Mei Checkride!!??
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Wannabe2
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I did my MEI in May and I do a lot of MEI training now. Not sure how much more involved it is as your initial, but make sure you take control of whatever situation arises. If a landing isn't looking good shortly after the final turn for instance, have the student go around immediately. If he's about to bring up the gear above the safe gear operation speed don't meekly ask him to stop. Swat his hand away from the gear or something similar. The DPE's are looking for you to be in complete control and not let the student make silly/stupid mistakes.
Make sure you are teaching as you demonstrate maneuvers. The DPE will probably fly a few of the maneuvers and make mistakes on purpose to see if you will catch them. (trying to feather the wrong prop, turning off the wrong mags etc.) Stop him immediately and discuss the mistake he make and show him how to correct it.
Make sure you know the PTS for all of the maneuvers. I'm sure this is stuff you already know, but feel free to post specific questions or PM me if you want. Good luck if you haven't already done your ride. If you have, how did it go?
Make sure you are teaching as you demonstrate maneuvers. The DPE will probably fly a few of the maneuvers and make mistakes on purpose to see if you will catch them. (trying to feather the wrong prop, turning off the wrong mags etc.) Stop him immediately and discuss the mistake he make and show him how to correct it.
Make sure you know the PTS for all of the maneuvers. I'm sure this is stuff you already know, but feel free to post specific questions or PM me if you want. Good luck if you haven't already done your ride. If you have, how did it go?
stultus
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Wannabe2 said:
I don't know about the checkride, that can sometimes be a little dicey. However, as an MEI (or cfi for that matter) I've found the best (and hardest) thing to do is LET THE STUDENT MAKE MISTAKES. Keep your mouth shut for a while, a lot of times a student would've caught something right before you blurted out "watch your speed" or what ever. After the mistake has been made, take the plane and let them focus on what just happened and explain to them how it could have been done differently, then give them the plane back and let them do it again the right way. Of course, don't let students make unsafe mistakes e.g., stepping on the wrong rudder on a low altitude engine failure or coming in on short final without the gear down, et al.
Good luck on the checkride.
jg1585
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I agree, as an insrtuctor I think you have to let the student make the mistake sometimes and catch him/herself. The key is to not let the plane get beyond the capabitlities of you as an instructor. (ie letting the mistake go to far before stepping in and taking the controls).
jg1585
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ok here it goes:
first did all the paperwork stuff and then she opened up pts and hit the FOI's. Did that for about and hour or so, it was mainly questions like what would you do if a student does this and so on.talked about defense mechanisms and how you would present material and lesson plans to students. Then she would talk or share a story about when she was a FI and what her students did,etc...
Next was aeromedical factors: carbon monoxide and hypoxia, nothing to in depth on that
then pricinples of flight: how does elevator work, got into airfoil design and controlability and stabiltity,
after a long discussion and aerodynamics and all the crap that goes with it we finally moved on, its been awhile since the checkride so i dont remember all of the questions.
She then pulled out a sectional and had me quiz her on airspace, she role played as a student and me as the instuctor, that was kinda different but it was cool. then questions about where you would solo a student what about if bad wx comes up during his/her first solo xc?
Then we talked about night ops, just basic stuff on that. Like how you would teach a student differences in flying at night verses day
then onto endorsements. lots of time on this, my examiner liked it if you knew the stuff from memory but would prefer if you looked stuff up. I was kinda shocked when she said that as i was ready to just blurt it out from memory.
the rest of the time was spent on a critical engine brief that went pretty good and then onto my Vmc brief which i screwed up royally at the end because i could not explain sideslip/zero sideslip condition well enough.
over all it was a pretty easy oral. it lasted about 7hrs with no lunch (i choose not to have a lunch because i wanted to get done asap), i think people put way to much worrying into this checkride. Just study hard for a couple weeks and get it over with.
The flight: EASY!!
Its just like a commercial multi execpt you have to explain what your doing, hell half the time the examiner is flying! just be vigilant about clearing turns and always being safe and youll be fine..
ok here it goes:
first did all the paperwork stuff and then she opened up pts and hit the FOI's. Did that for about and hour or so, it was mainly questions like what would you do if a student does this and so on.talked about defense mechanisms and how you would present material and lesson plans to students. Then she would talk or share a story about when she was a FI and what her students did,etc...
Next was aeromedical factors: carbon monoxide and hypoxia, nothing to in depth on that
then pricinples of flight: how does elevator work, got into airfoil design and controlability and stabiltity,
after a long discussion and aerodynamics and all the crap that goes with it we finally moved on, its been awhile since the checkride so i dont remember all of the questions.
She then pulled out a sectional and had me quiz her on airspace, she role played as a student and me as the instuctor, that was kinda different but it was cool. then questions about where you would solo a student what about if bad wx comes up during his/her first solo xc?
Then we talked about night ops, just basic stuff on that. Like how you would teach a student differences in flying at night verses day
then onto endorsements. lots of time on this, my examiner liked it if you knew the stuff from memory but would prefer if you looked stuff up. I was kinda shocked when she said that as i was ready to just blurt it out from memory.
the rest of the time was spent on a critical engine brief that went pretty good and then onto my Vmc brief which i screwed up royally at the end because i could not explain sideslip/zero sideslip condition well enough.
over all it was a pretty easy oral. it lasted about 7hrs with no lunch (i choose not to have a lunch because i wanted to get done asap), i think people put way to much worrying into this checkride. Just study hard for a couple weeks and get it over with.
The flight: EASY!!
Its just like a commercial multi execpt you have to explain what your doing, hell half the time the examiner is flying! just be vigilant about clearing turns and always being safe and youll be fine..
greaper007
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Were the initials of this examiners name cb? If so I may go with her. Are there any other tips or tricks you could offer me? What did she want for zero side slip, for you to say that you needed a yaw string? You can pm me if you don't feel comfortable discussing the stuff on here. Thanx
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