# Cessna 152 — c152

> **NOT FOR FLIGHT** — source fidelity: unreviewed | operational review: none | completeness: full

> **content_gap**: Section "Light Signals" item count differs between passes (7 vs 11); verify nothing was dropped.

## Preflight Inspection

**Cockpit**
- [ ] Aircraft docs — **Check**
- [ ] Control wheel lock — **Remove**
- [ ] Hobbs/Tach — **Check/Record**
- [ ] Ignition — **Off**
- [ ] Master Switch — **On**
- [ ] Fuel quantity indicators — **check**
- [ ] Flaps — **down**
- [ ] Master Switch — **Off**
- [ ] Fuel shutoff valve — **On**
**Fuselage and Empenage**
- [ ] Rivets — **Check**
- [ ] Rudder Gust Lock — **Remove**
- [ ] Tail Tie-Down — **Disconnect**
- [ ] Control surfaces — **free & secure**
**Right wing**
- [ ] Aileron — **free and secure**
- [ ] Flaps — **secure**
- [ ] Wing tie-down — **disconnect**
- [ ] Main wheel tire — **inflated**
- [ ] Brakes — **not leaking**
- [ ] Fuel tank sump — **sample**
- [ ] Fuel Quantity — **check**
- [ ] Fuel Filler cap — **Secure**
**Nose**
- [ ] Engine oil level — **check**
- [ ] Fuel strainer — **sample**
- [ ] Propeller and spinner — **check**
- [ ] Alternator belt — **check**
- [ ] Air intake — **check**
- [ ] Carburetor air filter — **check**
- [ ] Landing lights — **check**
- [ ] Nose wheel strut & tire — **check**
- [ ] Nose-Tie down — **disconnect**
- [ ] Static source opening — **check**
**Left Wing**
- [ ] Main wheel tire — **inflated**
- [ ] Brakes — **not leaking**
- [ ] Fuel tank sump — **sample**
- [ ] Fuel Quantity — **check**
- [ ] Fuel Filler cap — **Secure**
- [ ] Wing tie-down — **disconnect**
- [ ] Pitot tube — **uncover and check**
- [ ] Stall warning — **check**
- [ ] Fuel tank vent opening — **check**
- [ ] Wing tie-down — **disconnect**
- [ ] Aileron — **free and secure**
- [ ] Flaps — **secure**

## Before starting engine

- [ ] Preflight inspection — **complete**
- [ ] Seats, belts — **adjust and lock**
- [ ] Fuel shutoff valve — **ON**
- [ ] Radios & elect — **OFF**
- [ ] Brakes — **test and set**
- [ ] Circuit breakers — **IN**

## Starting Engine

- [ ] Mixture — **Rich (IN)**
- [ ] Carb heat — **COLD (IN)**
- [ ] Prime — **As required; locked**
- [ ] Throttle — **Open ½ inch**
- [ ] Propeller area — **CLEAR**
- [ ] Master Switch — **ON**
- [ ] Beacon — **ON**
- [ ] Ignition — **START**
- [ ] Throttle — **Adjust 1000 rpm**
- [ ] Oil Pressure — **check normal**
- [ ] Avionics — **ON**
- [ ] Transponder — **Standby**
- [ ] Flaps — **UP**

## Before Takeoff

- [ ] Parking brake — **SET**
- [ ] Cabin doors — **CLOSE & LATCH**
- [ ] Flight controls — **free & correct**
- [ ] Instruments (4) — **SET**
- [ ] Fuel Shutoff Valve — **ON**
- [ ] Mixture — **RICH (IN)**
- [ ] Trim — **set for TAKEOFF**
- [ ] Throttle — **1700 rpm**
    - [ ] Magnetos — **check**
    - [ ] Suction gage — **check**
    - [ ] Instruments — **check**
    - [ ] Ammeter — **check**
    - [ ] Carb heat — **ON**
- [ ] Throttle — **IDLE -- chk**
- [ ] Radios — **SET**
- [ ] Beacon/lights — **ON**
- [ ] Throttle friction lock — **ADJUST**
- [ ] Brakes — **TEST**

## Engine failure (EMERGENCY)

*TAKEOFF*

**TAKEOFF**
- [ ] Throttle — **IDLE**
- [ ] Brakes — **apply**
- [ ] Flaps — **UP**
- [ ] Mixture — **IDLE cut-off**
- [ ] Ignition — **OFF**
- [ ] Master switch — **OFF**

## Engine failure (EMERGENCY)

*AFTER TAKEOFF*

**AFTER TAKEOFF**
- [ ] Airspeed — **60 KIAS**
- [ ] Mixture — **Idle Cut-off**
- [ ] Fuel shutoff valve — **OFF**
- [ ] Ignition — **OFF**
- [ ] Flaps — **as required**
- [ ] Master switch — **OFF**

## Engine failure (EMERGENCY)

*DURING FLIGHT*

**DURING FLIGHT**
- [ ] Airspeed — **60 KIAS**
- [ ] Carb Heat — **ON**
- [ ] Primer — **IN & Locked**
- [ ] Fuel Shutoff valve — **ON**
- [ ] Mixture — **RICH**
- [ ] Ignition — **BOTH (or START)**
- [ ] Airspeed — **60/65 (flaps)**
- [ ] Mixture — **cutoff**
- [ ] Fuel shutoff valve — **off**
- [ ] Ignition — **off**
- [ ] Flaps — **as required**
- [ ] Mayday — **transmit 121.5**
- [ ] Master switch — **off**
- [ ] Doors — **unlatch**
- [ ] Touchdown — **tail low**

## Carburetor Icing (EMERGENCY)

- [ ] Throttle — **FULL**
- [ ] Carb Heat — **ON (out)**
- [ ] Mixture — **Adjust**

