What is a Multi-Engine Rating?
The Multi-Engine Rating qualifies you to operate aircraft with more than one engine, a necessary step toward the larger, faster and more capable aircraft used in commercial operations.
Beyond simply handling extra power, the rating teaches the systems knowledge and the asymmetric-flight skills that multi-engine flying demands, especially the handling and decision-making required if an engine fails.
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Flight Training Requirements
The practical training is concentrated and intensive, conducted on a multi-engine training aircraft with a certified instructor.
What this program gives you
Build a career in commercial aviation.
Become a more attractive candidate for airlines, charter operators, and private operators.
Gain the skills a multi-engine rating gives you for handling complex flight scenarios.
Master advanced flying techniques, including engine-failure handling, crosswind landings, and managing high speeds and descent rates.
Examinations & Your Pilot Journey
To obtain your Multi-Engine Rating, you must complete the required examinations. This milestone sits on a structured aviation career path.
Multi-Engine Skill Test
A practical check with a designated examiner covering both normal twin-engine operations and engine-failure handling. No additional written exam.
Your Path Beyond PPL
Your progression follows a structured pathway toward becoming a professional airline pilot.
Who Can Apply
To enrol in the Multi-Engine Rating, you must hold the following prerequisite qualifications.
A valid PPL (Instrument Rating recommended).
Class 1 medical certificate
English proficiency: ICAO English language proficiency, Level 4 minimum, is required.
Training fleet: Cessna 172, Piper PA-28, Beechcraft Baron 55, Diamond DA42.
Full requirements checklist
Hold a Private Pilot License (PPL) or Commercial Pilot License (CPL).
Complete at least 70 hours as Pilot in Command (PIC) on a single-engine aircraft and at least 6 hours of multi-engine training. If multi-engine training is combined with instrument training, the requirement rises to 15 hours on a multi-engine aircraft.
Pass a practical multi-engine test with an authorised examiner.
Submit your application to the SA-CAA and pay the required fees.
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A short montage from Sky Team Aviation Academy.
The hours you need to log
Meet all the core multi-engine rating requirements.
Complete additional flight hours on a multi-engine aircraft with a focus on instrument procedures.
Pass the practical multi-engine (IFR) flight test with an authorised examiner.
Complete all commercial examinations and instrument training before the proficiency test.
Hold a General Radio Telephony License.
Meet the requirements? The next step is your application.
Check your eligibility and applyWhat You Can Do With a Multi-Engine Rating
The Multi-Engine Rating qualifies you to operate multi-engine aircraft by day or night.
Fly multi-engine aircraft by day or night
Within your existing instrument privileges
Operated with the required crew; no twin solo
Requires a Commercial Pilot License
Student Accommodation
In this video, Sky Team explains how student accommodation is arranged.
Time to Complete
2 weeks
Your training timeline depends on how consistently you train and how quickly you progress.
Training frequency
Student availability
Weather conditions
Learning pace
Multi-Engine Rating Cost for Students in Egypt & the Gulf
The cost of obtaining a Multi-engine rating depends on your training pace, flight hours, and overall progression.
Your investment is tailored to your training plan.
Every student progresses differently, which means your total investment is influenced by how consistently you train and how efficiently you build your flight hours.
Get Your Personalized Cost Breakdown
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Request Pricing DetailsWhy Students Choose Sky Team
In this video, we explain why students choose Sky Team Aviation Academy.
Multi-Engine Rating FAQs
Common questions about MER training at SkyTeam Aviation.
What does the Multi-Engine Rating add?
Is there a written exam?
Can I fly a twin solo?
How long does it take?
What pilots earn — and why we will not print a number here
Pay is the question everyone arrives with, and it is the one where most of what you will read online is invented. There is no single pilot salary. What a pilot is paid depends on the airline, the aircraft, the seat, the hours flown in a given month and the country the contract is written in — and most of the figures circulating online name no source at all.
So this page will not print one. What we will say is what the Multi-Engine Rating changes about your position: it lets you fly aircraft with more than one engine, and that is what moves you along the ladder that pay follows. We have written separately about how pilot pay is actually built up — basic, housing, flight-hour allowances — and why two pilots on the same licence can be paid very differently. Read that before you judge any number you are quoted.
Where this takes you
Sky Team is an admissions and placement office: we place students with a flight academy in South Africa, and the academy delivers the training under its own civil aviation authority. What you leave with is a licence recognised on that authority's terms — not a job offer, because no training provider anywhere can offer you one.
What the Multi-Engine Rating does is open a specific door: it lets you fly aircraft with more than one engine. The next stage in Sky Team's training sequence is the commercial licence. We have Saudi students who have been through us and hold both the private and the commercial licence.
What comes after that is an airline's decision, not ours, and it turns on your hours, your ratings, your medical and your English. Anyone who tells you a training course comes with a seat at the end of it is selling you something we would not.
