PACE — the Pilot Assessment Competency Evaluation — was developed by Turkish Technology, a Turkish Airlines subsidiary, together with the airline and Istanbul University, and was unveiled in August 2025. It has already assessed more than 11,000 cockpit candidates, which makes it one of the highest-volume proprietary pilot aptitude tests in the industry — and, like all such tests, one whose task families reward systematic practice.
What PACE measures
Sustained attention: monitoring and scanning tasks where accuracy over time is the score that matters.
Spatial rotation and orientation: mental rotation and position-and-heading tasks.
Memory: short-term retention and recall under time pressure.
Psychomotor skills: coordination and tracking tasks measuring control precision.
Multitasking: stacked simple tasks that test how performance degrades under load.
Mathematics and physics knowledge: mental arithmetic and applied technical fundamentals.
How to prepare
Train each measured family directly. The Vigilance Test builds the monitoring stamina; Spatial Awareness covers rotation and orientation; Associative Memory trains the memory family; the Mental Maths game rebuilds calculator-free arithmetic while Technical Reasoning and Physics Knowledge refresh the physics layer; and the Multitasking Test, Hand-Eye-Foot Coordination Test and Complex Choice Reaction Test mirror the divided-attention and psychomotor formats. Spread practice across weeks rather than days — sustained-attention and psychomotor scores improve with accumulated hours, not cramming — and use your per-game trend lines to find and fix your weakest family before test day.