Excel At Your Airline Assessment

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Want to ensure that you stand out during your assessment for all the right reasons?

Expert Support for Your Airline Assessment

Are you a newly qualified pilot chasing your first airline job, a current pilot looking to move airline, or a military pilot making the transition to commercial flying? Flight Deck Wingman can help. We have extensive experience supporting pilots from around the world who are looking to land their first airline job or switch airlines, and we understand just how important it is to get it right. Your training is delivered by Wingman Andrew, a current airline pilot, former military fast-jet pilot and experienced recruiter, who will work closely with you to help you translate all of your hard-earned experience into a clear, persuasive presentation of your key competencies for any pilot interview and selection process.

Inside You'll Find:

£ 399

one off

Full day of training and practical assessment to pass your pilot interview and group assessment
Extensive debriefs and tailored individual feedback
Free re-observation to refresh your knowledge
Free preparation eBook and extensive training material
Free pilot aptitude testing

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What's included and booking conditions

What's included?

What’s included?

Module 1: What evidencing a competency means. This is the key to a successful assessment and forms the foundation of your days training.
Module 2: Airline Ethos Training. Understanding an airline and its ethos is key to success. Our techniques will teach you how to transmit this at interview.
Module 3: Interview Training. We know that you know that demonstrating core airline competencies is vital. We will train you in all of the core competencies you need to shine during your pilot interview, including easy to follow frameworks to answer those tricky pilot interview questions.
Module 4: Group Exercise Training. Crew Resource Management and Human Factors are vital in the airline pilot world, working as a team to achieve a safe and successful outcome. We will ensure that you understand the key skills to shine during this the Group Exercise process designed to select the crucial skills required by its pilots.
Module 5: Practical Group Exercise Assessment. Together, you and your team mates will work together to solve two very different fictitious scenarios. These group exercises are extremely representative of a real pilot selection process. Get ready for an in-depth post flight debrief from your Wingman!
Module 6: Interview Practical. An opportunity to practise navigating those tricky pilot interview questions! Flight Deck Wingman will provide you with invaluable feedback and support, plus you’ll have the chance to watch the other course members deliver their answers – a real benefit to all on the course.
Module 7: Post Flight Debrief. Your Wingman will be by your side to talk everything airline and answer any other questions you might have about life in the airline world.
Pilot Aptitude Testing. We’ve teamed up with SurePilot to provide you with some aptitude testing practice. You’ll be provided with full details of how to access this aptitude testing with your course.
Free eBook. All clients that choose to book onto our Airline Assessment Preparation Group Course will receive a free copy of our eBook. It’s packed full of training techniques and practical examples that will form an essential part of your training with us and doubles as a refresher ahead of any selection process.¹
¹£PRICE of eBook non-refundable if you subsequently cancel or curtail your training.

How it works

Book your course at the link above and we’ll be in touch as soon as the course receives the minimum course booking numbers. We’ll refund you if the course doesn’t reach the minimum numbers by the scheduled course date.

Free refresher course!

Re-observe for Free!

We know how much you’ll want to feel ready for your assessment – and we don’t want you worrying about forgetting the ‘Techniques Not Tip Offs’ you’ll learn on your course. That’s why, once you’ve attended a paid Assessment Preparation Group Course, we give you the opportunity to come back and re-observe a future course of the same type, completely free of charge.

It’s our way of helping you keep everything fresh. Places are offered on a first-come, first-served basis, subject to availability, and each client is entitled to one free re-observation place. Full details are set out in our Terms & Conditions.

Location, Dates and Booking Conditions

Training locations and dates

You can find all available dates and locations for courses at the bottom of the page when you go to book your place. If no dates are showing, then more dates will be added soon – please check back regularly or follow our WhatsApp Broadcast Channel to be notified first of new course dates. Our courses are usually run in Farnham, Surrey.

Booking Terms and Conditions ¹

Before booking, please note our cancellation policy below. This is a summary extract from our full Terms and Conditions, which apply to all bookings.

