Multi-Engine Rating — AMEL Ground School

About this course

This course prepares you for the Multi-Engine Land add-on rating practical test, with the depth and rigor expected of a professional candidate. Because the FAA does not require a separate multi-engine knowledge test, the burden of theory falls entirely on oral preparation and your ability to fly a precise, safe profile when an engine quits. We build that foundation here. You will develop a working command of the aerodynamics that make a twin behave differently from a single: why one engine is *critical*, how Vmc is defined and the eleven CFR 23 certification conditions behind it, how the loss of fifty percent of power costs roughly eighty percent of climb performance, and why a windmilling propeller can produce more drag than the airplane's entire fuselage. We then translate that theory into hardware — constant-speed and feathering propellers, governors, accumulators, counterweights, and the fuel, electrical, and pressurization systems typical of light twins. The back half of the course is procedural and regulatory: identify-verify-feather flows, the Vmc demonstration, drift-down and single-engine service ceiling, multi-engine weight and balance with its tighter CG envelopes, and the Part 61 and Part 91 rules that govern your rating. Every section closes with practice questions, and a 25-question final exam certifies your readiness for the oral.

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