SAWorking memory

Situational Awareness

Holding a rich tactical picture from one brief exposure: each unit’s type, allegiance, heading and position, plus two controllers’ waypoints, altitude and comms channel.

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What this test involves

You have 4 minutes. Turn your sound on — each picture is a short spoken briefing you have to memorise.
Contacts are called out one at a time: as each is spoken it appears on the grid (and its data-link card), then the previous one clears.
The grid runs rows A–J, columns 0–9. Units are yellow friendly, red hostile or white unknown, each with a type glyph, heading arrow and callsign.
Two controller aircraft (green “Cp”) each carry a side panel: next waypoint and the time due there, altitude and comms channel.
When the briefing ends the picture clears and one fact is asked — you will not know which, so hold as much as you can. Press 1–4 or click.