(818) 290-8249 · Open 9 AM–9 PM, 7 Days a Week · ★★★★★ 4.9 · 500+ Reviews · Van Nuys Airport
The multi-engine rating is the moment a pilot becomes a professional, and the Seminole is the airplane that gets you there. With counter-rotating propellers and no critical engine, it is the industry-standard twin for learning engine-out flying the right way.
The Seminole's two 180-horsepower engines turn in opposite directions. That counter-rotating design cancels out the asymmetric thrust that makes many twins tricky, so there is no "critical engine" to complicate an engine failure — which makes it the ideal airplane to learn multi-engine flying safely and correctly.
It is the twin used by flight schools and universities across the country to train commercial and airline-bound pilots, and it is the airplane in which you will practice single-engine work, feathering, and the precision approaches that a multi-engine checkride demands.
Learn the twin's fuel, electrical, and propeller systems, plus the aerodynamics of engine-out flight.
Practice identifying, verifying, and feathering a failed engine — the core skill of multi-engine flying.
Fly single-engine approaches and the precision maneuvers your checkride requires, to standard.
Demonstrate it all to an examiner and add multi-engine privileges to your certificate.
Engine failures are the heart of multi-engine training — and the sim is the safest, most efficient place to drill them again and again. Our Redbird MCX lets you practice identifying and securing a failed engine until the response is automatic, with approved time counting toward your training.
Add the multi-engine rating that professional flying is built on. Seven days a week at Van Nuys.
Real students, real first flights, real ratings — straight from Google and Yelp.
The fastest way to know if the left seat is for you is to stand on the flight line. Book a free consultation — or reach us whichever way you like.
Tour the school, meet your instructors, sit in the cockpit, and leave with a personal training plan and exact pricing. Your Discovery Flight fee is credited toward training when you enroll within 24 hours.
One minute, a few details, fast answers from a real person on our team.
