Day 2 pairs a personality questionnaire with a three-to-four-hour simulator assessment. Note that DLR certificate holders graded A or B skip the personality test along with the COMPASS — everyone else should treat both elements as fully scored.
What is assessed
The personality questionnaire: a standardised inventory with consistency checks, read later alongside your interview and simulator behaviour — so honest, consistent answers matter more than flattering ones.
Basic handling in the simulator: holding headings, altitudes and speeds, and flying instructed profiles without automation doing the work.
Trainability: assessors weight how quickly you apply a correction the first time it is given far more heavily than an error-free first attempt.
Composure under workload: your scan, your communication and your recovery after mistakes as tasks stack up over several hours.
How to prepare
You cannot cram a personality, but you can prepare self-knowledge: take the Big Five test on this platform first, so your own profile holds no surprises, and then answer the real questionnaire honestly. For the simulator, train your hands and eyes: the hand-eye-foot coordination and path following games here build exactly the divided-attention control the assessment measures. Review basic instrument flying theory, chair-fly standard climbs, descents and rate-one turns until the numbers are automatic, and if possible book an hour in a fixed-base simulator beforehand. On the day, verbalise what you are doing and correct errors without dwelling on them — a calm recovery scores better than silent perfection.