I just took the ASTB and I'm wondering if anyone else who has taken it can shed some light on the emergency procedures section.
Prior to this section, it gives you a chance to calibrate the E/I dials. If you turn them all the way clockwise, they go to 100% and all the way counterclockwise they go to 0%. In the emergency procedures section, some of the required actions are "turn the fuel/power all the way up or all the way down." I assumed that turning the dials clockwise would yield a positive reading and turning them counterclockwise would yield a negative reading, IE if I wanted to turn the fuel to max I would rotate the "E" dial clockwise. However, when I rotated the "E" dial all the way clockwise, the fuel gauge on the screen showed that I had turned it to the minimum setting. (The same was true for the I dial and the power gauge). I finally caught on for the last procedure and turned the dials the opposite directions (clockwise for negative and counterclockwise for positive) to resolve the emergency procedure, but I'm sure my score suffered because I missed the first two.
The joystick controls are obviously inverted on the Y axis, and I was expecting this, but for the dials to be inverted just doesn't make sense.
My recruiter reached out to the APEX people and they said that was the way it was supposed to be, but I am skeptical that turning the dial clockwise yielding a positive percent reading during the calibration and turning the dial in the same direction yields a negative reading in the actual test is the way it's supposed to be. Maybe that is the correct way, but if someone who has taken the test and remembers can confirm/disconfirm this I'd appreciate it.
Prior to this section, it gives you a chance to calibrate the E/I dials. If you turn them all the way clockwise, they go to 100% and all the way counterclockwise they go to 0%. In the emergency procedures section, some of the required actions are "turn the fuel/power all the way up or all the way down." I assumed that turning the dials clockwise would yield a positive reading and turning them counterclockwise would yield a negative reading, IE if I wanted to turn the fuel to max I would rotate the "E" dial clockwise. However, when I rotated the "E" dial all the way clockwise, the fuel gauge on the screen showed that I had turned it to the minimum setting. (The same was true for the I dial and the power gauge). I finally caught on for the last procedure and turned the dials the opposite directions (clockwise for negative and counterclockwise for positive) to resolve the emergency procedure, but I'm sure my score suffered because I missed the first two.
The joystick controls are obviously inverted on the Y axis, and I was expecting this, but for the dials to be inverted just doesn't make sense.
My recruiter reached out to the APEX people and they said that was the way it was supposed to be, but I am skeptical that turning the dial clockwise yielding a positive percent reading during the calibration and turning the dial in the same direction yields a negative reading in the actual test is the way it's supposed to be. Maybe that is the correct way, but if someone who has taken the test and remembers can confirm/disconfirm this I'd appreciate it.
