MEI or Go Home?

[PSL]

BoilerUP:

I didn't confuse the distinction between the difficulty of the checkride and the 'challenges of teaching' ... now I am convinced you didn't either.

Your DPE did you a favor. When I was training MEIs in Cessna 310s and BE55/58 we spent 85 % of the time just talking about the items you mentioned in your post. I give insurance company checks in CE-300/400 series, BE55/58 and it astounds me how many people don't believe they loose 70-85% of their climb performance when a motor quits.

If the DPE did not ask you to demonstrate an instrument approach single engine under the hood from the right seat ... ask him/her (or someone you trust) to go out with you and do exactly that ... While the DPE was not obligated per the PTS to do it ... you might benefit from having a chat with him/her to get an idea of the workload involved for a new MEI.

You will be busy ... very busy ... and acutely aware just how dangerous a lack of attention can be.

It's a challenge ... because you have to let the student make mistakes so they can learn ... the trick is to know just how far to let them go before you get 'challenged'.

Best of luck ... enjoy your new rating ...

 

[HMR]

Mini-
Get the MEI. I took the gamble and got my CFI, CFII, and MEI with no break inbetween. About one month later I got my first multi student. Once I got her finished she told a friend who told a friend who told a friend... 12 months later I had given 500 Dual in the Duchess.

PS-When do you find time to study? You have 814 posts since April. That's over 100 per month!

 

[minitour]

...PS-When do you find time to study? You have 814 posts since April. That's over 100 per month!

aviation is my #2 in my life right now...only my wife is higher...which is a change from a year ago when she was number one and golf was number two...but anyway...

I'm sure a good percentage of my posts are dumbass remarks that have no meaning whatsoever...I'm a smartass by nature...

Plus if I'm not talking about flying, posting about flying, or thinking about flying...I'm reading about flying...trying to learn as much as I can in as short of a period of time as possible...

I like to think there are shortcuts to everything...you just have to decide if the shortcuts are worth working your balls off to get to...IMO...I think this one is worth it...

Hopefully any knowledge I pick up now, I can use in the future...so that's how it becomes a shortcut...

My favorites are Weather Flying and of course all of those FAA Books like Instrument Flying Handbook and Pilots Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge (I'm reading it for like the fifth time right now)...of course the oral exam guides and PTSssss...

so...I do get to do quite a bit of studying...and I also "use" this board to learn too (although I am learning to use a filter on some of what I read on here ).

Anywho...thanks for the input...I guess I never thought about it that way...

if I don't have it and a multi student walks in, I have no chance of getting that time...if I do have it...then at least I have a chance to get that student...

Take care

-mini

PS I don't sleep a lot either

 

[English]

2. I'm allowed another $20k or so on my loan so I could add on the MEI (takes about 3-5 days...so that week I'd be doubling up on the CFI/MEI)

Are you saying that the MEI will cost you 20K where you are?

 

[minitour]

Are you saying that the MEI will cost you 20K where you are?

nonononono....I guess I didn't type that the way I was thinking it...

I can have another 20k on my loan...

the MEI should run around 4k (thats the number I've been told - but its funny, the lady that told me 4k told someone on the phone 2500...go figure)

-mini

 

[PC12Cowboy]

Mini,
I did the CFI and MEI rides all on the same day...no problem.....I was in the land of red necks at Airman and Brian was the man who got me ready ...He was great and the rides weren't hard..but the knowledge is fleeting...so keep studying after you get your instructor ratings ...and always remember that students spend money cause its fun...keep a lite hand on the controls and a joke around the corner

 

[English]

Still seems a bit steep...if I recall correctly, the MEI can be done in about 5 hours of instruction time in the aircraft, if you use the same airplane you'll be using for your commercial multi.

How many flight hours will you be receiving for $4000?

 

[minitour]

Still seems a bit steep...if I recall correctly, the MEI can be done in about 5 hours of instruction time in the aircraft, if you use the same airplane you'll be using for your commercial multi.

How many flight hours will you be receiving for $4000?

...whatever is the minimum by the regs...as an addon...so...who knows...5? 15? somewhere between those two (including the checkride)...

-mini

PS
As an aside, I've heard stories of some foreigners potentially blowing the Vmc Demo or OEI approach just so they can get more twin time before we ship 'em back home...

 

[BoilerUP]

PSL,

I spent about two of my five hours training for the MEI under the hood, shooting approaches with both and a single engine. I told my instructor I didn't feel comfortable with a new rating (and its responsibility) as well as being checked out in a new airplane without doing some SE instrument work. Thank goodness, because if I ever did have to fly a cross-panel single engine approach in IMC I'd be up to my eyeballs in workload. If the weather was low I'd be in trouble...and I consider myself to currently be very proficient on instruments. It definately allowed me some perspective on the difficulty of such a task...

Thank you for your insight and encouragement; it is all well taken, and I truly do appreciate it!