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Hello to everyone on this forum. It s my first time I am writing but I’ve been following it and read all the threads. I hope I’ll not upset anybody with what I will write. I just took the phase 1 of the FEAST test also the afternoon part and I am waiting for the answer.First of all my ‘’short story’’ will begin since I got to Maastricht untiI i left,cause I know that all of you,future applicants for Eurocontrol,that you will be nervous maybe streessed,I had a lots of questions also before the exam like those around here,and UNFORUTUNETELLY NOBODY WAS ABLE TO ANSWER OR TO GIVE MORE DETAILS. Altghout there were lots of applicants who finished all the test,passed,failled them,work there already ,maybe they think that the future one ‘s will take the working place for Eurocontrol so they keep the details? Or maybe if the failled why to share for others ,why not others faile like them also??? Please do not be angry cause I know there are persons around here THAT HELPED AND GAVE TIPS,SO I AM THANKING YOU!!! And for others , this is what I think and I’m telling it loud and clear! Anyway…[/font]
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So you get your date for phase 1,it is coming,you arrive in Maastricht,by plane,car doesn’t matter.For those who take the train from Brussels-the ticket it is around 18 euro,until Maastricht Central Station,takes about 1 hour 15 minutes.BE CARREFUL TO CHOOSE THE ONE WITH --NO CHANGE-!!! You arrive at Maastricht and now you must go outside to take bus number 59,and I will put in a next thread the hours cause I stayed 1 hour to wait for it!!! In the evening it is usually from hour to hour I took it at 19.50. The ticket is 4 euro until airport. KEEP ALL RECEIPTS ( the bus ticket they know the price so they said they will give the money for both ways and for the train you need to have just one and same they calculate and said for both ways). It will take about 15-20 minutes to arrive at te hotel,which is near the airport. Don’t be surprised about it,cause it is….no offense….awfull! I mean it seems to me like that! The rooms from ground floor I understood from others that it is very cold inside them, I stayed at the first floor,it was warm,but the smell inside killed me. I couldn’t sleep all night!!! I was thinking that somebody is smoking near my bed, and even the ****s and pillows smelled like ciggarettes and like old!!! And you can hear all the air planes...actually not so many but it is 500 meaters from the window to the runway.The bathrooms groose,3 beds in the room. Oh if you stay ground floor ,you must go out from reception and walk to your room,there is no hall way! Then in the morning,don’t expect for a yellow cab-taxi to come pick you up! It is a white van with 20 places inside( we were around 18) maybe if you will be less…I don’t know. At 8 :10 ,10 minutes till Eurocontrol,prepeare your id you will leave it at the security desk outside they will give a visitor card,DON’T LOSE IT! Then you go inside where they give you a pass card also DON’T LOSE IT.Then the person from human resources will come collect you all and invite you in the buffet. You will give her the bank account paper completed and the plane/train ticket( in any case take also the bus ticket with you) and she will give 2 meal vouchers for breakfast an lunch. Then you will eat,try to relax speak with others,make friends don’t think about test to much. After that you will go up with the person and you go inside where the test will take place,you will see your name on each pc,she will start explain all rules pay attention! [/font]
[FONT='Arial','sans-serif']Be carreful! The Test starts as soon as you put your hand on that mouse and click continue[/font]J [FONT='Arial','sans-serif']i don’t remember the exact order. [/font]
[FONT='Arial','sans-serif']1.the english part--- first it was with numbers…big ones…a woman was talking she said a number the again talking after the answers….TRY TO REMEMBER THE NUMBER IMAGINE IT IN YOUR MIND,DON’T LISTEN TO WHAT THE WOMAN IS TELLING YOU! ----second it was the small phrases with the beep tone,and another word after. Actually you must the choose from4 choices the word with closest meaning to the word after the beep.----third part it was a small story and after questions about what the story was about(there are different subjects) PAY ATTENTION TO ALL DETAILS NUMBERS NAMES EVERYTHING [/font]
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2.i think it was with the heading,you will be shown some figures with squeres made by lines vertically called 1 2 3 and horizonatlly called A B C,points with names and some small circles with directions.you will be asked how many degrees must plane 76 turn to get to poin A3 and what is the distance.Don’t worry cause in the beginning they will teache you the compass with the degrres like 360,045,090,135,180,240,270,330,just a few of them and the distances of the length of the square. And they will give the answers like: turn 135 left/right 40 nm or other option.It was easy one![/font]
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3.the instructions for landing : some black and white drawings with points A B C D E F…. 2/3 air planes with number up,down the flight level,in the beginning they will give some rules,be sure you memorize them perfectlly cause without them it will be very hard. You must land the plane through the point to the opened runway,and on the direction the arrow is showing you ,on th bottom of the scren sometimes you will see a message which you must read carrefully like:e.g. you are not allowed to use points ABCDE and plane 55 is not allowed to use point F.You must find the easiest path to the runway and choose it from the answers. [/font]
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4.the exercise with the line and the small square :first you have 1 small screen(each of them have the numbers down in the right corner) until 4, each time the square comes out and collides with the line you must press the button in which the screen happened. [/font]
[FONT='Arial','sans-serif']5.the geometry[/font]J[FONT='Arial','sans-serif'] you have square circle diamond and triangle ,they are colored;on the bottom you have the answers sometimes they are also colored(the answer)when you must sort them by color: for example the circle is blue and down the answer are diamond blue circle green etc…you will put the blue circle in the blue diamond category. sometimes the answers are without color and you must sort them by shape. And on the right side you will see also another image same figure which sometimes is the same with the one on the left and you must press the M button which is MATCH. And to be harder they put also rules on the top so you must check also them cause they come an say: sort this as a triangle and you have the figure circle.Then it will come with numbers which it is most of it the same thing but it is a little bit harder cause the rules sometimes include small arithmetic: the sum >5 sort 0-299 like that.or if you have 1 in the number shown sort it as 299-599.[/font]
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6. the cube test…the terror for me!!! 25 minutes 36 cubes.1 cube per page 2 answere 1 none button.the cube is with 2 colors and 2 or 3 arrows on each side,and the cube also rotates!!! So be carreful( search on internet for games like FOLD THE CUBE) I was like last 4 minutes done 22 maybe 23 cubes,until 36 I put all by luck!!!![/font]
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Bettwen the first part and second( sorry but I can’t remember exactly the exercises in which part they were) you will have break.[/font]
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Then you will go down at the security ,go for lunch and wait for results.[/font]
[FONT='Arial','sans-serif']For the Flight strip,you go back in the room, you have for real 1 hour and 30 minutes where the pc is teaching you all about Flight strips,then they say you have 3-5 minutes of practices,I had maybe 11/2 minute. The test last about 40 minutes. What you must do: find local and opposite conflict,put the new strips in order discard the old ones( you will see a clock on the left side of the screen you must guide by that to know when to discard the strips)and use the headphones listen to what the lady is telling you cause you must change either the time or the flight level or both of them. Difficult one,it seemed to me.[/font]
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That’s all,of course, the response comes in about 1 week.The small bus will come to pick you up and go to hotel! [/font]
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Some tips: try to make some friends cause it will relax you to talk about different stuff not just FEAST.[/font]
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-about the sleep or room can’t say nothing more
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-you can find similar exercises on the internet that helps you a little bit[/font]
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-play reaction test,folding the cube listen to english and answer to questions and also get used to big numbers[/font]
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If i made some mistakes or i said something wrong that offended anybody sorry,or if i gave to much info...sorry again![/font]
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Good luck![/font]