A course date is confirmed once three participants have booked onto that specific date. We will email you to notify you when your course is confirmed. Until that confirmation email is sent, you are entitled to a full refund on request.

After confirmation, cancellations made more than 10 days before the course start date will receive a 50% refund; cancellations made 10 days or fewer before the course start date are non-refundable. Timing is calculated from the date we receive your written cancellation request to the scheduled course start date.

Cancellation or failure to attend, for any reason, does not entitle you to reschedule or transfer your booking to a later course date. The refund terms above are your only entitlement in these circumstances.

If a course date does not reach the minimum of three participants, we will contact you to offer either a transfer to an alternative course date or a full refund.

¹ Current serving military personnel will be offered a full refund at any stage due to service reasons. Evidence to support cancellation will be required.

Frequently Asked Questions

We get asked a lot of questions about our Airline Assessment Preparation Course as we strive to help pilots join their airline of choice.

Will this airline assessment preparation course help me to pass any pilot assessment?

Yes! Our ‘Techniques Not Tip Offs’ approach is built around reliable, easy-to-use interview and group exercise techniques that work for any airline assessment process – rather than trying to second-guess a specific airline’s format. You’ll learn how to understand what’s genuinely being assessed at each stage and how to evidence the competencies recruiters are looking for, so you can walk into your assessment prepared and confident, whatever it involves.

What questions are asked in a pilot interview?

Airline interviews typically draw on a few recognisable categories of question: getting-to-know-you questions, scenario-based questions, questions about the industry and the specific company, competency-based questions, and a closing “any questions for us?” stage. Each is looking for something slightly different, and knowing what that is makes all the difference to how you respond. Our course trains you in clear techniques for tackling questions across every one of these categories, so you’re ready for whatever comes up.

What do airlines look at when hiring pilots?

Beyond meeting their mandatory entry requirements, airlines use the assessment process to look for evidence that you have the skills and qualities – known as competencies – they need from you, both as a pilot and as an employee. These include things like communication, teamwork, decision-making, and commercial awareness. Crucially, it’s not enough simply to possess these qualities; you need to be able to evidence them clearly throughout the process. Our course trains you in exactly that – the core competencies airlines are looking for, and how to demonstrate them convincingly.

How do I prepare for a group exercise?

You can’t know in advance exactly what a group exercise will involve, so the best preparation is understanding the process rather than rehearsing anything. That means learning how these exercises work, what recruiters are actually assessing, and how to effectively evidence competencies throughout whatever the task turns out to be. Our coaching gives you clear, repeatable techniques for exactly that, so you walk in knowing how to add value and stand out for the right reasons.

How do I prepare for an airline interview?

Thoroughly, and well in advance! Starting early is one of the best things you can do. You’ll want to make sure your technical knowledge, your company knowledge, and your ability to evidence competencies for the non-technical elements of the interview are all sound. We’d strongly advise against waiting until you’re called for an interview before you begin preparing – by then, time is against you.

If your interview is coming up soon, our Academy Interview & Group Exercise course is a great place to start – it’s online and self-paced, so you can work through the essentials in your own time, at whatever pace your timescale allows. And for fully immersive, hands-on preparation, our Airline Assessment Preparation Group Course is excellent prep, giving you a full day of interview and group exercise training, including assessed and de-briefed practical exercises.

Why do airlines and flight schools use group exercises?

Because flying is a team activity, and no amount of technical skill makes up for poor teamwork on the flight deck. A group exercise lets recruiters see how you actually behave with others – how you communicate, listen, influence and contribute under pressure – in a way an interview simply can’t. It’s one of the most revealing parts of an assessment, which is exactly why airlines rely on it and why it’s worth preparing for properly.

What if I find group exercises really daunting?

That’s completely normal – for many people it’s the most unfamiliar part of the whole process. The antidote is understanding: once you know how these exercises work and what’s being assessed, most of the anxiety falls away, because you’re no longer walking into the unknown. Our coaching is designed to build exactly that confidence, so instead of dreading the group exercise, you know how to approach it.