CBATONE
Unofficial CBAT-style practice

Practise the aptitude tests you can't rehearse on paper.

Every test has a free version. Premium generates each exercise fresh, so you can drill the same skill fifty times without seeing the same question twice. Tracking, instruments and multitasking included.

20 of the 27 tests also run on a phone. Only 7 need hardware: 4 are flown on a joystick and the rest need a keyboard.

Why it exists

I built this because I needed it

I went through RAAF pilot selection myself. Everything I could find was scattered across a dozen places, and what was any good cost money I did not particularly want to spend on a maybe.

So I built the whole battery in one place. Every test has a free version you can run as often as you like, and your scores are saved so you can see whether you are actually improving.

Premium is for the weeks before your sitting: fresh questions every run, the breakdown of where you lose marks, Easy, Medium and Hard practice, a plan to your test date and the two-day mock test. One payment that never renews, because a prep product should stop charging when your test is over.

27

tests

unique questions

Instant

scoring & review

Why a browser, not a PDF

The tests you can only practise live

Tracking, instrument comprehension and the six multitask sims cannot be printed. They are the ones that catch people out, and the reason this exists.

Never the same question twice

Nothing is authored. On Premium every item is generated fresh from a seeded model, so there is no question bank to memorise. You drill the skill instead.

Practice before every timed run

Each test opens with two untimed worked examples that demonstrate the instructions and every variant, then the clock starts.

The hard ones

All 27 tests →

Spatial

360090180270 A B C D

What is the bearing of point A from the centre?

ABD

Angles, Bearings & Degrees

Judge a bearing or an included angle by eye.

Spatial·9 min

A convoy leaves the base, heads South for 120 km, then turns left and travels a further 300 km, then turns right and travels a further 50 km, then turns right and travels a further 190 km, then turns right and travels a further 140 km, then turns left and travels a further 290 km. In which direction is it now travelling?

DAD

Directions and Distances

Track a route through turns and work out where you are.

Spatial·16 min
NESW

Which aircraft matches the instruments?

INSC 1

Instrument Comprehension (Part 1)

Read the instruments, pick the matching aircraft.

Spatial·12 min 30 sec

Psychomotor

RTT

Rapid Tracking Test

Find the called target from a moving aircraft and photograph it three times.

Psychomotor·15 min·Joystick
TRAC1

Trace Test 1

Mimic the pilot of the red aircraft on the arrow keys.

Psychomotor·8 min·Joystick
SMA

Sensory Motor Apparatus

Two axes, two different control laws, one crosshair.

Psychomotor·8 min·Joystick + rudder

Multitasking

Warning Panel

Clear. Nothing has been let slip

Clock

13:16:55

T−32:00

Multifunction Display Index

Message

  • 13:16:55Systems handed over. Hold the tolerances and act on orders as they arrive.

Multifunction Display Index

Hydraulic pressure

High
pressure
Correct
Low
pressure
1301109070

100

Hydraulic pump

Communications code

No code pending

The code can only be entered in the last 15 seconds of its countdown. Hold on to it until then.

Cognitive updatingElapsed 0:00 / 32:00Remaining 32:00

Only two displays fit at once. Orders arrive on Message; the warning panel shows what you have already let slip. Select a field, then enter the digits.

CUT

Cognitive Updating Test

Juggle six cockpit panels with only two on screen at once.

Multitasking·32 min
FLAG

Figures, Logistics and Groups

Three jobs at once: maths, colour-zones and callsign memory.

Multitasking·18 min
CLAN/Hits 0
18:00
Fred
Gyellow
Hgreen
RTYUletters
0–9sums

Press a marker’s colour while it is inside the matching band. Memorise the sequence, then pick it with R, T, Y or U. Type the sums and press Enter.

CLAN

Colours, Letters and Numbers

Three streams at once: timing, memory and mental arithmetic.

Multitasking·18 min·Keyboard only