (OAS) to give a direct reading of TAS.

@Joyplanes Ай бұрын

Thank you for the correction, indeed it doesn't make sense that the air "flows" but the pressure created by the speed is what's measured as you said. What I wanted to show is that the pipe where this pressure is retained goes to the respective instruments.

@kuckoo9036 Ай бұрын

Noticed that, too. Figured such a description probably goes beyond the scope of of this video, which is excellent. Indeed, you can make an entire video just on the pitot-static system and the associated instruments. One can go into quite a bit of detail just on how the instruments themselves work, with the gyros, diaphragms, mechanical linkages, etc.

@andrewlalis Ай бұрын

@@kuckoo9036 ERAU has some fantastic videos about the pitot-static, gyroscopic, and vacuum instruments.

@eclectichoosier5474 Ай бұрын

Well, if we're being technical, it flows in.... a tiny bit. Then stops. I'm more concerned about the size of the hole that was rendered into the tube in the video. It looks like a pitot from a 737 :)

@Lively_1185 Ай бұрын

As a beginner learner pilot, this was very helpful and well done. Such impressive work.

@Joyplanes Ай бұрын

I really appreciate your support, I wasn't expecting this. Thank you.

@danitodanny Ай бұрын

Im in A&P school and this video sums up a lot of what I've learned in classroom, more in depth. Incredible video.

@diego.silverio Ай бұрын

Best Cessna 172 video I've ever seen! Actually, don't remember watching a more complete explanation video about any aircraft like this one. Wish you much success and thank you a lot for this masterclass. Congratulations!

@humphreychanakila144 14 күн бұрын

This gentleman makes the best teacher in my entire life. how wish had access to him one on one.

@billyrowe0064 Ай бұрын

What an amazing video. The engine section really can be applied to any vehicle engine. I don't think I've ever watched a video as detailed as this.

@user-sl1we5qk6p Ай бұрын

This should be a mandatory CFI teaching material for student PPL. Great job on the video!

@officialbritishtaxpayer5609 Ай бұрын

I think that anyone about to take a ride in a light plane for the first time should watch this video. Speaking from my own experience, that first ride can be bit nerve wracking so knowing about all these systems and how the aircraft is put together is very reassuring and this video makes it interesting too. Excellent! I was lucky to be fully briefed when I took my first flight and forty years on, I am still enjoying every moment of it.

@StudentPilot4Life Ай бұрын

Amazing video! Thank you for taking the time to put this together.

@markpell8979 Ай бұрын

Very good job on this video, fully explaining without bogging down on details that are irrelevant to most folks. This took me back so thanks. I learned in a 150 and 172 in the '70s. Nice airplanes.

@JasonMW3 Ай бұрын

I'll hopefully be getting my A&P soon and watching videos like this always makes me remember why i got into aviation maintenance in the first place. Solid Vid!

@temarito1 Ай бұрын

This is the best explained and most detailed video I've ever seen and everything is well explained and 100% accurate. That's amazing. Congratulations for that an thank for bringing us your amazing work here.

@lucasagustinbulffer8026 27 күн бұрын

Congratulations, this video it’s phenomenal. Never seen anything on this topic with this overall quality. Thank you!

@ziggurat-builder8755 Ай бұрын

Absolutely amazing video, it’s fantastic to see everything explained in detail in a single video. Bravo!!

@rezakiani6396 Ай бұрын

this is the best video I have ever seen to explain an airplane in details. Congratulations! well done! and thanks a lot.

@emmanuelcadman3923 Ай бұрын

So happy to have you back

@HEXpertStaker 25 күн бұрын

Excellent video! Thank you for the time you spent on this as it was very helpful.

@vjaceslavsgaidalonoks3128 Ай бұрын

I can't even imagine amount of work you've put into this. Amazing

@stephaniebaker7329 22 күн бұрын

Best video I’ve ever seen on this topic. Excellent job!

@kouros395 Ай бұрын

The best video I have ever watched on a Cessna 172. Extremely informative. Thank You!

@VFRontop89 Ай бұрын

Phenomenal job making this easy and digestible. Appreciate the work!!!!

