Module overview
What the test trains
This module focuses on prioritisation, divided attention and resisting false alarms under a competing workload. It is designed to make the underlying process easier to recognise, repeat and review before you add more speed or workload.
Task profile
What the task looks like
What it involves
- Read a requested field (heading, altitude or speed) from a displayed record and type it into the data-transfer panel before its window closes.
- At the same time, monitor four gauges and click one only when it moves clearly into the alert zone.
- Ignore small, normal in-band drift on the gauges rather than reacting to every movement.
- Keep both streams running through a session with scripted normal, moderate and high-workload phases.
Interface briefing
Controls and difficulty
Controls
Type requested field values into the data-transfer panel using the keyboard, and acknowledge gauge alerts on the system-monitor panel with a click.
Difficulty and settings
Session length extends from 240 to 360 seconds, and the underlying event schedule increases pace and density through the workload phases at higher tiers.
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Build a method that holds up under pressure
Why this becomes difficult
- Two tasks compete for attention at the same time, with neither on pause while you handle the other.
- Distinguishing normal drift from a genuine alert takes a calibrated eye, not a reflex.
- Workload intensity changes through the session rather than staying constant.
- A missed data-transfer deadline and a missed gauge alert are both costly, so neither task can simply be dropped.
Preparation tips
- Decide in advance what counts as “clearly in the alert zone” so it isn’t a judgement call made for the first time mid-session.
- Glance at the gauges between data-entry keystrokes rather than only after submitting a field.
- Do not let one missed event cost you the next — reset attention immediately rather than dwelling on a mistake.
- During the high-workload phase, protect whichever task has the harder deadline rather than splitting attention evenly.
Common mistakes
- Clicking a gauge on ordinary drift and racking up false alarms.
- Missing a genuine alert because attention was fully absorbed by data entry.
- Typing a field value from memory instead of rechecking the displayed record.
- Letting a mistake on one task carry over and disrupt the next item on the other task.
Useful practice drills
- Practise the two sub-tasks separately first — data entry alone, gauge monitoring alone — before combining them.
- Deliberately practise ignoring small gauge movements to calibrate what counts as an alert.
- Run a short combined session and review the false-alarm and miss counts afterwards, not just overall accuracy.
- Use the practice-drill option for whichever error type shows up most in your results.
Transparency
Sources and information status
Task guidance on this page describes CBAT Academy’s own software. Broad aptitude context is checked against the public references in the source register.
This guide describes CBAT Academy’s independently developed practice modules. It is not an exact specification of ADAPT, COMPASS, Aon’s Aviation Suite (cut-e), PILAPT or any other provider’s proprietary assessment. Official content, timings, scoring and administration may differ.
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Turn the method into repeatable performance.
Launch the interactive trainer, begin with accuracy and review the pattern behind each mistake before increasing pace.