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Trace Test 1

CBAT-style practice test · Psychomotor

Reading a manoeuvre from outside the aircraft and converting it to the input its pilot made. Including when the aircraft is head-on and everything you see is mirrored.

Skill area
Psychomotor
Length
8 minutes
Format
Real-time simulation
Cost
Free version, or Premium

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What this test involves

  • The aircraft flies itself; press the key its pilot is pressing.
  • It runs straight, then turns 90° through one of four manoeuvres. One press per turn, AFTER the turn has begun. You then have about a second and a half.
  • ← left turn, → right turn. ↑ is pitch DOWN (stick forward) and ↓ is pitch UP. A joystick or rudder takes precedence over the keys whenever it is deflected.
  • When the aircraft is head-on, what you see is mirrored: a turn that looks right on screen is the pilot turning left. Inverted, the pitch keys swap too.
  • Later on, two more aircraft join and the colours move between them. Always mimic whichever aircraft is currently RED.

How to prepare for the Trace Test 1

  • Use the straight run. It is there to be read: settle the aspect. Nose toward you or away, upright or inverted. Before the turn starts, and the key is then obvious.
  • Nothing counts until the turn actually starts. Anticipating it scores as a key pressed at nothing, which costs a mark. Wait, see it, then press.
  • After a colour swap, find the red aircraft before you touch a key. A second spent looking costs less than several spent flying the wrong one.
▸What has changed in this test (1)· last on 30 Sep 2026
Fixed

Trace Test 1 no longer charges you for answering just after a handover

The aircraft you are tracking hands the red marker to a different one every few seconds. If it manoeuvred just before that happened and you answered a moment later, your answer was checked against the new aircraft, which had not done anything yet, and you were charged for pressing at nothing.

It also meant your pace affected your score in a way it never should have. The handover now waits for the answering window to close, so the situation cannot arise. Answer at whatever pace you actually read the attitude.

This moved scores. Your Trace Test 1 scores were lower than they should have been, so your next run may be several marks higher without you having done anything differently.

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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