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Multi-Engine Add-On: Scrutinize the School

Multi-engine training is more than just learning how to fly the airplane with one engine shut down - however, learning how to fly when one prop is stationary is definitely a major part of it. This is a screenshot from Sporty's new Mutli-Engine Training Course.

It’s that tiny, niggling detail between you and the professional pilot job or you and the traveling machine that you’ve wanted for years—the multi-engine rating. It’s the schizophrenic rating—great because there’s no written test and awful because you’ll be shelling out a boatload of money every hour you fly the trainer. 

We surveyed the market for multi-engine training for the pilot who needs the rating for a flying job as we’ll as the prospective owner of a twin to see what’s out there in the flight school world, what the rating is likely to cost, what you should know going into flight training and what you can do with the rating after you get it. 

Rick Durden

Senior Editor Rick Durden has written for Aviation Consumer since 1994 and specializes in aviation law. Rick is an active CFII and holds an ATP with type ratings in the Douglas DC-3 and Cessna Citation. He is the author of The Thinking Pilot’s Flight Manual or, How to Survive Flying Little Airplanes and Have a Ball Doing It, Vols. 1 & 2.