Spatial / Visual Relationship
Whose left are we talking about?
Sixty questions at two seconds each, with no pause between them. Every question shows a large aircraft and a small one, and a box reading "right" or "left". You are in the cockpit of the large aircraft, so ITS heading decides which side is its right — then you say whether the box is correct. From question 31 an eye icon appears on some of them, and when it does you answer from the control tower, which is where the eye is drawn: your line of sight runs from there to the large aircraft, and its heading stops mattering. Both halves are perspective problems, and which side of the picture something sits on is the wrong answer about half the time.
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What to expect
- Two aircraft on a sector chart, and a box saying "right" or "left".
- Two seconds a question, running straight on — nothing waits for you.
- An eye icon on some questions from 31 onwards.
- T and F on the keyboard; an unanswered question is scored wrong.
What it measures
- Perspective taking
- Left/right discrimination under time pressure
- Switching frame of reference on a cue
Instructions
- 1No eye: take the large aircraft's point of view. Its nose decides which side is its right, and where things sit on the screen is irrelevant.
- 2Eye: answer from the tower, where the eye is drawn. Face the large aircraft along the line from the eye to it, and read right and left from there.
- 3Press T if the box agrees with you, F if it does not — you are judging the statement, not naming the side.
- 4Nothing can be changed once a question has gone.
Tips
- Read the large aircraft's nose first, before you look at the small one. Finding the small one first makes you read the screen's left and right, which is the wrong answer half the time.
- When the aircraft points down the screen, its right is your left — that inversion is where most of the errors are.
- On an eye question, trace the line from the eye to the large aircraft first. Right is ninety degrees clockwise from that line, which is rarely the right of the screen.
- Check for the eye before anything else once you are past question 30. It changes the rule entirely, and it is easy to answer thirty questions on autopilot.
Spatial / Visual Relationship
The spatial subtest turns on frame of reference: left from the cockpit is not left from the tower, and the test moves between them without warning.
An aircraft is flying due south. From the pilot's seat, another aircraft appears off the left wing. Standing in the tower and looking at the map with north at the top, where is that second aircraft?