What does the MEI training....

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SierraPilot123

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... consist of?

I am going to do my MEI next week. What are the areas that should be concentrated on?

I don't have an instructor yet so I have little guidance other than the PTS book.

These are all the things I could think of:

-Right seat flying in the multi
-Teaching all the maneuvers, landings, engine cuts on rwy and in air, vmc demo, etc.?
-Ground lessons on multi theory and systems


Any thing else you guys can think of that would help?

And one other thing. Do you guys usually pay the other instructors for this training? The way my old instructors have always done it at this school is to get them a nice gift at the end for their work. But I will be working with new instructors that I don't know. I thought it was always pay it forward for this type of instruction.
 
The MEI flight is the same as the com-multi plus the drag demo, and of course all from the right seat while teaching.

The MEI oral is 3 things:
1. Systems (probably expect detailed electrical system, hydraulics, landing gear, prop governor, its all in the PTS)
2. Multi-engine aerodynamics (zero-sideslip, how Vmc is calculated, what factors influence Vmc and how?, definition of Vmc, critical engine, etc, all in the PTS)
3. Performance (typical t/o and landing calculations, plus things like accelerate-stop, single engine climb performance, and single engine ceilings)

It's the simplest and most straightforward of all the CFI rides (assuming its an addon and not your first CFI rating. If thats the case ignore everything I've typed).
 
As far as paying for training goes. I would say YES.

This is not a BFR or anything, this is for a rating. I know of no CFI who would train an MEI for free.

Did you do your Single Engine Add for free?

Just food for thought.
 
Its pretty much all the manuevers from the Comm Multi including the VMC Drag Demo. All of this has to be from the right seat, and presented in an instructional manner.
 
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