Multi-Engine Training
Two pathways. One commitment to precise, confident, safety-focused multi-engine flying.
Multi-Engine Training
Expand your capabilities. Advance your aviation career.
Multi-engine flying introduces a new level of aircraft performance, complexity, and responsibility. Operating an airplane with more than one engine requires a thorough understanding of aircraft systems, performance limitations, asymmetric thrust, and the decision-making skills necessary to manage normal and abnormal situations.
At Full Throttle Aero, our multi-engine programs emphasize technical knowledge, precision, and confident, safety-focused operations. Whether you are adding commercial multi-engine privileges or preparing to teach in multi-engine airplanes, our goal is to prepare you for real-world flying—not just the practical test.
Commercial Multi-Engine Add-On
Expand your commercial pilot privileges and prepare for more complex aircraft operations.
EXPLORE THE ADD-ONMulti-Engine Instructor (MEI)
Build the instructional judgment and proficiency to teach multi-engine flying safely.
EXPLORE MEI TRAININGCommercial Multi-Engine Add-On
Take the next step toward professional aviation.
Earning commercial multi-engine privileges expands the types of airplanes you may fly as a commercial pilot and is an important milestone for many pilots pursuing careers in corporate aviation, charter operations, and the airline industry.
Multi-engine flying is about more than adding another engine. It introduces new challenges in aircraft performance, systems management, engine-out procedures, and aeronautical decision-making. Understanding how a multi-engine airplane performs—especially when one engine becomes inoperative—is essential to safe and proficient flight.
At Full Throttle Aero, this training emphasizes systems knowledge, precise aircraft control, recognition and management of engine failures, and disciplined checklist use. You'll develop proficiency in normal, abnormal, and emergency operations, including single-engine performance and instrument procedures where applicable.
Our objective is to develop a confident, capable multi-engine pilot who understands not only how to perform each maneuver, but why it matters and how to apply that knowledge in real-world operations.
Training Focus
- Multi-engine aerodynamics, systems, and limitations
- Performance planning, including single-engine performance
- Normal, abnormal, and emergency procedures
- Engine-failure recognition, aircraft control, and decision-making
- Checklists, crew coordination concepts, and practical-test preparation
Eligibility & FAA Pathway
For an airplane multiengine land class rating added to an existing commercial pilot certificate, the FAA generally requires the appropriate training, instructor endorsement, and a practical test. Under 14 CFR §61.63(c), there is no universal additional minimum flight-hour requirement or additional knowledge test for this class-rating add-on.
Requirements and test tasks depend on your current certificates and ratings. We will review your experience and applicable FAA standards before training begins.
Multi-Engine Instructor (MEI)
Master multi-engine flying. Learn to teach it with confidence.
Becoming a Multi-Engine Instructor is an important step for flight instructors looking to expand their teaching qualifications and professional aviation experience.
The MEI qualification allows appropriately certificated flight instructors to provide instruction in qualifying multi-engine airplanes. It requires more than proficiency in operating a multi-engine aircraft—it demands the ability to teach complex systems, anticipate student errors, manage risk, and maintain situational awareness in a demanding training environment.
At Full Throttle Aero, our MEI program focuses on advanced multi-engine proficiency and the instructional techniques needed to teach safely and effectively. You'll learn to explain multi-engine aerodynamics and performance, demonstrate and teach normal and abnormal procedures, recognize and manage student errors, and conduct simulated engine-failure training within safe operating limits.
Special emphasis is placed on aircraft control, single-engine performance limitations, critical decision-making, and the judgment required to manage instructional scenarios without compromising safety.
Our goal is to prepare you to become more than an instructor who can demonstrate maneuvers: we want you to be a knowledgeable, confident, safety-focused educator capable of preparing the next generation of professional multi-engine pilots.
Training Focus
- Teaching multi-engine aerodynamics, systems, and performance
- Right-seat instructional proficiency and demonstration techniques
- Risk management during simulated engine failures
- Student-error recognition and timely instructor intervention
- Scenario-based instruction, lesson planning, and checkride preparation
Eligibility & FAA Pathway
Applicants typically hold a flight instructor certificate and the appropriate commercial or ATP multiengine class rating. An additional flight instructor rating requires applicable training, endorsements, and a practical test under 14 CFR §61.183 and §61.191. The exact requirements depend on ratings already held.
There is no single universal FAA minimum number of flight hours for every MEI add-on applicant. We tailor the plan to your qualifications and proficiency.
Individualized Training & Pricing
Multi-engine training costs depend on the training airplane, its operating rate, instructor availability, your existing experience, and the proficiency needed for the practical test. The published Cessna 150, 152, 172, and 182 rental rates do not apply to multi-engine airplanes.
We will confirm multi-engine aircraft availability, the applicable rental and instruction rates, and a personalized training estimate before scheduling. No fixed-price package or guaranteed completion time is implied.
REQUEST A TRAINING CONSULTATIONFAA references: 14 CFR §61.63, §61.183, and §61.191. Applicable Airman Certification Standards govern practical testing.