Originally Posted by
RexBanner
Questions on the test are absolutely irrelevant to flying. You need basic addition and subtraction skills for working out fuel bottom lines and three and five times tables for descent profiles and that’s about it. I’ve got as far as the right hand seat of an A380 for the company in question with the above maths skills. Absolute nonsense to suggest that working out the area of a triangle is in any way relevant to the job. Yes I have seen the tests.
You're forgetting an important element - these tests are also designed to check your decision-making and accuracy under pressure. It's not necessarily just about the maths.