who still has flight engineers?

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Originally Posted by bafanguy

Originally Posted by FlyerJoe

Does anyone know if its still even possible to train as a Flight Engineer?

There is an outfit in AK operating DC6s that occasionally advertises for FEs but having a MTC background likely goes a long way toward that job.

That's Everts' Air Cargo out of Fairbanks. I'm fairly sure that if you show up there with an FAA Commercial Certificate with Instrument rating, they'll train you to be an FE. Or an FAA A&P with a certain amount of experience wrenching on multiengine airplanes with more than 800 HP engines.

I would guess that the same would be true of many of the cargo operators still operating 727s 747-200's etc.

Alternately, you could enlist in the Air Force of a country operating Aircraft with FEs The US Air Force, for example, operates C-130Hs, C-5s and KC-10's all of which require FEs.