Did the PBM today. I will say, if you’ve never practiced inverted, flight sims help. If you have a lot of flight sim experience, I felt it didn’t help beyond feeling comfortable with inverted controls.. It plays out more like a first person shooter than a flight sim. You follow a cursor with a crosshair. For my next attempt I’m going to look into playing CoD or some other fps inverted. For me they had the flightstick and throttle out on the desk during the whole test, so I fiddled around with them during breaks to get comfortable with how they moved.Just had my first attempt. My test crashed as I was about to start the PBM, so they’re having me finish it tomorrow. The math section kicked my ass however. I did Barron’s, trivium, and a lot of Kyle’s for prep. I had several cube roots, one probability problem, and a fair amount of geometry. No DRT and no Logs. I had one simplifying problem, but I think I got it wrong. The problem had a bunch of fraction exponents and a lot of parentheses. It was probably really simple, but my eye just could not catch it. Expecting to have to take it a second time as the Math section felt significantly more difficult than any of the prep I did. It kicked me out with somewhere between 10-13 minutes left, so not ideal to my understanding.
like others have said, write down the emergency procedures. When the instructions are presented, I found it very helpful to do a mental practice of the buttons and emergency procedures.
ex: Even numbers=pull trigger, odd numbers=press clutch. Pretend to press the buttons with your thumb or finger hovering over them as if you heard a respective number before it gives you the practice section. Same thing for emergency procedures, go through each one while on the instruction screen(without accidentally advancing, so “air” tap buttons). There is no practice test for the emergency procedures like there are for the vertical, flightstick, and listening sections, it tosses you straight in. So don’t prematurely hit the trigger.