easyJet

Direct Entry: the Simulator Assessment

Lesson 6 of 6•2 min read•3 exercises

Direct-entry candidates face five published stages: online application, online aptitude tests, application review, the non-technical assessment with group exercise and competency interview, and finally a simulator assessment — in easyJet's words, so the airline can see your technical standard of flying.

What to expect in the sim

easyJet publishes no profile of the session. It is typically an A320 full-flight simulator session flown both as pilot flying and pilot monitoring, with basic handling, raw-data instrument flying, a non-normal event and an ILS approach, and with monitoring performance weighted heavily. Whatever the exact profile, it measures what every airline sim assessment measures: trainability, scan discipline and composure rather than type mastery.

How to prepare

Review basic instrument flying and chair-fly standard profiles — climbs, descents, rate-one turns, a raw-data ILS — until the numbers are automatic.
Fly as pilot monitoring the way you would want your own PM to fly: clear callouts, early deviations caught, support without takeover.
Recover, don't dwell: a calm correction after a mistake consistently scores better than silent, tense perfection.
Keep your hands current: the Hand-Eye-Foot and Path Following exercises here maintain the tracking and divided-attention base between real cockpit or sim sessions.

One number to respect: an unsuccessful simulator or non-technical assessment means a twelve-month wait before reapplying. Book the assessment when you are ready, not when you are curious.

What the test looks like

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

Hand-Eye-Foot Coordination Test

Example: what the test looks like

You fly the blue aircraft over the runway and keep it centred inside the coloured target gate. Every few seconds a disturbance pushes it sideways, forward/backward, and rolls it — apply opposite yaw, pitch, and roll to bring it back, exactly like the drift-and-recover loop below. In Assessment mode the live score is hidden, mirroring real pilot assessments.

Assessment mode · demo

This preview flies itself — in the real test every correction is yours, via keyboard, game controller, or rudder pedals. Drift past the runway edges, the forward/backward band, or roll beyond 55° and you lose points.

Path Following Test

Multitasking Test

Practice the relevant tests

Assessment-grade exercises to practice the relevant competences.

4:00

Hand-Eye-Foot Coordination Test

A real-time three-axis coordination test. Keep the aircraft centred on the target runway while periodic disturbances push it left/right, forward/backward, and roll it from side to side. Best practised with a game controller or rudder pedals mapped to the three control axes.

6 minNeuro-SensomotoricGamepad

2/5

Path Following Test

A hand-eye coordination test of fine-motor precision, built on the continuous path-tracking format used across pilot aptitude screening. Steer a dot along a winding track from the green start to the red end without drifting off the path. The same route repeats each round so your improvement is measurable.

4 minNeuro-SensomotoricGamepad

2:14

PilotVeterinarianTeacher

Multitasking Test

Two tasks at once: scan number grids for duplicate pairs while answering spoken questions from your phonebook, agenda, mental math and word categories — some of which must be answered at an exact moment on the clock.

6 minIntellectual

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