Non-technical preparation for pilots

Developing skills beyond piloting

Airlines do not just evaluate your knowledge and piloting skills. They also look at how you reason, communicate, collaborate, and handle complex situations or pressure.

Asteraviation develops these skills throughout the training program, ensuring they become part of the student’s way of working and can emerge naturally—even during an airline selection process.

These skills, together with technical training, contribute to developing the Pilot Competencies required for operating within a professional aviation environment.

In-flight technique. Airline-ready mindset.

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Understanding the situation

Identify relevant information, connect it, and anticipate how the scenario will evolve.
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Deciding with clarity

Set priorities, evaluate alternatives, and take action even when time and information are limited.

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Working as a crew

Communicate clearly, listen, and leverage team resources to achieve a shared goal.

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In the cockpit, they make the difference

In the cockpit, non-technical skills come into play especially when the scenario changes, requiring the plan to be adapted, new priorities to be set, and coordination with others to take place.

When the plan changes

Update your assessment of the situation, identify new risks, and decide how to proceed—without remaining tied to your initial decision.

When pressure rises

Protect priorities, keep tasks organized, and communicate the necessary information.

When a doubt arises

You speak with clarity, listen to others, and contribute to a shared decision.
The technique allows you to handle the aircraft.
Non-technical preparation helps you handle the situation.
100+ HOURS

Over 100 hours to develop them

Non-technical skills are not addressed only when a selection process is approaching. Asteraviation devotes over 100 hours in total to their development, spread across the 24-month training period.
The activities include:
  • seminars and practical exercises;
  • group work and case studies;
  • observation of behaviors and feedback.

The program involves psychologists with experience in the selection of flight crew, as well as professionals qualified as CRM Trainers. The activities address situational awareness, decision-making, communication, teamwork, leadership, and the management of stress and workload, with a specific focus on CRM (Crew Resource Management) and Threat and Error Management.

The time dedicated allows the student to recognize their own way of reacting, work on areas for improvement, and progressively consolidate more effective behaviors.

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From training to selection

During an airline selection process, it’s not just the solution you propose that counts. Recruiters also look at how you arrive at that answer.

What emerges is how you organize information and priorities, the clarity with which you communicate and collaborate, and your ability to handle pressure, change, and mistakes.

Developing these skills during training makes it possible to approach assessments with greater awareness. It is not a matter of constructing a persona suited to the selection process, but rather of bringing to the fore skills that have already been consolidated over time.

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Skills that grow with experience

Non-technical preparation is not just for passing a selection process.

Situation awareness, decision-making, communication, and workload management remain with the pilot even as complexity and responsibility increase.

During training, exercises and feedback transform these skills into an increasingly conscious and professional way of working.

Asteraviation Method
Airline selection preparation
This is the link between non-technical preparation, the cockpit, and an airline mindset.

Questions regarding non-technical preparation

These are cognitive, relational, and behavioral capabilities that, together with technical skills, contribute to forming Pilot Competencies. They enable a pilot to understand a situation, make decisions, communicate, and work effectively with others.

The course develops situation awareness, decision-making, communication, teamwork, leadership, and the management of stress and workload, with a focus also on CRM and Threat and Error Management.

Personal characteristics represent the starting point, but non-technical skills can be developed through experience, exercises, and ongoing interaction with trainers.
Through seminars, practical exercises, case studies, and group activities, during which the student manages information, priorities, and decision-making, and engages in discussion with others.
Yes. Situational awareness, priority management, and decision-making skills remain essential, even when not working as part of a full crew.
They emerge in the way the candidate approaches interviews, group exercises, and simulator tasks. Recruiters observe how the candidate thinks, communicates, collaborates, and handles what unfolds during the assessment.
The program involves instructors, psychologists with experience in the selection of flight crew, and professionals qualified as CRM Trainers, through training activities, observation, and feedback.

Know your starting point

Before developing a skill, it is useful to know your starting point.

The Cadet Aptitude Day includes aptitude tests, a psychological assessment, a flight test, and an individual interview. Each participant is guided by a dedicated, experienced instructor and by psychologists with expertise in airline recruitment.

At the end, you receive individual feedback on your strengths and areas for development, which is useful for approaching the training with greater awareness.

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