@MarEpor Ай бұрын

this is amazing. even though some of these things i’ve learned during my training, this video makes it much easier to understand. this video will be used for future generation of student pilots 🙌

@kamleshjethwa4151 Ай бұрын

thanks for such an awesome video. its is a great help for new pilots .I had my first intro on 172 and totally loved watching this animations

@SusilVignesh Ай бұрын

This is an amazing video. I always wanted to know how a Cessna works and this video got recommended. Thanks for the effort mate!

@yogeshjain1682 Ай бұрын

Simply amazing!!! Brilliant 3D Animation !!! Have a great future, all the best!!!

@Kaipeternicolas Ай бұрын

This is absolutely incredibly made! I hope you'll make more such videos! I'll show this to all my flight students!

@muheydari Ай бұрын

New level of training. Thank you.

@Radioman_Motorola2691 Ай бұрын

Amazing video. Extremely well done. Thank you for sharing all your hard work. I feel better prepared already for my upcoming flight training, to attain my PPL. The best video of the breakdown of the C-172 I have ever seen. Kudos ❤to you.

@aviatordube Ай бұрын

hands down the BEST video on youtube. as a student over in the uk who hasn’t flown recently it was great to watch this to refresh my knowledge on the Cessna, although i fly the C152, they’re basically the same! Great video however!

@beomseokim683 29 күн бұрын

I feel lucky to have this video just before starting my PPL course. You are a legend.

@user-us3dp7tb3m Ай бұрын

Impressive video. The video that explains an airplane in detail is the best I've ever seen.

@billysoccerboypayne Ай бұрын

This is the best airplane learning video that I´ve ever seen on Internet so far. Thank you very much !!! 😀

@alechendryx7023 Ай бұрын

Best video I've ever seen on something like this. Textron should hire you or pay you to use this. I do want to mention something. Most new planes with the computer screens have eliminated the vacuum systems on the planes and the backup horizontal indicator is electric or even new ones are small digital ones with computer screens and a backup battery. Go look at a Garmin G5. New Cessnas don't have vacuum systems. The old planes with vacuum driven gages, of course, still have the systems. Many owners are converting to all digital and LCD screens like you show and eliminating the entire vacuum system. Maybe someone mentioned this before, but I didn't scroll thru the comments. In the end, absolutely incredible effort on this. I'm sure you learned so much. This type of skill should be invaluable to some company. JUST WOW!

@simonmathenge7544 Ай бұрын

BEAUTIFUL WORK SIR!! COMPLETE!

@danielfradd802 Ай бұрын

Brilliant video mate: Basic, accurate and informative, and unreal graphic modelling. Well done!

@pilotshashi Ай бұрын

Kudos to the amount of hard work and creative research for this informative video.

@UraFlight Ай бұрын

Brilliant video! I just started learning to fly on Cessna 172. This video helped me to understand more about this aircraft. I need to share this video with my flying instructor at my flying school.

@davidamadeo Ай бұрын

I cant even begin to describe how cool this video is. Awesome work!

@mkbull123 Ай бұрын

You will save lives with your beautiful hard work! Thank you.

@Cndnfrmkd Ай бұрын

What an incredible job. I got so much more than I expected when I clicked! Thank you!

@brianpoulin7062 17 күн бұрын

Great video! I wish i had this to show students when i was instructing. Well done!

@danieldewindt3919 Ай бұрын

This is the best video ever! thanks a lot for sharing

@wades_world22 Ай бұрын

wow .... this was absolutely incredible!!! Truly appreciate the hard work that went into this video, this is an excellent resource for people that want to learn how to get started flying 👍👍 great work!

@holl0918 24 күн бұрын

Fantastic work! This is an excellent overview of the major systems of a C172. Pretty much everything is spot on. The fuel servo which meters fuel for the injected engine is also mechanical, not electrical, but automotive injection systems are electrical so that's an easy one to miss. It has a venturi similar to a carburator which regulates the pressure in the fuel line between the engine driven fuel pump and the distributor on top of the engine (aka "fuel spider"). Also, the firing order for Lycoming engines is 1-3-2-4, with 1 being the front right cylinder and 2 being the front left. Continental engines have cylinders numbered from back to front, opposite of lycomings. I think the firing sequence animation just got a little confused as it is running backwards.

