MEI

Snickersnwa

Snickersnwa

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Passed the MEI checkride today with SIEW today! Such a long day, and way different than a UND stage check...
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Congrats! That will probably be the most intense and difficult checkride you will ever take in your career, I know it was in my case. My ATP and my type ride was a walk in the park compared to my MEI.
 
Congrats! Sounds like that would be a long day! I cannot even imagine what a CFI or CFII MEI day would be like! Just sounds like one long day of questions, and paperwork and things of that nature.
 
Congrats man!! The MEI check is a difficult one. Remember what you learned in your training and pass that on to your students. Build your time and get to where you want to be life. Make sure you go out and have a cold one!
 
CAFFEINE said:
Congrats Mike! Now fill us in on the details, it's almost time for my MEI ride. :)
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Well, the oral was at 9:00am and the flight was scheduled at 12:30pm.

The oral:

It really wasn’t that bad… intense, but not bad. I’m wiped right now, but here’s what I can remember… I was given scenarios with regulations and required endorsements, NTSB 830, Vmc Vs Stall speed, (pretty much everything in FAR 61.125), discussion about the autopilot and the cautions and warnings listed in the autopilot manual, maneuvering with one engine inoperative… nothing really much with certification of Vmc, factors affecting stall speed, flight characteristics with airplanes with different engine configurations (like the C337 and even the Cessna Citation 1 and 2), and very little FOI. He really tried to get me to reverse my answers sometimes, but just had to stick to my guns and prove my case with the Regs, PHAK, AFH, PTS, etc… In a nutshell, some multiengine stuff, and a lot of random general knowledge that he tries to twist. :)

The flight:

Very straight forward. At the end of the oral, he outlined the flight and what he wanted me to teach in what order. While making the outline, he asked me about standards and other random questions. He had several questions regarding the autopilot, and various other things that he pointed out in the cockpit that he wanted me to tell him what they were… (ex. “flow detectors” and the flight director’s parallax error adjuster were a couple of them) He wanted to get through the flight and the maneuvers quickly, and I had to convince him a few times that we needed to do clearing turns! A few times he wanted to roll right into another maneuver from another one… I wasn’t going to fall for that. He really didn’t fly a whole lot also. He flew as I taught him an emergency gear extension and took the initial descent back into the GFK area while I picked up ATIS and called up approach. I also taught descent planning using the 6/3 rule, a short field landing, short field takeoff, single engine landing, normal takeoff, and he took the last takeoff and landing. The ramps were still poor braking due to ice, but the runway was in good condition.

I’m sure that there was a lot more to it than what I’ve written, but that’s the gist of it. It’s really just a long day if the weather’s good and you do both the oral and the flight in the same day.
 
Thanks for all the congrats everyone! Say, if anyone needs an instructor for 325 I now have two open slots for next semester... :)
 
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