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.