Symbiotics Ltd offers a variety of pre-selection tools to help employers and academies gather the most important information about candidates' current ability and future potential.

Based on combined experience within Human Factors, Sports Psychology and Aviation Training Domains, Symbiotics Ltd have created the ADAPT suite of selection tools.

From a simple ten minute assessment of a candidate's physical and cognitive ability to a full assessment of personality, skills and potential, ADAPT is the gold standard of selection. ADAPT is a blended assessment that not only looks at skills, but intelligently assess the impact of behaviour, culture, personality and technology.

Currently used widely in aviation the ADAPT process is easily transferrable to other areas such as the medical sector, management or education. 

It is currently used globally by international airlines and training academies looking to discover and acquire the best pilots. They need to predict the trainability of flight crew, their operational effectiveness and how they will fit into the organisation. ADAPT delivers airline selection, airline testing and much more.

For the Armed Services, ADAPT helps with:

• Streaming for aircraft type (Rotary Wing, Fixed wing etc)
• Operational roles (Apache, Lynx, Typhoon)
• Operational environments (Search & Rescue, Transport & Attack)

For the Commercial sector, ADAPT helps with:

• Experience evaluation (Ab-Initio, Entry-Level First Officer, Captain etc)
• Aviation Courses (CPL, MPL, ATP, ATPL)
• Rating Conversions

ADAPT exceeds the compliance criteria set down by IATA in their Guidance Material & Best Practice for Pilot Aptitude Testing. Read our IATA response here

The ADAPT Team is highly skilled in Psychology, Training Course Design and Delivery, Leadership and Management and Human Factors.

Our experience covers the implementation of ADAPT within a diverse range of cultures, aircraft roles, platforms and airline management models. With this comes a powerful insight and understanding of how to get the best out of the programme.

ADAPT - Our Approach

What makes ADAPT unique is the way it skilfully blends aviation and performance psychology with psychometrics and simulation. The result is a complete understanding of a candidate in terms of skill, personality and situation.

Our experience covers the implementation of ADAPT within a diverse range of cultures, aircraft roles, platforms and airline management models. With this comes a powerful insight and understanding of how to get the best out of the programme.

What You Receive

ADAPT offers a graduated approach to selection.

1. FAST is a highly effective ten minute assessment tool. Carried out online the assessment analyses physical and cognitive skill providing an overview of a candidate's breadth of skill and learning potential in the form of an instantaneous four page report.
2. ADAPT Online is a blended solution that takes elements of the full ADAPT process and combines them with FAST to create a quick, effective and easy to administer screening tool.
3. ADAPT is the original, most detailed and statistical proven selection process. It is a comprehensive assessment of a candidate over four hours examining physical, cognitive, personality, behaviour and the effects on them of environment and situation.

As a client, you benefit from our vast experience of pilot selection for a wide range of roles within the military and commercial sectors. You receive a bespoke system that identifies exactly what you need to know in relation to the context of training and operations.

ADAPT has the levels of validity and reliability required for understanding performance potential in terms of cultural norms and deviations.