Brandon
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Did the addon with ATP out of Bowling Green over the weekend. The instructor took me through all the maneuvers a bunch of times and I felt confident going into the ride. The examiner was a really good guy, I don't like to use names but if anyone is around BWG I would highly recommend going there for your checkride, he is the only examiner on field.
Anyways, the oral was straight forward, covered systems, emergency procedures, v-speeds, critical engine, Vmc, other stuff related to engine failure. Got in the airplane, did a short field takeoff, followed by a short field landing (turned way too late on final and drifted wide, which got me the question "Is that what the traffic pattern looks like in Canada?" I put it out of my mind and focused on the next task which was another lap around the pattern followed by a normal landing.
Then climbed up and smoked my steep turns, did slow flight and followed it up with a power off stall, then a power on stall. Then he had me drop the gear, set climb power and climb at blueline...and dumped an engine. Quickly cleaned up the gear, identified the engine, feathered and cutoff the engine. I was at 5,600 MSL with a hard deck of 5,500 so it took some work to keep the sucker up there. After doing a 180 degree turn to simulate a turn back to the airport he let me restart the engine and then I went straight into the Vmc demo. After that I did an emergency decent back down to 2500 and put on the hood for vectors for the ILS. Just before I intercepted the localizer out goes an engine...tricky guy did it with the fuel selector and had been chatting quite a bit to get me distracted, anyways, not a problem did the engine out checklist and flew the single engine ILS, went missed (both engines) and got vectors for a two engine ILS back in. That's it. Anyways, like I said the examiner was a great guy and if you are in KY/TN/IN in the vicinity I would highly recommend him. I was also very impressed with all atps multiengine program, but I'll put a separate thread about that in the ATP forum.
Anyways, the oral was straight forward, covered systems, emergency procedures, v-speeds, critical engine, Vmc, other stuff related to engine failure. Got in the airplane, did a short field takeoff, followed by a short field landing (turned way too late on final and drifted wide, which got me the question "Is that what the traffic pattern looks like in Canada?" I put it out of my mind and focused on the next task which was another lap around the pattern followed by a normal landing.
Then climbed up and smoked my steep turns, did slow flight and followed it up with a power off stall, then a power on stall. Then he had me drop the gear, set climb power and climb at blueline...and dumped an engine. Quickly cleaned up the gear, identified the engine, feathered and cutoff the engine. I was at 5,600 MSL with a hard deck of 5,500 so it took some work to keep the sucker up there. After doing a 180 degree turn to simulate a turn back to the airport he let me restart the engine and then I went straight into the Vmc demo. After that I did an emergency decent back down to 2500 and put on the hood for vectors for the ILS. Just before I intercepted the localizer out goes an engine...tricky guy did it with the fuel selector and had been chatting quite a bit to get me distracted, anyways, not a problem did the engine out checklist and flew the single engine ILS, went missed (both engines) and got vectors for a two engine ILS back in. That's it. Anyways, like I said the examiner was a great guy and if you are in KY/TN/IN in the vicinity I would highly recommend him. I was also very impressed with all atps multiengine program, but I'll put a separate thread about that in the ATP forum.
