Where the Next Twin-Rated Pilots Get Their Hours

Epic Flight Academy, the nation's largest Part 141 flight school, has added Tecnam P2006T twin-engine aircraft to its training fleet. The move expands the school's capacity for multiengine instruction, the phase of training every pilot logs before qualifying for a cabin-class twin or a turboprop, let alone a jet type rating. The P2006T is built as an efficient trainer, the kind of airframe suited to repeated pattern work and checkride prep rather than long-range flying. For an owner whose flight department will eventually hire from this pipeline, it's a small but concrete signal about where multiengine-rated pilots are coming from.

With reporting from Flying.