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Airborne Numerical Test

CBAT-style practice test · Numerical

Pulling the right numbers off a chart and graphs under time pressure, then doing speed–distance–time and fuel arithmetic in your head.

Skill area
Numerical
Length
25 questions
Format
Timed questions
Cost
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What this test involves

  • 25 questions. You get exactly one minute for each one, and that minute includes working out what the question is even asking for.
  • The minute does not carry over. Finish one in twenty seconds and you still get one minute for the next, so there is nothing to be saved by rushing.
  • You fly a parcel between waypoints on the chart. Read the leg distances from the chart.
  • Your speed comes from the parcel weight: read miles-per-minute off the weight graph.
  • Some questions withhold the parcel weight and give you the departure and arrival times instead. There, the speed is the total distance divided by the minutes flown.
  • Bad-weather legs (amber, dashed) halve your speed for that leg.
  • Fuel is a separate job. Your speed also gives you miles-per-gallon on the fuel page, so divide the total distance by that. The weather and the journey time never come into a fuel question.
  • Answer in whole numbers. Round up at 0.5 and down at 0.49, as the real test instructs.
  • Close answers still score. A time of day is marked to within five minutes either side, and a fuel figure to within a gallon.
  • Some questions give four options to pick with 1–4; others you type the answer in.

How to prepare for the Airborne Numerical Test

  • Speed is simply the parcel weight ÷ 100 in miles per minute: a 300 kg parcel flies at 3 mile/min.
  • Time for a leg is its distance ÷ speed. Halve the speed first on a bad-weather leg, then divide.
  • When the weight is missing and two clock times are given, work the other way: total distance ÷ minutes flown. The answer is an average, so a bad-weather leg drags it below the speed the weight would have given.
  • For a latest-departure question, work out the whole journey time and subtract it from the arrival deadline.
  • Never work out a time to answer a fuel question. Add the legs, divide by the miles per gallon, done.
  • Because near answers score, rounding as you go is worth it. Call a 47-mile leg 50 and move on rather than running out of minute on the exact figure.
  • The fuel page is redrawn every question, so read it rather than remembering it.
▸What has changed in this test (3)· last on 19 Oct 2026
New

You can now practise just the question type you keep getting wrong

The breakdown after a run has always told you which kind of question cost you the marks — "Fuel: 1 correct, 4 wrong" — and then left you to sit the whole test again to work on it, which means doing the three kinds you are already good at as well.

That row now has a button. Press it and you get a practice run of nothing but that kind of question: same generator, same difficulty, same worked answers, just the one you are losing marks on.

It shows on Airborne Numerical, Spatial Integration and the Situational Awareness Test, which are the tests that label their question types clearly enough for it to mean something. It appears only on a row where you actually dropped marks, because a button on a row you got right is only in the way.

Changed

Airborne Numerical now shows you how to skip the bad weather decimals

A leg flown in bad weather halves your speed, which is the only place this test makes you divide by something like 3.5. The worked answer showed that division and left you to it. A candidate about to sit the real paper wrote in to say he had stopped doing it: divide by the full speed instead and double the result. 56 ÷ 3.5 = 16 is the same answer as 56 ÷ 7 = 8, doubled, and the second way never leaves a decimal to carry.

The worked answer now shows that method whenever a question has a bad weather leg in it. It is not a trick of the numbers we happen to generate: every leg distance on this test is a whole multiple of the full speed, so dividing by the full speed always comes out whole, and doubling it always will too. As he put it, the doubling is the time the weather costs you. Nothing about the questions, the answers or the benchmark has changed.

New

The Airborne Numerical Test can now ask you to work out the speed

Until now the speed was always handed to you: read the parcel weight, divide by a hundred. About one question in ten now gives you a departure and an arrival time with the weight withheld, so you work the speed out from the distance and the minutes flown.

Reported by a candidate who had sat the real paper and met it there.

This moved scores. The mix of questions changed, so scores from before this are kept separately rather than compared with new ones.

Every change to every test is at what has changed. If this test does something the real one does not, tell us.

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