Cranwell

[MindlessRockMonkey]

5 years after leaving the RAF I have to return to an RAF base. Off to Cranwell for aptitude tests to become a chopper copper. Been told by a reliable source (A N Other Chopper Copper) that the tests are the RAF pilot/Nav tests. Whats the gen with those?

DT_Xtremez_44:

 

[Reformed Scribbly]

1 1/2 hours of fun proving hand/eye/foot co-ordination.
DT_Xtremez_44:

 

[vim_fuego]

They are just a bunch of IQ type tests that start off almost ridicuously easy and get progressively harder until you're at the point where you are choosing the answer that 'feels' right rather than knowing it's right...

Its like circle-circle-circle....square-square-square...triangle-triangle-? You have to say what comes next...The shapes become progressively more complex and increase in planes...

There is some hand/eye/foot coordination stuff...I had to use foot pedals to keep a dot over some other dots that were whizzing down the screen in a wavy line...

There is a bunch of questions relating to aircraft instruments like 'look at the altimeter...how high are we?' and they get more complex as it goes along...

There was some maths questions that weren't overly hard, basic adding and multiplying of fractions and what not, but if you combine all the above together you can get a little battle weary after a while and start to make basic mistakes that could cost you in the end...There is a lesson to be learnt from that with regards to flying if you think about it!

 

[MindlessRockMonkey]

Cheers for that. Slightly Off Topic what is the food like