Info/Review of PILAPT Prep Software
Hi all,
Just thought I'd share with you some of my thoughts on the PILAPT prep software that is available for practicing PILAPT tests.
In short, it's a low cost piece of software and it shows.
Each of the tests is a separate application and can therefore be run simultaneously. However, this isn't as good as it sounds. The software uses the built in Windows speech synthesizer, which can only say one thing at a time, so if there's a timing conflict between Hands saying "Negative Left Hand Square" and Countdown saying "Two two five", it will screw up the timings of the countdown i.e. you won't get chance to click if you need to.
The Countdown application is buggy - it doesn't keep score properly if you click the restart button.
None of the other applications give you a score, so if you're screwing it up and you don't realise, it won't tell you.
A cheap and useful tool to some extent, but can be frustrating and very unsophisticated.