Ground Control; Center Pedestal Layout; Rh Panel Layout - Cessna 172R Operating Handbook

SECTION 7
AIRPLANE SYSTEMS DESCRIPTION
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|RH
PANEL LAYOUT
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The RH panel contains the hour
expansion of indicators and other avionics equipment. Below this
sub panel are the
wing flap switch.

CENTER PEDESTAL LAYOUT

The
center
elevator trim control
bracket and fuel shutoff valve control. The fuel selector valve handle
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is located at the base of the pedestal.

GROUND CONTROL

Effective ground
nose wheel steering by
left and right rudder pedal to steer right. When a rudder pedal
steer
is depressed, a
nose gear and
to the
through an arc of approximately 10° each side of
applying either left or right
increased up
Moving the airplane by hand is most easily accomplished by
attaching a
tow
or pushing is required, use the wing
available,
use the vertical or horizontal
Do not
the airplane is
more than 30° either side of
nose gear could result.
The minimum turning
braking and nose wheel steering during taxi, is approximately 27
|feet.
To obtain a
airplane may be rotated around either main
pressing down on a tailcone bulkhead just forward of the horizontal
raise the nose wheel off the ground. Care should be
stabilizer
to
exercised
to
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area and
not
horizontal stabilizer is
7-12
glove box, cabin heat and
pedestal, located below the center panel, contains the
wheel, position
control
using
spring loaded steering bungee (which
the rudder bars) will turn the nose wheel
to
each side of
to 30°
the nose gear
bar
to
to be towed by
radius of the airplane,
minimum radius
ensure that pressure is exerted
on skin between the bulkheads. Pressing down on the
recommended.
not
ELT switch, and room for
meter,
indicator,
while taxiing is accomplished through
the rudder pedals;
brake, the degree of turn
center.
strut. If
surfaces
never
vehicle,
or structural
center
turn during ground handling,
CESSNA
MODEL 172R
cabin air controls,
handheld microphone
left rudder pedal to
is connected
center. By
may be
a
tow bar is not
as push points.
struts
move the airplane.
to
nose wheel
turn the
damage to the
using differential
landing gear by
on
only the bulkhead
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If
the