The scored gate of the scholarship selection is a skills test using COMPASS, the widely used pilot aptitude test from EPST. It is short, strictly timed and built from fixed task formats — which makes it one of the most preparable tests in aviation selection, and with up to 40 funded places attracting a large applicant pool, the candidates who have trained the formats hold a real edge.
The COMPASS task families
Control: hand-eye (and foot) coordination tracking tasks flown with a joystick.
Mathematics: mental arithmetic and applied calculations without a calculator.
Memory and orientation: short-term recall and instrument-style spatial interpretation.
Technical comprehension: physics and mechanics fundamentals.
Task management: stacked tasks measuring how your accuracy survives divided attention.
How to prepare
This platform has a dedicated COMPASS Test Preparation course covering each module, its scoring and its best-known strategy in depth — work through that alongside this course rather than duplicating the effort here. For daily training, the Mental Maths and Speed, Distance & Time games rebuild calculator-free speed, Spatial Awareness, Spatial Orientation and Technical Reasoning cover the orientation and physics layers, and the Multitasking Test and Hand-Eye-Foot Coordination Test mirror the task-management and control formats — the latter is best practised with a physical joystick, as the real test uses one.