Flaps setting depends on the airplane. The drag from flaps can slow down some planes on the runway so significantly more roll distance is required to reach rotation speed. But for my plane 15 degrees of flaps works best.
What's the reason for rotating before you reach VX airspeed. Won't a plane reach that speed in a shorter distance when the wings are not producing lift, thus induced drag ?
When he says depress the breakers he says that to make sure the wheels stop spinning after takeoff. I’m not sure what effect it has but I think the spinning wheels vibrate a lot which makes the whole plane vibrate/shudder
There is bad advice in this video. Many Cessna 172 aircraft POH call for zero flaps for short-field take-off. This video instructs the pilot to use 10% flaps. If you use 10% flaps for your shortfield takeoff you will probably fail your checkride. Check your POH!
I have always found it curious that older c172 short field recommend 0 flaps and new c172 call for flaps 10. As far as I know its the same basic airframe [aerodynamically], maybe the higher power of the new models changes the optimal setting or they have just had time to do a lot more testing. Also old c172 could go to flaps 40 which really allowed a steep approach and short landing, newer models are limited to flaps 30.
