Today I passed the oral portion of my FAA Commercial Airplane Multi-Engine Land (AMEL) checkride today. Unfortunately the weather didn’t cooperate for the flight portion. Marc Nathanson at East Coast Aero Club was the Designated Pilot Examiner (DPE).
We covered the following topics:
- Required documents
- One Engine Inoperative (OEI) climb rate
- Engine fail on take off procedures
- Short field climb (25 deg flaps even though not recommended in POH), cruise
- Systems: Gear, propeller, fuel, vacuum, stall warning (2 stall warning tabs and how they work)
- Right gear malfunction scenario
- Post lights can be used in place of gear lights
- Land gear up or part way down – I recommended gear up
- Shut down engines? Only over numbers
- Don’t taxi with unsafe gear
- Low Oil Pressure scenario
- Indicator or real?
- Shutdown or divert?
- Simulated Engine Fire scenario
- Use fuel selector cutoff FIRST. Mixture may be broken or fuel line already burning
- Propeller
- What happens if no nitrogen? There are also spring and counterweights. I checked with Hartzell and this was their response:
- “The propeller will feather provided that there are no restrictions preventing oil from escaping from the propeller. The propeller counterweights and feathering spring will cause the propeller to feather – however it will be much slower without the air charge.”
- What happens if no nitrogen? There are also spring and counterweights. I checked with Hartzell and this was their response:
- Cross-feed – use checklist since plenty of time
- Carb heat below 20″ MP
- ILS – Gear down, 25 deg flaps, 100 kts single engine
- OEI landing – don’t idle too soon