Julian Scarfe wrote:
"Mike Rapoport" wrote in message
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2) No S-P Multi-engine IFR with MEA's higher than the aircraft's SE
performance

This is pretty stupid. It ignores the fact that if the aircraft is at the
MEA and loses an engine (and MEA is above its SE ceiling) that the
aircraft will travel hundreds of miles before reaching the SE ceiling. It
will also reach it absolute SE ceiling which is much higher than the SE
service ceiling in the manual. It also ignores the fact that no piston
twin and few turboprops have enough single engine climb gradient to reach
the MEA before hitting something. In other words, it doesn't make much
difference what the SE service ceiling is.


The Single-Pilot bit puzzles me too. Surely this is a performance issue.
Does it really take two pilots to work out whether you're going to hit the
mountain or not?

Julian


This reminds me of the "Far Side" cartoon showing two pilots discussing
why there is a mountain goat in the clouds.