Turkish Technology Promotes PACE Pilot Assessment Platform to Airlines and Flight Academies Worldwide

Türkiye – Turkish Technology is promoting its PACE (Pilot Assessment Competency Evaluation) platform to airlines and flight academies globally as a data-driven pilot selection and cadet screening tool — developed in partnership with Turkish Airlines and Istanbul University.

• PACE is designed to make pilot candidate selection objective, measurable, and standardised by leveraging aviation-specific cognitive science, AI, and psychometric testing to identify top cadet potential early in the selection process.
• The platform measures a range of competencies critical to pilot performance including sustained attention and attentional vigilance, spatial rotation, orientation and navigation, audio-visual and verbal memory, psychomotor abilities and multitasking capacity, and math and physics proficiency.
• PACE was originally unveiled by Turkish Airlines in August 2025 as a project to transform its pilot candidate evaluation process. Developed in collaboration with Istanbul University, the system combines psychometric testing with assessment centre exercises to provide more objective and comprehensive selection criteria than traditional screening methods.
• In February 2026, Turkish Technology highlighted PACE's broader commercial availability beyond Turkish Airlines, positioning the platform for adoption by airlines and flight academies seeking to standardise and enhance their cadet pilot selection processes.
• The platform is relevant to the wider pilot training industry as airlines and ATOs increasingly adopt competency-based training and assessment (CBTA) methodologies, where early-stage candidate screening aligned with evidence-based cognitive and psychometric benchmarks can improve training outcomes, reduce attrition, and strengthen pipeline quality.

Source: Turkish Technology