Why are multiple engines different?

Bob Gardner writes:

Another aspect of the question...the requirements for the basic license
require a certain amount of solo flight, and it is hard to imagine any
insurance carrier covering solo flight in a twin by a student pilot. Not
impossible, just unlikely.

Why would they be more unlikely to cover solo flight in a twin? Is it
more dangerous?

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Mxsmanic wrote:

Why would they be more unlikely to cover solo flight in a twin? Is it
more dangerous?

yes. For a number of reasons already mentioned by others, i.e., there
are a lot more things that can get wrong, and the decision process is
more complex (stats I have seen suggest that you are more likely to die
if you loose an engine in a twin than if you loose one in a single);
more over, multi- aircraft tend to be bigger, faster, etc.

Even with a multi- rating it is not easy to find a twin that you
can rent on your own.

--Sylvain

Sylvain wrote:
Mxsmanic wrote:

Why would they be more unlikely to cover solo flight in a twin? Is it
more dangerous?

yes. For a number of reasons already mentioned by others, i.e., there
are a lot more things that can get wrong, and the decision process is
more complex (stats I have seen suggest that you are more likely to die
if you loose an engine in a twin than if you loose one in a single);
more over, multi- aircraft tend to be bigger, faster, etc.

Even with a multi- rating it is not easy to find a twin that you
can rent on your own.

Really? I've never had a problem.

Emily wrote:
Even with a multi- rating it is not easy to find a twin that you
can rent on your own.

Really? I've never had a problem.

So far, the one I am renting (a Duchess) also happens to be
the aircraft with which I did my rating, which simplifies a
lot my complying with the insurance requirements. Actually
I did the long cross country (did my initial commercial in
a multi-) with a 310 -- but this aircraft -- or anything more
ambitious than the Duchess -- is now out of my reach in terms
of number of hours required by the insurances. For some
reasons insurances seem to keep moving the bar as I am
progressing along :-)

By renting I mean flying it solo or with passengers; some
places are happy to let you fly their multi- but only with
one of their instructors (e.g., to complete a rating), a
bit like what seems to happen with floatplanes.

Where are you flying if I may ask?

--Sylvain

Sylvain wrote:
Emily wrote:
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Where are you flying if I may ask?

Currently I'm flying a Duchess out of ADS, but I've also been able to
solo a Seneca and Aztec in other places.

Sylvain writes:

Even with a multi- rating it is not easy to find a twin that you
can rent on your own.

The assumption here is that money is no object. In real life, I
couldn't even afford to buy a brochure on a twin-engine aircraft.

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