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A learner can plan and carry out an OEI procedure, but still needs occasional instructor prompts to recognize and correct an airspeed deviation. On the FAA maneuver/procedure assessment scale, which rating belongs on the lesson record?
Correct answer: A - Practice
A twin has identical engines and propellers mounted symmetrically on the wings, with both propellers rotating clockwise as viewed from the cockpit. During a high-power climb at a positive angle of attack, why does P-factor make left-engine failure more adverse for directional control than right-engine failure?
Correct answer: D - The right propeller's resultant thrust acts farther from the aircraft centerline, producing a greater yawing moment.
An MEI is checking a departure escape route that requires an OEI climb gradient of 250 feet per nautical mile. For the planned weight and atmospheric conditions, the POH gives 360 feet per minute at VYSE, with the failed propeller feathered and the aircraft clean. At that speed, indicated airspeed is 90 knots and true airspeed is 100 knots. A steady 20-knot headwind is forecast along the route. Considering the stated gradient criterion alone, what does the calculation show?
Correct answer: B - 270 feet per nautical mile; the predicted climb meets the criterion.
In smooth, unpressurized cruise at 7,000 feet MSL, both occupants of a piston twin develop headache, nausea, and unusual drowsiness shortly after cabin heat is selected. A conventional fingertip pulse oximeter reads 98%. Which explanation best accounts for the shared symptoms and the apparently reassuring reading?
Correct answer: C - Carbon monoxide exposure; a conventional pulse oximeter can overestimate oxygen saturation and fail to reveal the hazard.
An appropriately rated, current MEI has 3 hours of PIC time in a particular light-twin make and model. A pilot who already holds an AMEL rating requests only a flight review in that aircraft, not training toward another certificate or rating. All other applicable qualifications are satisfied. How does the 5-hour make-and-model requirement in 14 CFR 61.195(f) apply?
Correct answer: B - It does not bar this review; the requirement applies to training required for issuance of a certificate or rating.
An MEI is preparing a lesson to isolate the effect of landing-gear drag on OEI climb. The proposed comparison is a clean climb at VYSE followed by a gear-down climb 10 knots below VYSE, with the operating engine at the same power. Which revision would make the comparison valid?
Correct answer: A - Compare the two gear configurations at the same airspeed and operating-engine power, with the other conditions unchanged.
Before takeoff, a learner compares the available runway with the POH accelerate-stop distance and finds a substantial surplus. The learner concludes, 'We have enough runway to continue if an engine fails after liftoff.' The POH provides no accelerate-go chart. What is missing from that conclusion?
Correct answer: D - An OEI climb-and-obstacle assessment; accelerate-stop data address rejecting the takeoff, not continuing it.
A twin is established on final to its assigned runway in day VMC when both communication radios fail. The crew selects transponder code 7600 and sees a steady green light directed at them from the tower. The runway is clear and the approach remains stable. How should the crew act on that signal?
Correct answer: C - Continue to land; a steady green light is the tower's landing clearance to an aircraft in flight.
While recovering from a power-off stall in a twin, a learner lowers the nose and the stall warning stops. The learner then pulls sharply to regain the lost altitude; buffet and the warning return, although indicated airspeed is higher than at the first stall. The instructor should identify this as:
Correct answer: A - A secondary stall from renewed excessive angle of attack; unload before attempting to regain altitude.
During a VMC demonstration at a safe altitude in a normally aspirated twin, the stall warning sounds while airspeed is still above the red line. The learner is maintaining the entry heading and has rudder travel remaining. Which response meets the FAA flight-instructor standard?
Correct answer: C - Recover now by reducing operating-engine power sufficiently and decreasing angle of attack, without powering the simulated failed engine.
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