These are the questions people type into search, answered without a fake pass rate. The real selection tests are confidential. This site trains the skill types and compares you only with your own earlier sessions.
If your question is about a vacancy, medical, or age cutoff, the announcement beats this page. FAA sources are linked from the long guide. EUROCONTROL's FEAST pages are linked from what is on the FEAST test.
Practice past the free drill
One free drill in each family stays free. Paid drills are the harder variants.
It is hard for most applicants because the tasks are timed and they stack. The items themselves are not trivia. The FAA's qualifications page says fewer than 10% of applicants are accepted into training. That figure is the whole pipeline, not a published ATSA pass rate.
The live items are confidential. The FAA describes the ATSA as a computer-based test of cognitive skills, about 3.5 hours, taken in person. Public descriptions talk about memory, attention, and working under time pressure. These drills train those skill types. They are not the FAA's questions.
You can get used to the kinds of tasks. EUROCONTROL runs a free official familiarisation platform and says those tasks are not the live test. This site is separate from that platform. Use both if you want. Neither one contains the confidential items.
Yes, for most people who apply. The hard part is speed and load, then a medical, a background check, and academy training. The FAA says fewer than 10% of applicants are accepted into training. That is not the same number as an ATSA pass rate, which the FAA does not publish.
For an FAA trainee: apply in a window, wait for an ATSA invitation, clear medical and security, then several months at the FAA Academy in Oklahoma City, then about one to three years of on-the-job training before facility certification. Europe is a different calendar, set by the provider.
No. The real tests are confidential. These drills are new every time, built in your browser from a random seed. They train the same kinds of skill. A score is compared only with your own earlier sessions.
There is no public question bank. Study the skill types: a moving traffic picture, fast reactions when the rule changes, several tasks under a clock, and short spoken instructions. Use the 4-week plan on this site, and read the FAA's own hiring page so you know the format they describe.
The FAA does not publish a stable ATSA pass rate. Results are reported in bands. The FAA's 2026 hiring page treats Well Qualified as the bar that moves you on. Anyone quoting a single percentage without a year and a document is guessing. This site will not do that.
Well Qualified is the top band, and the FAA's hiring material treats it as what you need to move forward. How many people reach it changes with the applicant pool. Practice can make the pace less strange. It cannot promise the band.
The Air Traffic Skills Assessment, ATSA, is the FAA's pre-employment aptitude test for air traffic control specialist trainees. It is not a controller licence exam and it is not the academy course. You sit it only if the FAA invites you after you apply on USAJOBS.
The selection is the small gate. After that comes paid academy training and one to three years of on-the-job training before you are a certified controller. The work is shift work. The FAA's own hiring page says so.
The FAA's controller workforce plan is the document that tracks training losses, and the figure moves by year. This page does not freeze a number from a secondary article. Training is a second filter after the aptitude test. Look up the current plan on faa.gov.
They are different jobs with different tests, medicals, and training. A comparison of 'harder' does not help you prepare. If you want the controller path, prepare for the controller test you were invited to.
There is no single public pass rate that covers the FAA, EUROCONTROL, and every national provider. For the FAA, do not confuse 'accepted into training' (the FAA says under 10% of applicants) with an ATSA percentage. For FEAST, the employer decides the cut score.
You have to be eligible, be invited to test, score high enough, clear medical and security checks, finish the academy, and then certify in a facility. Any one of those can stop the process. Hiring waves open and close. The vacancy on USAJOBS is the live source.
FEAST is EUROCONTROL's First European Air Traffic Controller Selection Test. It is a battery that air navigation service providers can use. FEAST I covers cognitive skills and English. FEAST II, if you are invited, is a harder multitasking work sample. Many providers also use a personality questionnaire called FEAST III.
Candidates describe it as demanding because several ordinary tasks run at once under a clock. EUROCONTROL does not publish one pass rate for every provider. The cut score belongs to the organisation that invited you.
It depends on the employer. FAA applicants who are invited sit the ATSA. Many European providers use FEAST. Germany's DFS uses its own selection, including aptitude testing associated with DLR. Military routes are different again. Read the vacancy you are applying to.
No honest single number exists across countries. Providers do not share one cut score. Treat any viral percentage as uncited.
On the FAA's public entry path you must be under 31 on the date you apply. The usual reason given is the retirement age for controllers, which is 56, so there is time to train and serve. Some prior-experience announcements use different rules. The open vacancy wins if it disagrees with a summary.
The FAA's 2026 hiring page says certified controllers can reach a six-figure income within a few years. Academy pay is lower, and you are paid while you train. The vacancy and the current pay tables are the figures that apply to you. This site does not quote a starting salary it has not copied from the announcement.
You do not buy a seat in the ATSA directly. You apply on USAJOBS when the FAA opens an Air Traffic Control Specialist trainee announcement, and the FAA invites some applicants to test. In Europe you apply to the provider that is hiring, and they tell you if FEAST or another battery is next.
For the FAA's standard trainee path: not being a US citizen, being 31 or older at application, not meeting the education or work rule, failing the medical or the background check, or not reaching the score band the announcement requires. Vision and medical rules are in FAA Order 3930.3. The announcement lists the rest.
Initial FAA academy training for a new hire lasts several months. The FAA describes it as paid training in Oklahoma City. Facility training after that is longer than the academy course.
Je nach Stelle sind es zeitbegrenzte Aufgaben zu Aufmerksamkeit, Merkfähigkeit, logischem Denken, räumlicher Orientierung und später mehrere Aufgaben gleichzeitig. Dazu kommen oft Englisch, ein Gespräch und eine fliegerärztliche Untersuchung. Die genaue Folge steht in der Ausschreibung von DFS oder dem anderen Arbeitgeber, nicht in einem allgemeinen Übungsprogramm.
Eine einzelne Durchfallquote, die für jedes Jahr und jede Stelle gilt, wird nicht veröffentlicht. Wer eine Prozentzahl ohne Jahr und ohne Quelle nennt, schätzt. Diese Seite nennt keine solche Zahl.
Das lässt sich seriös nicht mit einer Zahl beantworten. Der Cut-Score gehört der Stelle, die einlädt. Übung macht das Tempo vertrauter. Sie ändert die geheimen Aufgaben nicht und verspricht keine Einladung.
Der Notenschnitt ist nicht der Kern des Eignungstests. Welcher Schulabschluss gilt, steht in der aktuellen Ausschreibung. Danach zählen die Testleistungen, die Sprache, die Medizin und die Sicherheitseignung.