Well I plan on attending a college with an aviation program so I can get my ratings by age 22 so I cant start building time as a flight instructor before the regionals, but someone told me that once you obtain the MEI rating you cant teach it right away until you get enough hrs. Before you can start teaching with the MEI rating do you need a number of Total Hrs Flight or A specific number of Multi Engine Time.
How does the MEI work
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chrisreedrules
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5 hours PIC time in each multi you want to teach in before you can actually give instruction in it.
USMCmech
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Which you will have by the time you are done preparing for your MEI check-ride.
Now, very few places are going to let you start out teaching in twins, you will have to build some experience first. The insurance company will likely have much more stringent rules.
Thats the same thing someone told me but when you mean experience do you mean more experience in Multi Engine aircraft or just more total flight hrs experience.
chrisreedrules
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So lets break this down... If you want to teach in a Seminole you need 5 hours of PIC in it. If you want to teach in a Duchess you need 5 hours of PIC in it. If you want to teach in any multi, you need 5 hours PIC in it before you can teach a student in it. And as USMCMech said, most insurance companies will want you to have something like 500TT before they really let you teach in a multi. It is a whole different bear.
USMCmech
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Either, Both.
It all depends on the place where you are working. For example you might teach in Cessnas for 6 months and then the school would train you in their twin before cutting you loose with students.
KSCessnaDriver
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Negative. You need 5 hours PIC before you can teach someone for the purpose of a rating. You can do all the IPC checks or BFR's without the 5 hours in a multi you want.
chrisreedrules
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Roger Roger
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How does the MEI work?
Pretty well if you have a twin to teach in. Otherwise, kind of a waste of money.
Pretty well if you have a twin to teach in. Otherwise, kind of a waste of money.
