I think that mentioning you've passed test X at interview or on you CV can't be a bad thing, It depends who you are applying to.
Though what WWW said, I'm sure is True (mostly)
As for the validerty of such tests and wither they are really worth a dam (they are and they arn't), you need to look at the history behind them;
Back in the 1930s and 40s if you could get to grips with a Tiger Moth and at least solo in 10 hour you were (and I do mean WERE, as in ARE) a good pilot if you did it in 7 you might expect to be given a Spitfire to play with by 150 hours TT. After that you might end up as a Hawker test pilot etc. No other apptitude test! (other than a test to make sure you know your 1/2XrhoXV2... etc)
By the Fifties (If you look at a Hunter or period airliner for instance) it looks like someones just chucked a load of instruments at the cockpit and mounted them where they landed! add to that the speeds that these a/c fly at and you see why the RAE and RAF et, al. started to develop all these tests.
Unfortunately this is when it all starts to go wrong and what we've ended up with (in many cases) are tests which produced jobs for the designer / testers (who knew little of practical application and more about theory, so said my late father who worked for the RAE / Vickers / BAE etc) and just another hoop to jump through for the subjects and if you can find one set of 'stats' to say they work, you can find another set from another university that say they don't. Also cockpit instruments, controls, calculus, etc that are involved, have changed so much for the better since the old days.
The point is that alot of the 'old salts' know this and this means that for some at lease these 'tests' are little more than a procedure, a thing to keep the beancounters / brass / investors happy. Thats why (so I'm told) some smaller airlines are more into how you do in a C170 tail dragger checkride while telling jokes as you go! as this has much the same effect only more practical! This is not so much just an my words but that of those who's oppinion I respect.
I suppose what I'm Trying to say also is DO do them if you have to
for a job, but DON'T pay to do more I think you'd be better off spending the money on a better interview suit and tie! or may be an hour in a full axis simulator.
Last edited by David Balchin; 3rd August 2002 at 20:09.