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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
- Free version, or Premium
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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.
- 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.
- 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.
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