multi interview question.

[kj6991]

quick scenario,

I have a MER, but not yet an MEI. I have about 60 hours in the twin i fly and our school requires an MEI in the plane at all times. about 40 hours of that 60 is PIC time, but it is all dual recieved. my question is will an interviewer care if most of my time is PIC dual recieved since i am not yet an MEI. I am very well off in the airplane and when i take trips with my MEI i really don't need the dual intsruction because i have plenty of PIC time in the airplane. Also, when two MEI's are both splitting time, what is the best way both can log the time(hood,safety pilot,etc?)hopefully i'm not beating a dead horse with this question. any commetns would be greatly appreciated.

 

[smokinhole]

You can always explain to an interviewer what you previously posted. Depending on the person you are sitting across from, it may or may not make a difference.

My recomendation would be to log it as PIC and stop having the instructor endorse your logbook. If you are rated in the aircraft, from the FAA's point of view the CFI in the right seat might as well be dead weight regardless of what your flight schools requirements are.

In the long run I really don't think it's going to be a make or break issue for you.

S.H.

 

[100LL... Again!]

Pity the poor MEI in that situation, but he is right. You do not need to log dual recieved. Tell the MEI that you'll let him sign your logbook for $30 per hour. Otherwise, no dice.


Bwahahahaha!!!

 

[minitour]

...I was looking into renting a twin to use for travel with family and friends. One guy wanted a min of 25 hours in the airplane at $190 an hour, plus $50 for the pilot....No Thanks.

The other place wanted the MEI in the airplane at all time, even though I have 3 times as much multi time he does. They couldn't give me a straight answer as to why the MEI had to be there. I just had some zit faced kid with 300 hours, drooling at the fact that he was going to sit in the airplane, and get to log dual given in the twin.

Funny you should ask that...the answer I got (as expected) was "Southworst can get you there and back for less"

Funny ol world ain't it...

-mini

 

[mizzouguy]

It is an insurance issue and the MEI is required by regs to log it in your log book. What are you worried about anyway Noone is going to hire a guy with 60 hrs multi to fly a multi engine airplane. Get your MEI and start logging dual given. They would like that a whole lot more and so would the insurance company.

 

[JRSLim]

Mino has it right, by the time you have the required hours, you probably will have gotten your MEI and this shouldn't be an issue, but the Multi you're logging right now is valid multi any way you cut it.
At our school, there's only two MEI's allowed to instruct multi, although only 500TT is required. Across the field they want 1200TT for a C310. People are real sensitive - largely because of insurance and also because when one of those engines goes out- things happen real fast as I'm sure you are aware. Up here in the mountains its more critical, because we get Density Altitudes regurlarly 8-10,000 ft, so VMC and Stall speed are usually pretty close together.

 

[igneousy2]

It is an insurance issue and the MEI is required by regs to log it in your log book. What are you worried about anyway Noone is going to hire a guy with 60 hrs multi to fly a multi engine airplane. Get your MEI and start logging dual given. They would like that a whole lot more and so would the insurance company.

Technically under the regs he does not have to sign the logbook as it is not dual given if he is just ballast to make the insurance company happy.

Practically though, it is unlikely to make much of a difference to a person you are interviewing with if it was dual or not. People in this industry understand how aviation insurance works. Let the CFI log the flight time. I would find the youngest (least experienced) MEI and offer to "choose" him to be your CFI if he would share some of the cost with you. It sounds cheesey but most of these MEI's are also trying to build time to get on to the next level. We ALL have to pay our dues right!

As far as the requirement goes I would say that it sounds about right. It is very difficult to get insurance for low time pilots on a multi if you are a small school. If the school has a big fleet (i.e. FlightSafety) then it can be done but there are other requirements which can be just as stringent (i.e. graduate of the schools MEI program) I was the operations manager of a flight school for a while and I would be that your MEI does not get $30/hour...he probably gets 12-15 of that if he is an employee of the flight school.

Later

 

[kj6991]

igneousy2, your exactly right. 13 bucks an hour for an MEI. I've always just logged everything dual received and i am gonna continue to do that until I recieve my MEI, then when i get a few students log dual given. thanks for the replies.