Friday, May 16, 2008 - 11:54:46 ET

Multi ride coming up!

My Multi-Engine flight test is being booked for May 28th!

Had a flight in the Seminole last night, practiced circuit work. I was having a tough time of keeping the airplane lined up with the centre line, I got that all sorted out yesterday.

Over the course of the lesson, the active runway switched twice, flipping back and forth between 33 and 03. 03/21 is the short runway at 2600'. This was the first time I used the short runway at Buttonville in the Seminole.

Did two circuits there, then switched to 33. There we did a few short field take offs, short field landing with obstacle. As well as a flapless landing.

With the exception of one landing, everything went well.

I just need to review my emergency checklists and ensure that I know the V speeds that need to be memorized.

Two of the speeds, Vyse and Vy happen to be the same in this plane... 88KTIAS. So that makes things a little easier.

All in all, I'm confident that I will have no issues with the ride. There will be a review flight before the flight test to ensure I'm good to go.

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Vyse - 88 kts
Vxse - 82 kts
Vy - 88 kts
Vx - 82 kts
Va (gross weight) - 135 kts
Vne - 202 kts
Vmca - 56 kts
Vs - 57 kts (clean)
Vso - 55 kts (dirty)
Vle - 140 kts
Vlo - 109 kts
Vno - 169 kts
Vfe - 111 kts

Posted by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - 20:31:44

That looks about right.. However, do you know which ones are memory items?

Hint: take a look at the mutli-engine flight test guide.

Posted by: Blake on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 12:03:49

Memory items are:

Vmca, Vyse, Vxse, Vne, Va

If I missed any let me know, I'm taking my ME flight test too... I figured I would just remember all of them to save the hassle.

Posted by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 17:18:48

Oops, I looked up the Flight test guide and here's the memory items.

Vso, Vyse, Va, Vmc, Vle, Vlo, Vfe, Vsse

What's Vsse?

Posted by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 24, 2008 - 12:30:34

Vsse is the intentional one engine operative speed.

The definition is in the flight test guide:

A speed above both Vmc and stall speed, selected to provide a margin of lateral and directional control when one engine is suddenly rendered inoperative.

Intentional failing of one engine below this speed is not recommended. In the event that the POH/AFM does not state a Vsse, use a speed equal to Vmc+10KTs

So in other words, for practicing single engine stuff, the FI or Examiner will not fail an engine on you when the speed is below Vsse.

Posted by: Blake on Sunday, May 25, 2008 - 10:24:29

I read that in the test guide but the POH does not specifically say what Vsse in the Seminole is?

Good luck on your multi-ride, mine's on the 30th. Were you able to answer all the questions in the flight test guide for Ex 1C? The questions are not very specific.

Posted by: Anonymous on Monday, May 26, 2008 - 09:24:16

Yes.. it's in the POH.

Specifically: Section 4.3, item (F):

f) intentional one engine inoperative speed: 82KIAS.

There are two items that I was not able to answer confidently in Ex 1C:

- Explain the factors affecting Vmc
and
- Explain the configuration, airspeed, and flight profile that the aeroplane must be in to successfully complete a one-engine inoperative overshoot.

I will be going over those with my instructor tomorrow afternoon.

My ride is also on the 30th!

Posted by: Blake on Monday, May 26, 2008 - 16:38:57