COMPASS Test for Pilots

The COMPASS/CCT test measures the following skills in a candidate:

• Psychomotor Skills: The ability to coordinate physical movement with mental processes, essential for handling controls and responding quickly in dynamic environments.
• Multitasking: The capacity to efficiently manage multiple tasks or sources of information simultaneously, a crucial skill for pilots managing complex flight systems.
• Stress tolerance: The ability to maintain calm, focus, and effectiveness under high-pressure situations, ensuring safe and rational decision-making.
• Spatial orientation: The understanding of one's position relative to other objects or reference points, critical for navigation and manoeuvring in three-dimensional space.
• Logic and reasoning: The capability to analyse information, recognize patterns, and make sound decisions, supporting problem-solving in real-time.
• Communication skills: The ability to clearly convey and receive information, vital for coordination with crew, air traffic control, and passengers.
• Mathematical skills: Proficiency in calculations and numerical analysis, needed for tasks such as fuel estimation, navigation, and interpreting flight data.

These skills will give the candidates an idea on what a pilot has to go through in the real world. Of course, this is not the only set of skills that is required, but it is an important one.