Involved aptitudes
This test is designed to screen your dexterity and your ability to divide your attention between interfering tasks.
This test is designed to screen your dexterity and your ability to divide your attention between interfering tasks.
With the joystick or the arrow keys, fly the plane position so as to reach the desired altitude and heading. Press the +/- power indicator to adjust the thrust and to reach the desired airspeed. The desired altitude, airspeed and heading are indicated with green circles.
Pull on the stick to climb from 8.000 ft to 8.500ft. Use the joystick lateral control to keep the heading around 211°. Press "-" to decrease the power and the airspeed to 170kt.
This test lasts 5mins.
For your comfort you can practice this test either with a real gamepad, or with the virtual on-screen gamepad, or with your keyboard. However, in order to get the best of your training we do recommend that you acquire a joystick in order to recreate in the most realistic manner the conditions you will face on exam day.
See this part of the FAQ, to handle with gamepads calibration.