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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As a flight instructor for 11 years, this is the best video I have ever seen to explain an airplane in details. Congratulations!
100%
Perfect
flight instructor for 11 years still learning hats off, I am student pilot right now
I'm sorry to hear your life has been so impoverished. You have my sympathy.
agreed
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.
Too damn bad some effort wasn't put into the *SO CALLED* narration of the video. It might have been worth listening to.
@@manifold1476 I heard a narration. Basic stuff, but good.
Excellent video, I’ve got 300 hours in the skyhawk and basically everything was perfect. Amazing work
I second it. I have over 300 hours in 172s so I have nothing to add or correct.
@@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 KZhead video, so I get it. Good luck!
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.
I have 71 hour's, and this is awesome!
If you want to get super picky the firing order is incorrect. The lycoming O-360 is 1-3-2-4.
I went school 3 years to learn all that. In 24 minutes you resume it all. Excellent video
Should have done part 61
@@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.
@@thecomedypilot5894 It doesn't make you a better candidate.
@@jimm9157 Yes it does… it most certainly does. You jealous or what?
@@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.
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!
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 KZhead! 🤯🤯🤯 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!
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
@@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
This is the overall most informitive video on a C172 I've ever watched
I suspect this just became a standard part of training at flight schools. Good job.
No he has a disclaimer that strictly prohibits its use at any flight school.
@@ArmaGuyz Errr... why?
@@scottfranco1962 It's his property, he decides. no whys need to be asked
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.
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.
@@miporschethe Continental IO-360-KB engine in the newest model can do 195hp
The flow rate is a pressure sensor. A clogged injector can actually indicate a very high flow rate because the pressure goes up.
This might be the only video that so many pilots aren’t criticizing. Excellent job on the video. Highly recommend to student pilots!
As a flight instructor at a cessna pilot center, ill be showing this to my new students! great job!
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!!!
I only saw one factual mistake. (About fuel injection.) For a video like this, that is truly impressive.
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.
as a skyhawk pilot myself, i found this very informative and thorough. good job keeping your facts right!!!!
Much appreciated!
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.
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.
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.
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!
never realized how perfect the cessna 172 design is...classic
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@kuckoo9036 ERAU has some fantastic videos about the pitot-static, gyroscopic, and vacuum instruments.
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 :)
This should be a mandatory CFI teaching material for student PPL. Great job on the video!
As a beginner learner pilot, this was very helpful and well done. Such impressive work.
I really appreciate your support, I wasn't expecting this. Thank you.
DUDE! This is genuinely one of the best videos I’ve ever seen! Definitely showing this to every last one of my students moving forward.
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.
One of the most amazing animated videos I've ever watched on KZhead concerning aviation mechanics. Thank you so much for such a hard yet beautiful work!
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!
From a retired airline pilot and instructor with tons of C172 time - thanks for a brilliant video. One correction, per my first instructor - it's not the powerplant/thrust combined with lift that makes a plane fly ...it's money. :)
An airplane (boat) is a hole in the air (water) into which one pours money.
I'll clean this up a tad. Also per my fist instructor "If it flies, floats, or fornicates ...it's cheaper to rent it" @@johnopalko5223 Cheaper mind you, not necessarily better :)
I've always heard that the powerplant was the part of the plane that converts money into noise
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.
Im in A&P school and this video sums up a lot of what I've learned in classroom, more in depth. Incredible video.
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.
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!
Congratulations, this video it’s phenomenal. Never seen anything on this topic with this overall quality. Thank you!
I feel lucky to have this video just before starting my PPL course. You are a legend.
Thank you so much! I'm watching this in advance of flying my first plane (TF-51) in DCS. Everything's making sense now.
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.
The best video I have ever watched on a Cessna 172. Extremely informative. Thank You!
Amazingly done, I'm a commercial student and one watch of this doubled my understanding of my plane and skyrocketed me thru my grounds. I'm sharing this with all the instructors at my school to use as a teaching aid and I will be using it as well when I'm CFI. Great job man and thanks so much for taking the time to build this vid, helped me immensely. If ur looking for ideas for more vids, I would love to see stuff on aerodynamics and maybe malfunctions? Even weather would be huge!... love it keep it up
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.
