Multi-Engine Instructor (MEI) Ground School — DPE Built
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This Multi-Engine Instructor (MEI) Ground School was built by a Designated Pilot Examiner to get you fully prepared for the practical test — not just to pass, but to teach with confidence.
Across 16 focused lessons, you’ll work through everything an MEI applicant is expected to know and explain: multi-engine aerodynamics, Vmc and the factors that affect it, single-engine performance and the drag penalties that come with it, and the systems that make twins different from singles. You’ll dig into the regulations that matter for instructors — including 61.183, 61.195(f), the 5-hour PIC rule, and the privileges and limitations that come with the MEI rating.
Just as importantly, you’ll learn how to teach this material. Lessons cover Vmc demo setup and recovery criteria, the LOC-I accident record and why it matters, proper endorsements, and the difference between logging PIC and dual given — the kinds of details examiners pay close attention to. The course finishes by helping you build the AMEL lesson plan set you’ll bring to the ride and putting you through a full mock oral graded against the Flight Instructor ACS (AMEL).
Whether you’re a commercial multi-engine pilot stepping into the right seat for the first time or an experienced instructor adding the rating, this course gives you the structure, the regulatory grounding, and the teaching confidence to ace your MEI checkride.
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Lesson 1: Inside the MEI Practical Test — Oral Flow & Plan of ActionA walkthrough of how the AMEL-add-on MEI practical test actually unfolds — from the examiner’s seat — so you walk in knowing the flow, the documents, and what “good” looks like.
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Quiz 1: MEI Checkride Structure & Required Documents -
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Lesson 2: Teaching vs. Knowing — The #1 MEI Failure Mode
Why most MEI applicants who fail don’t fail on knowledge — they fail on instruction. How to flip from reciting answers to teaching them.
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Quiz 2: Instructional Knowledge Standards
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Lesson 3: Vmc Certification Conditions (14 CFR 23.149) at Instructor Depth
What Vmc actually is, and the certification conditions that define it — explained at the depth an MEI must be able to teach, not just recite.
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Quiz 3: Vmc Factors & Red-Line Theory
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Lesson 4: Critical Engine Factors — Teaching P-Factor, Slipstream & Torque
How to teach why the left engine is usually critical on a conventional twin — the four asymmetric-thrust factors, explained so a student truly gets it.
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Quiz 4: Critical Engine
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Lesson 5: Examiner Traps — Stall vs. Vmc & Altitude Effects
The classic MEI oral traps: why a stall warning during a Vmc demo means recover NOW, and how density altitude can hide Vmc until it’s too late.
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Quiz 5: Vmc Demonstration Standards
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Lesson 6: Zero Sideslip & the 5° Bank/Half-Ball Compromise
The configuration that gives best single-engine performance — why “wings level, ball centered” is wrong, and how to teach the bank-toward-the-good-engine compromise.
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Quiz 6: Zero Sideslip
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Lesson 7: Accelerate-Stop / Accelerate-Go — Teaching the Decision
Teaching the takeoff go/no-go decision in a twin: accelerate-stop vs. accelerate-go distances, the decision speed concept, and how runway and density altitude drive it.
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Quiz 7: Takeoff Performance Planning
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Lesson 8: Single-Engine Climb, Service Ceiling & Drift-Down
The single-engine speeds and ceilings an MEI must teach cold: Vxse, Vyse (blue line), Vsse, the single-engine service ceiling, and the drift-down concept.
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Quiz 8: Single-Engine Performance
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Lesson 9: “Teach Me the Prop System” — Feathering, Accumulators & Unfeathering
The constant-speed/feathering propeller system at instructor depth: how feathering works, why accumulators matter, and how to unfeather — with the questions examiners love.
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Quiz 9: Propeller Systems
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Lesson 10: Fuel Crossfeed Logic, Gear & Flap Systems
The other systems examiners probe: fuel crossfeed logic (and its traps), and the hydraulic/electric gear and flap systems with their failure modes and emergency extension.
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Quiz 10: Multi-Engine Systems
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Lesson 11: Simulating Failures — Throttle vs. Mixture, Zero Thrust & Floors
How to simulate engine failures safely as an instructor: throttle vs. mixture cuts, setting zero thrust, and the altitude floors that keep training out of the accident record.
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Quiz 11: Safe Failure Simulation
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Lesson 12: Vmc Demo Setup, Recovery Criteria & the LOC-I Accident Record
How to set up and run a Vmc demonstration as the instructor, the exact recovery criteria, and why loss-of-control accidents make this the highest-stakes maneuver you teach.
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Quiz 12: Risk Management of Instructing Multis
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Lesson 13: 61.183/61.195(f), the 5-Hour PIC Rule & MEI Privileges/Limitations
The regulatory backbone of the MEI add-on: eligibility under 61.183, the flight-instructor training requirements, the 5-hour PIC rule for giving training, and your privileges and limitations.
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Quiz 13: MEI Regulations
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Lesson 14: Endorsements & Logging PIC vs. Dual Given (Examiner Pet Peeves)
The logging and endorsement details examiners love to probe: when both pilots log PIC, how an instructor logs PIC vs. dual given, and writing correct, defensible endorsements.
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Quiz 14: Endorsements & Logging
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Lesson 15: Building the AMEL Lesson Plan Set You’ll Bring to the Ride
How to build the set of AMEL lesson plans you’ll actually carry to the checkride — organized, ACS-aligned, and ready to teach from on demand.
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Quiz 15: Lesson Plan Development
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Lesson 16: Full Mock Oral — Graded Against the Flight Instructor ACS (AMEL)
The capstone: a full mock oral that strings together everything in the course, run and graded the way a DPE runs the real MEI oral against the Flight Instructor ACS (AMEL).
