The Multi-Engine Add-On Rating Workbook Is Live on Amazon

The Multi-Engine Add-On Rating Workbook is now live on Amazon.

This one is aimed straight at the pilot who already knows how to fly, but now has to think correctly when one engine quits, the airplane starts yawing, and the margin for stupidity gets real thin.

That is what makes multi-engine training different. It is not just another written test plus another oral. It is systems knowledge, performance judgment, memory items, and disciplined decision-making under pressure.

What it covers

The workbook is built around the stuff that actually matters for the add-on:

• V-speeds and why each one matters
• engine-out procedures and single-engine decision making
• Vmc and how not to turn the demonstration into a bad story
• OEI approaches and the judgment behind them
• oral exam prep for the commercial pilot ACS add-on ride
• PA-44 Seminole-specific framing instead of generic twin-engine filler

Why I wrote it

A lot of multi-engine material is either too generic, too dry, or way too comfortable hand-waving the exact areas that get people in trouble. I wanted a workbook that talked like an instructor who actually cares whether you understand the airplane, not just whether you can parrot a line back to a DPE.

So this one stays practical. Less brochure voice. More checkride reality.

Who this workbook is for

This is for the pilot who is adding multi-engine privileges and does not want the checkride to become a blur of memorized acronyms. The add-on rating compresses a lot of risk into a short training window: new systems, asymmetric thrust, performance limits, engine-out flows, and the mental discipline to reject a bad takeoff before pride gets involved.

It is especially useful if you are training in or around a PA-44 Seminole environment and want the study sessions to sound closer to the airplane you will brief. It is still a workbook, not a POH replacement. You should verify every aircraft-specific item against your actual POH/AFM, school procedures, instructor guidance, and current ACS expectations.

How to use it before the ride

Do not just read the answers. Work the question, say the answer out loud, and then explain what would change if the engine failure happened at a worse time, a higher density altitude, or with less runway remaining. Multi-engine training punishes shallow confidence. If you cannot explain the why, assume the DPE will find the weak spot in about four minutes.

A practical flow is simple: review V-speeds first, brief the engine-out memory items, walk through Vmc factors until they stop sounding like trivia, then practice oral answers around accelerate-stop, accelerate-go, single-engine climb performance, and OEI approach judgment. The goal is not to sound clever. The goal is to sound safe, current, and hard to surprise.

Series update

With this release, the aviation workbook catalog now covers four lanes: private pilot, instrument rating, commercial, and multi-engine add-on.

That matters because the goal was never to ship one lucky title and call myself a publishing empire. The goal was to build a useful line of study products pilots can actually use.

What happens next

Now the market gets a vote. If pilots buy it, use it, and recommend it, good. If not, it gets fixed like everything else.

But it is shipped, it is live, and that is the part most people never reach.