Physics Knowledge

Overview

Physics Knowledge measures whether you hold the foundational, high-school-level physics that pilot ground schools assume before theoretical flight training — the ability to reason about force and motion, fluids and materials, electricity and magnetism, light, heat and waves, and to predict how a described physical situation will behave. It is a knowledge test rather than a pure aptitude test: the items reward conceptual understanding over rote calculation, so you rarely need a calculator, but you do need to know the principle at work. As used by the DLR pilot selection (BU physics / technical comprehension), the ADAPT / Symbiotics Progressive Physics Test, the EPST COMPASS Tech-test (described by EPST as a technical-comprehension physics test) and comparable batteries (e.g. the AFOQT Physical Science subtest), you work through timed multiple-choice items of increasing difficulty across the core physics domains. Wizz Air's TestAir360 sets ten physics questions in twelve minutes, some multiple choice and some typed, with a calculator allowed, weighted to electricity, energy and forces; the TestAir360 preset reproduces that paper. This is a familiarisation and practice tool, not a validated assessment — the target scores are provisional practice anchors, not passing scores.

Assessments

Tested in assessments at Lufthansa Group, Transavia and Etihad.

Could show up in DLR, ADAPT, COMPASS and TestAir360-based selections.

Airline mappings are based on public information and may change.