The stage that culls the most pilot candidates — and the one nobody lets you practise
Airlines run an online aptitude battery before a human ever reads your CV. This is a timed paper in the same format families — numerical, verbal, spatial orientation and aviation mental math — scored the way the real thing scores you: accuracy and pace, separately.
These are our own practice items, written in the publicly documented format families (Aon/cut-e, COMPASS, ADAPT, PILAPT). They are not real test items, and nobody selling you “the real questions” has them either — the providers do not release them. What transfers is the method and the clock.
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Scored on pace, not just answers
Candidate reports agree the online battery culls on speed. Every item carries its own target time, and your result separates what you got right from what you got right in time.
Generated fresh every run
Items are built procedurally from a seed, so there is no fixed bank to memorise. Re-run the same paper number to measure improvement, or take a new one to test the method.
Distractors that name your mistake
Each wrong option is a specific slip — dividing by the wrong leg, taking the headwind component for the crosswind. The review tells you which one you made.
What the batteries actually measure
Every provider builds the same two things differently: whether you can hold a method under a clock, and what a second task costs you while you do it. The first is what this paper trains. The second is the divided-attention drill — tracking, then tracking while doing arithmetic, and the gap between them is your capacity cost.