Air France

Le PSY2 : le groupe et l'entretien à Roissy

La sélection · Lesson 4 of 4•2 min read•4 exercises

Le PSY2 se passe au service de sélection d'Air France, à Roissy, en sessions réparties sur plusieurs mois : vous recevez une date. Il ne contient aucune épreuve psychotechnique. Il réunit deux inventaires de personnalité, une épreuve de groupe et un entretien individuel, puis votre dossier passe devant la commission de recrutement.

Ce que l'entretien vérifie

Votre parcours, votre motivation, et votre connaissance précise du programme. Les faits des leçons Le programme Cadets et La formation et la suite sont la matière des questions : un contrat payé pendant la formation, une école partenaire que vous ne choisissez pas, une affectation chez Air France ou chez Transavia sans choix de la compagnie ni de l'avion. Préparez aussi pourquoi cette voie plutôt qu'une autre vers le même cockpit, le concours EPL par exemple, et un récit que vous seul pouvez raconter plutôt que des formules.

S'entraîner

Le groupe, l'entretien et les questionnaires se préparent dans le module PSY2 du cours ENAC Test Preparation : Le PSY2 et Le questionnaire de personnalité. Nos CRM Scenarios et le Situational Judgement Test travaillent la matière des discussions de groupe ; le Big Five Personality Test et le Forced-Choice Personality Questionnaire vous montrent le profil que le psychologue lira.

What the test looks like

A worked example from each exercise in this lesson, exactly as the test presents it.

CRM Scenarios

Example: one step of a scenario chain

Each scenario unfolds over two or three steps. At every step you choose one response; the reveal shows how each response would land with the crew, and names the CRM principle in play before the situation develops further.

Decision-makingTaxi out

The intersection shortcut

You are the First Officer. Taxiing out with a queue building behind you, the Captain says: "Let's take the intersection departure — saves us ten minutes." Your performance figures were calculated for the full runway length, and nobody has recomputed them.

One step of the chain — how do you respond?

A)Go along with it — the aircraft is light today and the margin is obviously huge.

1/4Very ineffectiveWorst response

The aircraft departs on numbers computed for a runway it isn't using — 'obviously fine' is doing the job the performance calculation exists to do.

B)State the fact and recommend an action: "Our figures are for the full length — happy to take the intersection once we've re-run the numbers, otherwise full length."

4/4Very effectiveBest response

The Captain nods, you re-run the figures in under a minute, and the shortcut is taken on data instead of optimism — concern raised, loop closed, nothing lost.

C)Ask a soft question — "are we okay from the intersection?" — and leave it at his answer.

3/4Effective

A probe is the right opening rung, but a reassuring "we're fine" ends it — the concern was voiced, yet the numbers still never get checked.

D)Say nothing now, but plan to reject the takeoff if the acceleration feels wrong.

2/4Ineffective

The safeguard moves from a calm recomputation at taxi speed to a split-second judgement at a hundred knots — the worst possible place to discover the margin was thin.

CRM principle — Assertive advocacy (PACE)

This step teaches ASSERTIVE ADVOCACY — the PACE model (Probe, Alert, Challenge, Emergency). The strongest response states the fact, names a limit and offers a workable path (B): that is advocacy pitched at the right rung, and it usually ends the problem in one exchange. A probe that accepts reassurance (C) starts the ladder but steps off it; silent monitoring with a rejection plan (D) trades a cheap fix now for an expensive decision at high speed; and quiet compliance (A) is the steep-gradient failure CRM training exists to remove. In the full game the situation then DEVELOPS into the next step, and your report profiles you across the four NOTECHS-style dimensions.

Situational Judgement Test

Big Five Personality Test

Forced-Choice Personality Questionnaire

Practice the relevant tests

Assessment-grade exercises to practice the relevant competences.

Thirty miles out, new runwayStep 2 of 2The change is accepted with extra track miles…The selector disagrees with the clearance you copied.What do you do?

AFinish the FMS page first — you are nearly done…

BCall it now, in standard form, and close the loop…

CAsk an open question: "What's our cleared altitude?"

DReach over and re-set the selector to 7,000 yourself…

CRM Scenarios

Work through evolving flight-deck situations in two or three steps. At each step you choose how to respond as a crewmember, then see how that response would land with the crew and which CRM principle is in play — authority gradient, closed-loop communication, PACE advocacy, shared mental model, workload management.

14 minPsychological

Wrong altitude setYou are the First Officer. You notice the Captain has set an altitude in the FCU that is 2,000 ft above the cleared level…

AReset the altitude to the cleared level yourself…

BSay, "Confirm cleared altitude was 8,000?…Most effective

CSay, "I think that altitude might be wrong," and wait…

DWait to see if ATC catches the level bust…Least effective

Situational Judgement Test

Read realistic cockpit and crew-room scenarios and judge how a professional flight crew would respond. A practice and reflection tool: after you commit, you compare your judgement with an expert reference and read the reasoning behind it. Play the classic format, or a chat presentation modelled on Aon's chatAssess.

Moderately Inaccurate

Neither Accurate Nor Inaccurate

Moderately Accurate

Very Accurate

2.Make friends easily

Very Inaccurate

Moderately Inaccurate

Neither Accurate Nor Inaccurate

Moderately Accurate

Very Accurate

Big Five Personality Test

A scientifically grounded personality inventory based on the IPIP-NEO-120. Rate 120 statements to map your profile across the five major personality domains — Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism — each broken down into six facets.

10 minPsychological

3 / 18

I express complex ideas in a way anyone can follow.MostLeast

I actively seek feedback on how I can improve.MostLeast

I notice small errors that others tend to overlook.MostLeast

Forced-Choice Personality Questionnaire

Practice the forced-choice personality format used in airline selection (Aon/cut-e shapes, SHL OPQ32r). Each block shows three equally positive statements — pick the one most like you and the one least like you, then see the relative trade-off profile your choices produce.

8 minPsychological

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