Yeah it's usually about a month or two between stages. Overall the process takes about 6 months, so patience is key haha. If you want you can login into your application portal online and see the current status.

Well, this is already month 3 since I submitted my application, and I've only been through one of the stages. Might be a longer wait for me haha.

My application portal status hasn't changed since the end of June. It just says "online testing complete". I contacted Avrecruit via email and they confirmed they're still going through potential applicants. There must be quite a few this year.

Hey mate, just checking to see if you have had any progress after the Xref check. I did the AC in Syd last friday and got the email from Xref yesterday. So just trying to see how long of a wait it will be after that. Airservices did mention that when they get enough trainees for a stream then they can start organizing class dates so maybe they were waiting for Sydney to finish to see how many they get.

Congrats on getting the AC done; I received a verbal offer about 2 weeks ago for early 2026 (conditional on medical and security of course :) ).

In total it was about 1 week between AC and XREF, then just over 1 month from submitting references to getting the phone call.

Current Applicants
 

Has anyone recently applied? It seems the testing has been broken up into 3 different sections now. Patiently waiting after completing the third.

Yeah I completed round one which was the detail accuracy and coded reasoning and waiting for next round if I progress. Just wondering how many questions were you able to complete? I only managed to complete 33 questions for coded reasoning and not sure if that meets the minimum requirement.

I managed to get up to 40 on the coded reasoning. When did you finish it?

I finished it 3 days ago and its due on Monday this week. Wow 40 question, I started really slow but started pick up as I progressed but it was too late. I wish they had some practice questions that we can prepare before we initiate the test link. Was this your first attempt? Were you able to find something similar online before you attempted it?

I had completed the test before so had a little bit of an idea, last time I only got up to 32. This time I knew I would run out of time so just had a good night sleep, got into the zone and pounded it out as quickly as I could.... hopefully it was accurate!

I just tried to be as accurate as possible and everytime the difficulty went up I was getting little shocks in my brain hehe but yeah just nervous waiting now. How long did you had to wait for round 2 confirmation? or rejection(on your first go).

The very first time I did the testing it was all seven tests at once, this time around it was broken up into three groups and I found out about the next lot the day following when I had to complete it by.

I'm not sure if getting the second lot of tests means I passed the first. I can never tell.

Yeah it's very unclear about the process. I am guessing they broken up the tests into 3 rounds because they wanted to filter out the applicants as they progressed but no way to know I guess. It's been 2 days since due date and no reply for me so I am guessing I didn't make it :(

Sit tight dude I think they progressed you for a reason and hopefully you'll get an invite to assessment center!! :)

Hi all! Long time lurker, first time poster. I applied last year but was unsuccessful (personally I think it was the radar simulation).

I have also just completed my third round of online testing. I assume that you would not receive an invite to the next round of testing if you were unsuccessful, but only time will tell.

Timeline so far (for anyone curious):
4th July - Submitted online application
1st September - Round 1 invite (detail accuracy, coded reasoning)
9th September - Round 2 invite (short-term memory, remembering relationships, spatial reasoning, radar simulation)
16th September - Round 3 invite (behavioural traits)
29th September - Online testing update (i.e. The testing period has now closed, and our team is working diligently to finalise the outcomes.)

Could you guys give some insight on round 2 assessment?

Short-term memory
Remembering relationships
Spatial reasoning
Radar simulation.

What kind of structure or format is it? I don't want to be shocked like round 1.

Our timelines are very similar! I am hoping that not getting a rejection message is a positive sign. Fingers crossed.

It seems like it is very difficult getting very far the first time you apply. Hopefully we can all make it through!

I just finished the Round 2 testing. How would you say your results were for you to be able to progress to round 3?

I definitely made a few mistakes in the short term memory, got 100% in 'remembering relationships', pressed the wrong key a few times with spacial reasoning, and had a few collisions in the radar sim, especcially in the maths round. Do you think this would still place me within the margin to progress?

Cheers

I feel like I went okay for all of them. I kept hitting the wrong key on the 'remembering relationships' and I had more collisions than I would like to admit on the radar sim (I accidentally turned the numpad off on two sequences) but would have to wait and see. I assume receiving a round 3 invite means it was good enough.

Hey, I'm also a part of the process, but I first applied back in May. My timeline is as follows:

9th May - Submitted online application
2nd June - Round 1 invite
10th June - Round 2 invite
17th June - Round 3 invite
2nd July - Notification of success in stage one testing.

So expect quite a wait haha, as I haven't heard anything since then.

Thanks for the heads up - at the very least I hope we get confirmation that we passed stage one soon. I'm in the last trimester of my degree, so a long wait won't bother me hahaha

But gosh that's a long time to wait for stage two

Yea tell me about it haha. It feels like I'm stuck in purgatory right now. I know some who have applied just 2 months before me that are much further along in the process. There must've been an uptick in applicants around April in that case.

Yeah I applied April 1 and then at the end of the month they sent me all 7 of the tests to do and had a week to complete them. I did the AC in Sydney on Sep 19. Got the Xref request 2 days after AC and have been waiting 2 weeks now for a response.

Just out of curiosity, which cohort no. are you? When I go to the online portal, it says that I'm cohort 11.

I'm in cohort 9

Hi guys, been lurking around for a few weeks on here, thought I would share about my process until now.
July 11th - Application sent
Sep 22nd - Round 1 invite
Sep 30th - Round 2 invite
Oct 8th - Round 3 invite
Waited quite a bit to receive invite for 1st round of test, and now I reckon more waiting for the results.
I feel like I did ok on mosts of the tests, was particularly bad on spatial orientation and ok-ish on radar simulation.
So fingers crossed and keep waiting! I don't know if anyone on here in cohort 14 like me, but anyways, I wish you guys luck and hope that we might see each other someday!

I'm on the exact same timeline in cohort 14 as well (whatever that means).

How do you reckon you did in the testing?

Hi all, anyone get any updates?

No update from me. Guessing either tomorrow or next week we will hear back.

Does anyone know what the different cohorts mean?

I just got a "thanks for your patience, you'll hear back shortly" email

My understanding is that the cohorts are the order in which people apply in a year; I assume they have different timelines for the different cohorts (for example, cohorts 1-6 who have stage 1 will move to stage 2 by x date, cohorts 7-12 will move to stage 2 by y date, etc.)

Not an official answer, just a guess

How long after the round 3 behavioral test did you receive that?
I got round 3 invite on 8th, and so far haven't heard anything back. Really excited by the opportunity, but it does seem to take a while.

Apologies for late reply, I don't come up here often
I think I did alright for most parts, except the Spatial Orientation, was too quick for me, radar simulation I missed a few math questions, how did you do?
Also, haven't heard anything back from ASA since I took the 3rd test.

I think my last test closed Sep 22, so a few weeks

Hi all, I am assigned cohort 14 and got the round 3 invite on 8 Oct.

Just received ASA's email saying thanks for your effort and will update you shortly.

I guess it is a neutral notification with no indication of success or failure?

Good luck to everyone waiting for ASA's update!

Anyone had any updates since the "we will update you shortly" email?

I'm still waiting to hear about my Assessment Center and reference check I did 7 weeks ago

Nothing at all unfortunately....

Not for me either...

I just wish we knew whether we passed Stage 1 or not! Hahaha. I assumed we did given we hadn't received a rejection, but with the generic updates we're getting, I guess not

Trainee ATC WA?
 

Hi everyone, not sure if anyone saw the new trainee ATC posting titled WA Tower?
Does it mean all training will take place locally in WA/Perth only, so no flying to a Melbourne or NZ?