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Old 17th Mar 2020, 14:59
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samatyranin
 
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Well. I can say it was good. To keep things short it looks on first day like that:

3 computerised tests:
1. Personality test - you have to pick one of two things about you (for example 1. I am great at working as a team. 2. I rarely act impulsively - in case both are good or no good for you - pick one that is better or less worse for you)
2. COMPASS* - joystick like in airbus and some rudder peddals. Really old models with rather bad callibration. You have to be carefull in slalom test because sping of these joystics act rather weird - its deadzone is crappy so as you go through neutral position there is rather big gap without any reads where joystick has barely any resistance.)
3. English test - simple english phrases you have to pick correct word out of 4 for it. Then you have few records to listen via headphones. These are about aviation in general so you need to listen through (nature of emergency, ATIS and so on - it looks kinda like ICAO exam)

plus you have small talk with one of Flight instructors at your chosen school.

about Compass it was rather easy few modules based on Skytest for middle east these were:
1. slalom (jostick left/right) - Tracking Accuracy Test
2. v/s + rudder - Basic Coordination Test
3. autopilot stuff - almost same as Autopilot and Signals Processing - the only difference is that - you need to set 3 parameters instead of 4 in skytest - Altitude, heading and speed). + signals are showing up in two boxes in upper corners you need to clear them by pressing numpad keys. One thing that is worth to mention here is that these disappear after 3 seconds if not cleared. And when you set your autopilot settings and hit Enter to confirm it - whole program kinda freezes up for about 2-3 seconds so when you set your autopilot, then press enter, and then try immediately after hit numpad key it doesnt disappear - not sure if it counts or not but at some point I was rather clicking numpad first then confirming autopilot settings
4. short term memory - Flight data Read Back - you only have to memorise four constant parameters up to 3 at a time - Altitude, speed, heading, radio freq so nothing like stuff on higher levels of skytest [rate of climb, distance, fuel weight and so on]
5. radar - Bearing determination test - really simple version of that - 3 gauges - RMI, Compass, Attitude. - I've seen exactly same test somewhere over internet. But if you are good at sky test then you are going to ace one at Wizz Air too (no callsigns of airplanes or aditional VOR's - RMI is always pointing center point of radar)
6. Math - mix of Mental Arithmetic and Math Word Problems - so just simple calculations or stuff like Plane A flies takes off from airport A and flies at a speed of 150 knots while plane B takes off from airport B with with speed of 100knots - at what distance between two airports will they meet knowing that distance between two airports is 300miles. - no estimations and no number series. What differs slightly is that you get 2 tables one about breaking distance on runway in different conditins (runway wet, plane with only one engine and so on) you need to look up those in table and type answers for questions like - what distance will cover a 68t plane will need to stop on snowy runway with flaps and slats inop. Second table was something about isa and saturation (same principle - read question find it on a table and type answer) - 24 questions 20 minutes
7. physics - same as above but without time limit and questions few of them were exactly same as in physics part of skytest - not sure if numbers were same (doubt it).

Nothing else so all those cube folding stuff and so on was not needed.

For parts of test 1-3 there were 3 periods of 2 minute test (as far as I remember) and these were basically the same ie. autopilot settings were same, slalom looked same, and rudder was deflecting at same timeframes with same force.

Not too much experience with day 2 and 3 since at the beggining of that got confirmation that I cant use way of finnancing it as I planned, saddly. So now either I'll go through it all by myself or find way to save more money and hit them again next year.
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