Beyond PACE, Turkish Airlines' selection includes English-language and technical assessment, a simulator evaluation and panel interviews. The airline publishes little detail about these stages, and their content varies by entry route — a cadet is assessed for trainability, a rated pilot for competence — so prepare the fundamentals that hold regardless of the exact format.
What holds across formats
English: aviation English proficiency is non-negotiable at an airline with Turkish Airlines' network; expect it to be sampled both formally and simply by interviewing in English.
Technical knowledge: pitched to your level — principles of flight and basic physics for ab-initio candidates, type and operational knowledge for experienced pilots.
The simulator: basic handling, instrument scan and response to instruction; improvement between attempts is weighted heavily.
The interviews: motivation, competency-based questions and consistency with everything earlier stages recorded about you.
How to prepare
Refresh your technical fundamentals honestly at your own level, practise interviewing aloud in English until fluency survives mild stress, and chair-fly basic instrument profiles before the simulator. For the interview itself, prepare true, compact stories for the classic competencies and know why Turkish Airlines specifically. The Big Five personality test on this platform is a useful mirror before a panel holds one up: understand your own profile, then present it consistently — cross-checked inconsistency, not weakness, is what fails candidates at this stage.