Free Skyguide FEAST test preparation for Swiss air traffic control (2026)

Skyguide selection: FEAST is one part of the process

Skyguide’s published recruitment pathway separates FEAST 1 cognitive tests from FEAST 2 work-sample and personality tasks. Later stages include individual and interview work, spoken English and a selection camp. An app routine is useful for the underlying skills, but it is not the whole application. Check Skyguide’s current requirements and your invitation, and use the official EUROCONTROL familiarisation platform for FEAST controls and instructions.

Choose air traffic control rather than a pilot programme

In Brain Preflight choose the air traffic controller aptitude programme, which names FEAST and Skyguide. It combines Airways, Psychomotor, 2-back memory, Shapes & colours, spatial exercises, Logic sequences and Calculation grid. The Swiss preparation overview distinguishes this route from SWISS pilot selection and SPHAIR screening. Having similar skill families does not make the controller test a pilot test.

Match exercises to the skill you need

• Traffic and divided attention: Airways asks you to follow several moving elements and apply rules. Keep scanning even after one situation becomes urgent.
• Psychomotor control: use small steering changes while handling secondary tasks. Reset calmly after an error.
• Working memory: 2-back makes you update what matters now, rather than recall a whole list after the task ends.
• Numerical and spatial work: use Calculation grid, Stacks and 3D objects to practise clean arithmetic and consistent transformations.

Original examples for careful information handling

Prepare English and teamwork outside the cognitive routine

Skyguide publishes a separate oral-English stage. Add listening and spoken explanations to your plan; tapping answers in your preferred interface language is not speaking practice. For individual or group exercises, use real examples of how you communicate a plan, notice a misunderstanding and take feedback. Avoid trying to manufacture a perfect personality profile.

A five-session day can use one memory task, one arithmetic task, one spatial task and two attention or multitasking sessions. In each review, distinguish a rule error from a speed error. If you knew the rule but rushed, keep the next session controlled; if you misunderstood it, restate the instruction before continuing.

What this preparation does not claim

The app’s tasks are its own skill exercises. It does not reproduce proprietary FEAST work samples, predict a Skyguide decision or issue a licence. Premium offers the app’s own longer routines and diagnostics, not an official FEAST result. For wider context, use the existing FEAST guide linked below, or compare Edelweiss pilot preparation if you are exploring a cockpit career instead.

Practise now in Brain Preflight

Download Brain Preflight free on iPhone. You get 5 free exercise sessions immediately and 5 new sessions every day, with any exercise available in your chosen language. No purchase or subscription is required for that daily allowance. Installed exercises work offline. Mechanical comprehension is available in English, French and German. Premium is optional and adds unlimited sessions, ad-free practice, the app’s own timed series or mock-exam routines, and detailed diagnostics. The free plan may show ads. Choose a programme in the app, review your exercise feedback and adjust tomorrow’s practice to the mistakes that actually recur.

Frequently asked questions

Official sources and familiarisation

• Skyguide: Guardian of the Sky and selection process
• EUROCONTROL: free FEAST familiarisation platform