## Engine Roughness (EMERGENCY)

- [ ] Magnetos — **check**
- [ ] Mixture — **lean as necessary**

## Engine Fire during start (EMERGENCY)

- [ ] Crank — **Continue**
- [ ] Power — **1700 RPM**
- [ ] Engine — **Shut down and inspect**

## Engine Fire during flight (EMERGENCY)

- [ ] Mixture — **Idle Cut-off**
- [ ] Fuel shut off valve — **OFF**
- [ ] Master Switch — **OFF**
- [ ] Cabin head/air — **OFF**
- [ ] Airspeed — **85 KIAS**

## Electrical failure (EMERGENCY)

- [ ] Load meter — **verify**
- [ ] Alternator — **off**
- [ ] Reduce load — **to minimum**
- [ ] Breaker/alt — **chk & reset**
- [ ] Alternator — **on**
**If still no power:**
- [ ] Alternator — **off**
- [ ] Reduce load and land

## Electrical overload (EMERGENCY)

- [ ] Master Switch — **OFF**
- [ ] Master Switch — **ON**
- [ ] Over-voltage light — **OFF**
- [ ] or TERMINATE flight — **ASAP**

## Spin Recovery (EMERGENCY)

- [ ] Ailerons — **NEUTRAL**
- [ ] Throttle — **IDLE**
- [ ] Rudder — **Full opposite**
- [ ] Control wheel — **full forward**
- [ ] Rudder control/wheel — **Neutral**
- [ ] Pitch — **Level**

## Takeoff

- [ ] Flaps — **UP**
- [ ] Carb heat — **COLD (IN)**
- [ ] Transponder — **Altitude**
- [ ] Trim — **set for TAKEOFF**
- [ ] Throttle — **FULL**
- [ ] Tach, oil, airspeed — **check**
- [ ] Elevator — **Lift at 50 KIAS**
- [ ] Climb — **70-80 KIAS**

## Cruise

- [ ] Pitch — **Set**
- [ ] Throttle — **As required**
- [ ] Trim — **Set**
- [ ] Mixture — **Adjust**

## Pre-landing checklist

- [ ] Fuel selector — **ON**
- [ ] Mixture — **Rich**
- [ ] Carb Heat — **ON**
- [ ] Seatbelts — **Fastened**

## Approach

- [ ] Flight instruments — **Ckd & Set**
- [ ] Radios — **Checked**
- [ ] ATIS — **Checked**
- [ ] Carb Heat — **ON**
- [ ] Mixture — **Rich**

## After landing

- [ ] Flaps — **UP**
- [ ] Carb Heat — **COLD (IN)**
- [ ] Transponder — **Standby**
- [ ] Landing light — **OFF**

## Parking

- [ ] Avionics — **OFF**
- [ ] Electrical — **OFF**
- [ ] Throttle — **1000 RPM**
- [ ] Mixture — **Cut-off**
- [ ] Ignition switch — **OFF**
- [ ] Master switch — **OFF**

## Securing the aircraft

- [ ] Control Lock — **Install**
- [ ] Hobbs/Tach — **Record**
- [ ] Door/Window — **Secure**
- [ ] Tie-downs — **Secure**

## Short field take-off

- [ ] Take-off checklist — **complete**
- [ ] Taxi — **max runway**
- [ ] Brakes — **set and hold**
- [ ] Flaps — **10(**
- [ ] Throttle — **FULL**
- [ ] Brakes — **release**
- [ ] Climb — **54 KIAS**
- [ ] Flaps — **retract when clear**
- [ ] Airspeed — **67 KIAS**

## Short field landing

- [ ] Pre-landing check — **complete**
- [ ] Approach — **54 KIAS**
- [ ] Flaps — **30(**
- [ ] Throttle — **maintain glide**
- [ ] Touchdown — **power off**
- [ ] Flaps — **UP**
- [ ] Elevator — **Full up**
- [ ] Braking — **Heavy as required**

## Soft field take-off

- [ ] Take-off checklist — **complete**
- [ ] Flaps — **10(**
- [ ] Taxi — **keep rolling**
- [ ] Climb — **54 KIAS**
- [ ] Flaps — **retract**
- [ ] Airspeed — **67 KIAS**

## Soft field landing

- [ ] Pre-landing check — **complete**
- [ ] Throttle — **1500 RPM**
- [ ] Flaps — **10(**
- [ ] Airspeed — **60 KIAS**
- [ ] Touchdown — **main first, softly**
- [ ] Landing roll — **nose wheel up**
- [ ] Elevator — **UP**
- [ ] Braking — **as required**

## Go-around

- [ ] Throttle — **FULL**
- [ ] Carb Heat — **Cold (IN)**
- [ ] Flaps — **UP**
- [ ] Airspeed — **67 KIAS**

## Light Signals

**Light Signals:**
> **NOTE:** Steady Green — On Ground: Takeoff; In Flight: Land
> **NOTE:** Flashing Green — On Ground: Taxi; In Flight: Return to land
> **NOTE:** Steady Red — On Ground: Stop; In Flight: Give way
> **NOTE:** Flashing Red — On Ground: Clear runway; In Flight: Do not land
> **NOTE:** Flashing white — On Ground: Return to ramp; In Flight: --
> **NOTE:** Red/Green alternating — WARNING – USE CAUTION

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NOT FOR FLIGHT — source fidelity: unreviewed | operational review: none | completeness: full  
Source: Cessna/152/c152.txt  
Rights: licensed  
Checklist hash: 7ca0a8f6d5cd02ca6759302b9fbd0a71ed9eead9337b98e8626784b7a5f70471  
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