How to Take-Off an Airplane

Video Transcript

"Alright, we'll do our before take-off checklist. And we'll make sure that our wing flaps are up, those are all the way up. Carburetor heat is in the cold position, or full forward. Once we get on the runway, we're going to go throttle full open, so full throttle. We're going to increase our back pressure and lift that nose at about 55 knots on our air speed indicator. And then we're going to climb at about 75 knots on the air speed indicator. We've reviewed that; we're ready to take the runway. St. Charles traffic, 6343-delta is moving into position for departure on runway 27. It will be a right turn out to the north, St. Charles. Ok, you ready? Ready. Little bit of a tail wind. We're going to use the entire runway. We're going to come out here and turn around and line up with using the most distance of the available runway. Using the brake and our pedals, to make a nice, tight turn and line up right on the centerline of the runway. Come to a complete stop. Double-check all our engine instruments are working properly. Heat thermal is set, flaps are up. We're going to increase the throttle to about 2,000 RPMs. Again, checking the engine instruments. Making sure that our directional gyro is set with our runway heading. That our control services properly. Prepare to take off. Using our feet to stay on that centerline. Air speed is right, going about 55, lift the nose, and fly right off. We have a little bit of a cross wind from the left today, so our nose is pointed out a bit to the left. Much like crossing a river in a canoe. Continue to fly on our runway heading until we're at a safe altitude. A good thing to do is to go ahead and put the cowling itself atop of that nose out here, right about even with the horizon in the distance. That is going to give you about 75 knots on your air speed indicator, in what's called our "VY" climb, best rate."