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.
As a pilot and professional digital modeler and occasional animator, this is no small feat and very well done! I can only imagine the amount of hours put into this thing.
I can't even imagine amount of work you've put into this. Amazing
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.
I’m not a pilot but I watched the entire of the video, woooow this is amazing, very very well done 🤩🤩🤩
So happy to have you back
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.
Correction: @5:36 IO360 is a mechanically injected system it does not require any electric power for the injection system to run. The alternator only exists to drive accessories and avionics like most other GA aircraft.
…and charge the Battery.
@@one-o-four889Battery counts as accessory when your engine doesn't require it to run
This is quite possibly the best educational video I’ve ever watched. Thank you
Absolutely amazing video, it’s fantastic to see everything explained in detail in a single video. Bravo!!
this is the best video I have ever seen to explain an airplane in details. Congratulations! well done! and thanks a lot.
Amazing video! Thank you for taking the time to put this together.
Best video I’ve ever seen on this topic. Excellent job!
I cant even begin to describe how cool this video is. Awesome work!
This is by far the best animation and explanation of the working of a small plane that I’ve ever seen🤩 Amazing🤩 I wish I could have had this when I was a student pilot back in the days 😊
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!
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
Excellent video! Thank you for the time you spent on this as it was very helpful.
Simply amazing!!! Brilliant 3D Animation !!! Have a great future, all the best!!!
Brilliant video mate: Basic, accurate and informative, and unreal graphic modelling. Well done!
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!
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.
Phenomenal job making this easy and digestible. Appreciate the work!!!!
New level of training. Thank you.
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.
What an incredible job. I got so much more than I expected when I clicked! Thank you!
The animating in this video is amazing. Much appreciated! This was a great watch.
You should make a channel and make videos like this about EVERYTHING works. This was wonderful.
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
great job man im working on this airplane for 10 years, this content has massive information about Cessna 172.
Amazing video, it resumes almost all of the first course that I took in my aerospace engineering degree.
I am an aeronautical engineer and a private pilot, this is the best video of the 172 I have ever seen! This must have taken so much time to create! Thank you so much for sharing it with us!
Working in aviation since 1992, this video is the best I've never seen to explain the basics.
I am not yet in flighschool, but I've been studying aviation for years, by reading books and earning on the internet. and this may be one the most complete and precise video animation of the C172 I've ever seen
Outstanding graphics! Clear narration. Kudos.
Great video! I wish i had this to show students when i was instructing. Well done!
This is absolutely incredibly made! I hope you'll make more such videos! I'll show this to all my flight students!
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!
You will save lives with your beautiful hard work! Thank you.
Impressive video. The video that explains an airplane in detail is the best I've ever seen.
Being just a "virtual" pilot using MS Flight Simulator I very much appreciated this video, since C 172 is one of my favorite planes available on that platform. This is a very well made video with excellent technical information. Thanks a lot!
BEAUTIFUL WORK SIR!! COMPLETE!
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.
Great video and way to illustrate a general understanding of the aircraft. Recommend this for all flight schools.
This is awesome!! I am working on my CFI right now and I will definitely sharing this with my future students!
The best detailed animation work I ever seen about 172 Skyhawk. I think this kind of work must be in all aviation schools to better learning process in the ground school fase. Congrats for your professional Work and Greetings from Mexico.
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!
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.
I own a Cherokee but have a lot of time in Skyhawks. I'm now working on my A&P, mostly on Skyhawks, and you nailed it!
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 🙌
These are some of the most amazing animations I have ever seen
Wow this video is by far the best animation of a 172!
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.
Ione and fly a Cessna 172. Thank you for this video. It’s a very detailed inside lock. I enjoyed watching it and I hope you make more videos like this.
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.
Kudos to the amount of hard work and creative research for this informative video.
This is the best airplane learning video that I´ve ever seen on Internet so far. Thank you very much !!! 😀
What a great video graphically explained, "A picture is worth a thousand words". I am a student pilot flying Piper Archer, though I have flown Cessna 172. Definitely my understanding of how a plane's different systems work and functions have accelerated. Many thanks for your efforts.
tremendous work! thank you so much!!
Crazy good quality. Compliments!