MEI checkride questions

Blip16

Blip16

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anyone ever have to do instrument approaches on a MEI ride? from what i am hearing from people around me, the DPE i am going to use makes you do 2 instrument approaches on the MEI ride (one single engine). the PTS says that it is not required. anyone else have to do that? I think it is BS because it will make my ride 1 hour longer and much more expensive
 
BuickCFI said:
anyone ever have to do instrument approaches on a MEI ride? from what i am hearing from people around me, the DPE i am going to use makes you do 2 instrument approaches on the MEI ride (one single engine). the PTS says that it is not required. anyone else have to do that? I think it is BS because it will make my ride 1 hour longer and much more expensive
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Never heard of that. The examiner has no right to ask you to do anything not on the PTS. If he's doing this as a matter of course, I'd speak to his POI at the FSDO.
 
The MEI was the easiest (and shortest) checkride I've ever taken. 1.3 on the hobbs, no approaches.
 
I always thought you were held to the standards of the ratings you hold.

That being said, you may want to use a different DE if he starts making you do stuff like that.
 
in the PTS it states for ratings already held they can be tested for competency. i hold CFII/CFII already, which means i only need to do 6 areas in the PTS for the checkride, but from the way i read it he can pretty much test whatever he wants.

this guy is the ONLY DPE in my area i know of for MEI
 
the question is, do the UND DPE's only do MEI for UND students, and if they don't, do i dare try to take my ride with one of them? (SIEW is one i don't want!)
 
BuickCFI said:
in the PTS it states for ratings already held they can be tested for competency.
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Can you quote where it says that...exactly?


BuickCFI said:
i hold CFII/CFII already, which means i only need to do 6 areas in the PTS for the checkride, but from the way i read it he can pretty much test whatever he wants.
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What he can do is test you on any area of operation of the appropriate PTS. Not every area is required, but he has the latitude. However, there is no area of operation on the flight instructor multi-engine that involves instrument approaches.
 
i just looked thru the PTS again and instrument approaches are not on the task list, so maybe my instructor doesn't have a clue as to what he is talking about?
 
BuickCFI said:
i just looked thru the PTS again and instrument approaches are not on the task list, so maybe my instructor doesn't have a clue as to what he is talking about?
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I'm sure he has a clue. :) But he could be mistaken in this instance. If you haven't done a lot of MEI's, then it's easy to forget what it encompasses.
 
tgrayson said:
I'm sure he has a clue. :) But he could be mistaken in this instance. If you haven't done a lot of MEI's, then it's easy to forget what it encompasses.
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that is likely as i seem to recall him telling me he only trained one other MEI a few years ago
 
I had the same question when going for my Commercial Multi add-on. I did some approaches--two engines and one engine--and was prepared for anything even though it wasn't required. My checkride was observed by the DPE's examiner and we all went through the PTS before the ride and didn't take the hood along.

Same DPE, two months later for my MEI ride, no hood.
 
Here is the way I understand it: The examiner is not required to make you do approaches on an MEI ride, but there isn't anything that says he cannot ask you to do them. It is at the discretion of the examiner.
 
pilot4500 said:
Here is the way I understand it: The examiner is not required to make you do approaches on an MEI ride, but there isn't anything that says he cannot ask you to do them. It is at the discretion of the examiner.
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The examiner is required to limit the checkride to the PTS, which is stated in both the PTS and the Pilot Examiner's Handbook. An Examiner could lose his designation for deviating from it.
 
MSNFlyer said:
I had the same question when going for my Commercial Multi add-on. I did some approaches--two engines and one engine--and was prepared for anything even though it wasn't required. My checkride was observed by the DPE's examiner and we all went through the PTS before the ride and didn't take the hood along.

Same DPE, two months later for my MEI ride, no hood.
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Interesting. When I did my Commercial multi checkride I did two instrument approaches. One with two engines and one single engine. In fact the examiner told me before the flight to make sure that I had my hood with me. I was well prepared for it though and passed the checkride.
 
pilot4500 said:
Interesting. When I did my Commercial multi checkride I did two instrument approaches. One with two engines and one single engine. In fact the examiner told me before the flight to make sure that I had my hood with me. I was well prepared for it though and passed the checkride.
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That's because instrument approaches are on the Commercial Multi PTS.
 
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