@Litepaw Ай бұрын

What a great and clear video. I'm not even a pilot, just a curious person. But now i have a much clearer idea on how small aircraft actually work.

@tommyriggo Ай бұрын

These are some of the most amazing animations I have ever seen

@KernitTheFont 23 күн бұрын

Thank you so much! I'm watching this in advance of flying my first plane (TF-51) in DCS. Everything's making sense now.

@Ryan-or9do Ай бұрын

This is quite possibly the best educational video I’ve ever watched. Thank you

@flynbenny Ай бұрын

Very well done. I have spent more time wrenching on 172s than flying, and the first thing I noticed is how the structure is perfectly boxed around the main spar, struts, and the front of the door frames to support conventional landing gear, the setup a Cessna 170 was designed with, not the tricycle gear the 172 has. Unfortunately flight school students occasionally land on the nose gear, which in the best case blows out the strut. In the worst case it wrinkles or damages the firewall. In this video you can clearly see the structure around the front of the doors and the wing struts, super strong, which made me immediately recognize the Skyhawk's heritage when I was working on them.

@b2db.fisher Ай бұрын

The best video on the subject matter I’ve seen yet. Good job!

@aceboy5418 Ай бұрын

Great video and way to illustrate a general understanding of the aircraft. Recommend this for all flight schools.

@_BL4CKB1RD_ Ай бұрын

This is so cool. I was super impressed when I saw the internals of the engine was even modeled.

@Tat-nc1ig Ай бұрын

This is awesome!! I am working on my CFI right now and I will definitely sharing this with my future students!

@wahwahmtl199 28 күн бұрын

This video is insane... wow bravo top level you should do more

@rsridhar63 16 күн бұрын

Outstanding graphics! Clear narration. Kudos.

@rogeralien Ай бұрын

tremendous work! thank you so much!!

@NemosLAAM 17 күн бұрын

Absolutely brilliant explanation of the aircraft and its systems. The components and functions are organized most logically, presented in an order that naturally leads the audience from broad, big picture topics to just the right amount of detail. A tour de force of educational content creation. Thank you for this and so much inspiration.

@robertmcbrayer5251 Ай бұрын

I wish I saw this video before I had the opportunity to fly a 172. But I did go through a simple hands on lesson before flying the plane. Very good video, THANK YOU!! for making it.

@itzahboyy Ай бұрын

Amazing Video. I’m a CFI and have read multiple books on systems for the Cessna 172, but this is a great Visual representation. Well done

@PatrickMetzdorf Ай бұрын

Fantastic animation and clear explanations. Thank you!

@scotlandtexas Ай бұрын

Fantastic video. This is a fantastic help and explains things so much better when studying for a private pilot. This should be the new standard.

@GuidoWarnecke Ай бұрын

Very very well done! Happy Landings, Capt. Guido

@mucahituckun1164 Ай бұрын

great job man im working on this airplane for 10 years, this content has massive information about Cessna 172.

@billyrowe0064 Ай бұрын

You should make a channel and make videos like this about EVERYTHING works. This was wonderful.

@atwosesa Ай бұрын

Awsome video! But I also tried the VR app and that was insane!! Incredible the possibility to look all the plane and see an internal combustion engine working inside! Good job!

@danmurphy2540 Ай бұрын

Unbelievable, soooo well done

@tomdchi12 20 күн бұрын

Beautifully done! Amazing model and animation and while there are some nits to pick on some of the statements, for non-pilots or students where an instruction can point out the corrections, this is excellent.

@PUTHENTHOPE Ай бұрын

The great effort you put in for making this video is very commendable. Good Luck!

@santiago727 25 күн бұрын

Wow this video is by far the best animation of a 172!

@williamgibb5557 3 күн бұрын

I started, but never finished, my flying lessons in a 172. Had no idea the center of the wings were so non-existent. Had headroom so that explains why. Great plane to fly.