Page 1 of 1

✈️ C172 – RUNUP - PREFLIGHT FLOW

✈️ RUNUP

Parking brake - Set

Fuel selector - BOTH

Trim - Set for takeoff

✈️ Pilot Briefing

Positive exchange of controls - "We’ll use verbal confirmation: ‘You have the controls.’ ‘I have the controls.’ No transfer is complete until ‘I have’ is spoken.”

Request Flight Following (ATC) - "Santa Monica Ground, Skyhawk (tailnumber), requesting flight following to _____."

Set squawk (if approved) and set GPS.

Confirm route of flight - "Route of Flight today will be ____"

Plan for Power Loss on Takeoff: "We’ll verbalize each step and do a run-through only." (Hands demonstrate; no control inputs).

Power Loss on Takeoff

On the Ground

Power Loss on Takeoff

Throttle - Idle

Brakes - Apply

Flaps - UP

Aircraft - Stopped

Ignition - OFF

Below 800 Feet AGL

Untitled checkboxes field

Pitch for 68kts - Lower nose

Fuel Shutoff Valve - OFF

Mixture - Cutoff

Ignition - OFF

Flaps - Full

Master - OFF

Land straight ahead (Don't Return)

Above 800 Feet AGL

Untitled checkboxes field

Note winds/ MSL altitude

Land on runway or golf course

RUNUP cont.

Flight controls - Yoke/Rudder - Free & correct

Annunciator Lights - Check

Instruments - Check

Oil Temperature - 100° F

Mixture - FULL RICK

Power 1800 RPM — suppress yoke

Magneto LEFT - Check*

Magneto RIGHT - Check*

*RPM: Max drop 150 / Max difference 50

Untitled checkboxes field

Vacuum - Check

Amps/ Volts - 28V

Oil Temperature - Green

Oil Pressure - Green

Power - Idle

Power - 900 RPM

Throttle friction

Mixture - Lean for taxi

Transponder - Set

Contact (ATC) Ground - "Santa Monica Ground, Skyhawk (tailnumber), runup complete."

Wait for taxi instructions to runway, or standby.