Multi-Engine Rating

Welcome to the Multi-Engine Rating Course

The Multi-Engine Rating represents a key step in your journey as a pilot. This course is designed to equip you with the knowledge and critical thinking skills needed to safely and confidently operate multi-engine aircraft.

Whether you're preparing for a professional pilot career or broadening your flying capabilities, this ground school will lay the theoretical foundation required before you step into the cockpit for flight training.

What You'll Learn

By the end of this course, you will understand:

• Requirements to Hold a Multi-Engine Rating
  A detailed breakdown of what Transport Canada requires in terms of licensing, training, and skill demonstration.

• Benefits and Challenges of Multi-Engine Flying
  Understand how adding an engine can enhance performance, safety, and redundancy—but also introduce new aerodynamic and operational challenges.

• Weight and Balance Considerations
  Learn how loading affects center of gravity and control, especially in aircraft with more complex loading configurations.

• Performance Calculations
  How to interpret and apply performance charts, including takeoff and landing distances, climb rates, and critical engine-out performance metrics.

• Multi-Engine Aerodynamics
  Explore how the presence of two engines changes the aerodynamics of flight, including accelerated slipstream, P-factor, and yaw effects.

• Engine-Out Aerodynamics
  Learn to manage the loss of one engine, understand the critical engine concept, Vmc, and the techniques required to maintain control and performance under asymmetric thrust.

Course Format

This self-paced course is built for flexibility and engagement. It includes:

• Interactive graphic-based lessons

• Audio voice over so you can listen or read

• Knowledge check questions and exercises

Who This Course is For

This course is ideal for:

• Licensed pilots seeking to earn their Multi-Engine Rating

• CPL candidates working toward their commercial flight test

• Students preparing for in-aircraft multi-engine training

What’s Next

After completing this course you'll approach your first multi-engine lesson with confidence—ready to think critically, fly safely, and demonstrate your readiness for more complex aircraft operations.