Multiengine Airplane Add-On Rating Lesson Plan

Special Cases • 14 CFR 61.63 and current FAA practical-test standards

A structured lesson plan for an airplane multiengine class-rating add-on, emphasizing systems, performance, engine-out aerodynamics, risk management, and practical-test proficiency.

Multiengine Airplane Add-On Rating Lesson Plan

Introduction

  • Schedule

    Topic:
    Time:
    Systems and Performance:
    1:30
    Engine-Out Aerodynamics:
    1:00
    Normal Operations:
    1:30
    Abnormal and Emergency Operations:
    2:00
    Practical-Test Review:
    1:00
    Planned Time:
    0:00

  • Attention Getter:

    • Ask what happens when the critical engine fails just after liftoff with the airplane slow, heavy, and improperly configured.

  • Motivator:

    • Multiengine safety depends less on the number of engines than on rapid recognition, correct control inputs, realistic performance expectations, and disciplined decisions.

  • Objective:

    • Prepare the applicant to demonstrate the knowledge, risk management, and proficiency required for the applicable multiengine airplane class rating.

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Multiengine Airplane Add-On Rating Lesson Plan

Materials

Multiengine Airplane Add-On Rating Lesson Plan

Instructor Actions

  • Part 1, Systems and Performance:

    • Teach engines, propellers, fuel, electrical, landing gear, environmental and anti-ice systems, limitations, loading, accelerate-stop/go concepts, single-engine climb, service ceiling, and realistic runway margins.

  • Part 2, Engine-Out Aerodynamics:

    • Explain critical engine factors, asymmetric thrust, VMC versus stall speed, bank and zero-sideslip concepts, drag sources, density altitude, configuration, loading, and loss-of-control prevention.

  • Part 3, Normal Operations:

    • Practice planning, preflight, starts, taxi, run-up, takeoffs, climbs, cruise, descents, approaches, landings, go-arounds, and checklist flows.

  • Part 4, Abnormal and Emergency Operations:

    • Teach immediate control, identification, verification, feathering or securing only when appropriate, restart considerations, single-engine maneuvering, instrument operations as applicable, emergency descent, rejected takeoff, and landing decisions.
    • Use conservative scenarios that never trade actual safety for simulated-engine-failure realism.

  • Part 5, Practical-Test Preparation:

    • Conduct a standards-based mock oral and flight review, including applicant-specific add-on task-table requirements.
Multiengine Airplane Add-On Rating Lesson Plan

Student Actions

  • Calculate multiengine performance and explain when continued flight is not realistic.
  • Recognize and control asymmetric thrust promptly, identify and verify the affected engine, and apply the checklist without sacrificing aircraft control.
  • Demonstrate normal, abnormal, and emergency tasks to the applicable standard.
Multiengine Airplane Add-On Rating Lesson Plan

Completion Standards

  • Meet the current FAA standard for the applicable AMEL or AMES add-on practical test.
  • Maintain directional control, appropriate airspeed, configuration awareness, checklist discipline, and sound reject/continue/land decisions.
Multiengine Airplane Add-On Rating Lesson Plan

Conclusion

  • Re-Motivation:

    • A multiengine rating adds capability only when engine-out judgment and proficiency are maintained.

  • Closure:

    • Review practical-test eligibility, aircraft-specific limitations, remaining deficiencies, and recurrent engine-out training.