Preflight Check for Pilot Training

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village, my name is Rodney Fielitz, I'm a certified flight instructor in Cottonwood Arizona and I'm here to give you the basics on what it takes to become a pilot. Alright, as we talk about before we go through a pre-flight of an airplane. We want to get into a habit of doing the pre-flight the same every time. I already did the inside where I turned the master switch and looked at the fuel gages, because I don't trust them I'm going to verify with the gage and the checking of the tank. I've also extended the flaps on the airplane so I can also inspect them out here physically, inside there, there is a bolt, and it’s got a safety pin on it. Over here there is another bolt; these are your ail rounds, these makes the airplane turn. Inside the airplane, you can see the yelp turning back and forth, what we're checking here is there some scrus, and there's also some hinges in here, we're looking for cracks in the hinges. And what we're working on today is a piper archer twos a nineteen seventy eight. So, it's been around quite a while, this is the original paint on this airplane, I've owned this plane for about eighteen years now. Anyways, we're checking for hinges, we're checking for damage, we're checking these rivets, to make sure none of these rivets are popping, in here are structural integrity of the airplane this is where everything is fastened on. We have lights on the ends; I'm not going to check them today, because I'm not going to be doing night flying. And I feel the front edge of the airplane, feel them for dents, here is the fuel and I'm going to look in here and it shows that I have probably a little less than seventeen gallons of fuel in there. This airplane burns about eight gallons an hour."