FAA ATSA practice test: timed practice for four skills its subtests assess
Timed practice for four skills Pearson VUE says the ATSA assesses: spatial awareness and decision-making question sets, plus working memory and multitasking drills.
- Every answer explained
- Timed, on our own clocks
- Headings, bearings, clock positions
- Sequencing and conflicts
- Spatial awareness: 35 timed questions on headings, bearings and angles
- Decision-making: 30 timed questions applying a rule card to traffic
- Working memory and multitasking drills, 5 levels each
- The FAA endorses no practice test and ATSA content is not public: our own items
- Your score by skill and the working behind every answer
The timed question sets
Pearson VUE, the FAA's test vendor, says the Air Traffic Skills Assessment (ATSA) consists of multiple subtests and that the assessments include decision-making ability, spatial awareness, multitasking and working memory, among others. The official pages do not name the subtests or show what they look like, so this practice test gives you timed practice for each of those four skill types with our own items: two timed question sets in the full test player, with the working behind every answer, and two interactive drills. Start with the 4 free questions.
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- Spatial awareness: 35 timed questions on headings, bearings and angles
- Decision-making: 30 timed questions applying a rule card to traffic
- Working memory and multitasking drills, 5 levels each
- The FAA endorses no practice test and ATSA content is not public: our own items
- Your score by skill and the working behind every answer
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Spatial awareness
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Decision-making
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The working memory and multitasking drills
Flight strips appear for a few seconds and then disappear. Answer from memory: what altitude a flight was at, which flight was at an altitude, or where a flight is after a climb or descent you are told about.
Five levels: from 3 strips to 6, with updates to apply from level 3.
Traffic crosses the screen in lanes. Tap each flight inside the hand-off zone, not before it and not after, while you answer yes-or-no quick checks underneath.
Five levels: more lanes, faster traffic and faster checks.
Each drill ends with your score, a breakdown, your result against your last try at that level, and our own band for the attempt (Building, Steady or Strong). Our bands are not ATSA result categories.
Spatial awareness: 35 questions, 27-minute practice clock
- Headings after a turn, and the shorter way to turn
- Clock positions of other traffic from a heading and a bearing
- Bearings between two points on a map grid
- Estimating the angle between two lines in a figure
- Which two aircraft on a grid are closest
Decision-making: 30 questions, 38-minute practice clock
- Sequencing flights with a priority rule
- Finding the two flights in conflict on one route
- Which flight reaches a fix first, from distance and ground speed
- Spotting the altitude assignment that breaks a direction rule
- Spacing flights at a fix, with the knock-on delays
Every rule card in the decision-making set is made up for practice and is not an FAA procedure: the question tests applying the rules you are given, quickly and exactly.
What the official pages say about the ATSA
| Topic | What the page says | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Length | Pearson VUE: "Nearly 3.5 total hours are allotted", a maximum test duration of two hours 49 minutes plus up to 30 minutes of break time. | Pearson VUE |
| What it assesses | Pearson VUE: "multiple subtests"; "The assessments include decision-making ability, spatial awareness, multitasking, and working memory, among others." | Pearson VUE |
| Where the content comes from | The Inspector General: the FAA selected 7 of 15 assessments from two vendors, Airways New Zealand and SHL/CEB, and "The assessments are proprietary to the vendors". | Inspector General |
| Preparation | Pearson VUE: the ATSA is an aptitude assessment, so "no studying or preparation is necessary", and "the FAA does not endorse any practice test". | Pearson VUE |
| Result | Pearson VUE: one of three categories (Well Qualified, Qualified, Not Referred), with no overall score. | Pearson VUE |
| Cost | Pearson VUE: invited candidates are not charged; the FAA covers the cost of the test. | Pearson VUE |
Read 25 October 2026. These pages do not name the subtests or describe how they work. Our ATSA guide sets out everything they do say, side by side.
Before you buy
Does the FAA recommend this or any practice test?
No. Pearson VUE's FAQ says "the FAA does not endorse any practice test". This is independent practice by ProSyllabus, not produced, endorsed or checked by the FAA or Pearson VUE.
Pearson VUE says no preparation is necessary. Why practise?
That is the official position, and you do not need this to sit the ATSA. What this gives you is timed practice of four skills Pearson VUE names, with feedback on your accuracy and speed. We do not claim that it changes an ATSA result, and our scores and bands do not predict an ATSA category.
What do I get?
Two timed question sets in the full test player (35 spatial awareness questions on a 27-minute practice clock and 30 decision-making questions on a 38-minute practice clock), each with your score by topic, time per question and the working behind every answer; and the working memory and multitasking drills, 5 levels each. Retake anything as often as you like.
How were the answers checked?
Every key and every wrong option is computed by script from the item's own numbers, and every question was then answered again, independently and without our answer key. A question went in only when those answers matched ours and nobody raised an objection to it.
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Independent practice material by ProSyllabus. Not written, endorsed or checked by the FAA or Pearson VUE. The FAA endorses no practice test, and ATSA content is not public: every item here is our own. Format facts are from the official pages as read on 25 October 2026; the FAA's current pages and your invitation are the authority.
Disclaimer
The FAA endorses no practice test, and ATSA content is not public: the Inspector General's 2023 report says the assessments are proprietary to the vendors. Every item here is our own, and so are the practice clocks and the bands. Our scores and bands are practice feedback only and do not predict an ATSA result category.
Is this the real ATSA, or ATSA questions? No. The ATSA's content is not public, and the Inspector General says the assessments are proprietary to the vendors. Every item here is our own, written for four skills Pearson VUE names. None is, copies or imitates an ATSA item.