FEAST Test for Air Traffic Controllers: FEAST I, II, III and Preparation

The pages read give candidates no way to book FEAST themselves. It is a battery of tests that EUROCONTROL makes available to air navigation service providers and to certified ATC training academies and universities, which then use it, in whole or in part, when they select candidates for air traffic controller training. Candidates sit it through the organisation they apply to. This guide sets out what EUROCONTROL itself says about the battery: what is in each part, how long a session takes, who decides the pass mark, what happens if you fail, and the free training platform it provides. It also says what the platform is not.

ProSyllabus is an independent study site. It is not part of the FAA, the US Department of Transportation, Pearson VUE, NAV CANADA, NATS or EUROCONTROL, and their advice appears only where it is attributed to them by name; our own comments are marked as ours. Every rule, date and figure below is taken from the pages listed under Sources, each read on 24 October 2026. Where we noticed two pages of the same body giving different figures, the guide shows both.

EUROCONTROL FEAST candidate site and training platform, read 24 Oct 2026.

EUROCONTROL describes the first European air traffic controller selection test as helping “identify the most suitable candidates for the job of an air traffic controller.” It “assesses the knowledge, skills and abilities of applicants for air traffic control (ATC) training that are relevant and necessary for the job of an air traffic controller,” and the battery “is available worldwide to civil and military air navigation service providers (ANSPs) and certified ATC aviation training academies and universities.”

The January 2023 EUROCONTROL factsheet adds that the FEAST service “does not participate in the selection process itself”: selection decisions “are made solely by the recruiting ANSP or ATC training institute.” It says civil and military ANSPs and ATC training institutes worldwide may request the service and tests, under licence and non-disclosure agreements. It also reports that since 2010 four studies on the predictive validity of the FEAST tests have been completed, and that they “established a clear link between the FEAST test scores and later performance in the ATCO training.” That is EUROCONTROL’s statement about its own product, and the studies are not published on the pages read, so we cannot check it.

These are dated figures, not current totals. The candidate site has a Users section for organisations; if you want to know whether the organisation you are applying to uses FEAST, look at its recruitment page or ask it, because that is where the tests, the fee and the cut-off are decided.

The 2023 factsheet describes the same battery in slightly different words: cognitive abilities tests “measuring multi-tasking, planning ability, learning and applying rules, processing speed and attention, 3D visualisation,” an English language listening and comprehension test, two work sample tests “one simulating the task of a radar controller, the other the work of a planner,” and the FEAST Personality Questionnaire. The candidate site and the factsheet therefore agree on the structure, with two caveats. First, “radar controller” and “planner” are the factsheet’s description of the two work samples; the candidate site names them RADAR and MULTI-PASS and does not say which is which, so we do not pair them. Second, the candidate site gives two different lengths for the personality questionnaire, around 35-40 minutes in its overview and about 45 minutes in its FAQ, which is a small gap but a real one if you are planning a day.

The candidate site describes a standard routine. You are welcomed by a test administrator who guides you through the day and explains what you need to know before you start. Each test is preceded by an introduction that explains its principles and gives example items and solutions, followed by a sample question so that you know what is being asked, and then the test itself: Introduction, Practice, Test. All candidates sit the tests under the same conditions and instructions, and the tests are administered and scored by computer. FEAST I is computer-based and needs a keyboard and a mouse.

EUROCONTROL has developed a training platform at feast-training.eurocontrol.int for applicants. Its page says the platform “has been designed by EUROCONTROL to help applicants prepare for a test session at one of the FEAST user organisations.” You need a personal account. Use is free of charge, but it requires accepting Terms and Conditions, which among other things “describe EUROCONTROL’s intellectual property rights and exclude any commercial use of the platform.” Tests can run on a laptop or tablet that meets its technical requirements.

The wording on what the platform is, and is not, matters: “The tests on this platform are not identical to the tests used in a real test session; nevertheless, they capture the concept and principles of the FEAST I tests. In this way, applicants can familiarise themselves with the tasks to be performed in a FEAST test session.” Two things follow from that sentence. First, the platform is described as covering the FEAST I tests; the page says nothing about the FEAST II work samples or the personality questionnaire. Second, EUROCONTROL itself says the platform tests are not the real ones.

The “average result” line is the single most useful sentence on the site for managing expectations, and it also shows why the EUROCONTROL pages give no pass mark that applies across organisations: each organisation decides its own cut-off, and EUROCONTROL describes the usual bar as an average result compared with candidates who have taken the tests in the past, “in most cases.” We found no page that publishes any organisation’s cut-off.