The Multi Engine Rating
If you are looking to go on to complete your CPL, it is often most advisable to hold off on this rating until you go for your CPL training as part of the course requires you to complete 5 hours of complex flight time (ie. in an aircraft with retractable undercarriage and constant speed propellers). By waiting until your CPL, not only are you doing some of the 25 hour CPL training, but you are also getting your Multi Rating thus saving valuable cash. As part of the multi-engine rating you will mostly be learning how to handle the extra complexities of having several engines. The benefit of multi-engine flying is that should you have a complete failure of an engine you have another engine to help you stay aloft, but since most multi-engine aircraft have the engines either side of the fuselage, this can cause difficulties for the uninitiated. Most of the training focusses on controlling engine failures and missed approaches/go-arounds with one engine and dealing with engine failures shortly after take off. With a little training you will have this cracked and these are skills you will carry into your instrument training when you will learn to perform these actions without visual reference, ie. on instruments alone. |
