Spatial Apperception

[thenuge]

Hello,

I have been a member on Airwarriors for a little while now. I have read up on the ASTB forums and there is some awesome gouge out there. This site is amazing! I need help with the Spatial Apperception though. I have the Cliffnotes Military Aviation study guide to study the apperception but it does not make any sense. At one point they show the same image of perception in two consecutive questions and then say that the degree of pitch and bank differ. After that I just needed to write in and ask. Is there any other good gouge out there for this section?

Background info:

Prior enlisted for 5 years
2.5 years in VF-103 Jolly Rogers, worked TARPS and LANTIRN
graduate after this semester 3.5 GPA photography

I guess that's the info most people put up here.

 

[NavyLonghorn]

Irony: Photographer hates the spacial perception section.

 

[BigRed389]

Make it systematic. You won't have a lot of time so you wanna be able to knock it out.

Heading Relative to Coastline, Pitch, Bank.

Other than that one error the book's answers are accurate. Just know that on the actual test you'll have more than one angle of bank, and the plane will look a little different. But it's definitely doable.

 

[Spot]

Practice, practice, practice. That's what I did when I took the ASTB. When you think you have it down, think of how they may draw the picture to screw with you, and do some that way.
But it's like BigRed said.. Coastline, Pitch, Bank.

 

[thenuge]

good info...thank you

 

[skim]

the cliffs book sucks, go with the arco 7th edition. I have both and took version 4 and the arco is similar and doesnt have errors like the cliffs.

 

[purduenavy]

What helped me out a ton was I used my pencil to make a horizon in the center of the picture, both horizontally and vertically. I got all 7s so you might want to give that a shot.

 

[BarrettRC8]

Irony: Photographer hates the spacial perception section.

Haha.

But seriously, just work out a scheme. Figure out whether you're going out to sea or towards land first, then climbing/descending/maintaining second, and finally the bank-left or right and degree. Get to the point where you can do one question every 10 seconds and you'll be golden. I don't believe I missed any on that portion. And keep in mind that the actual test is much harder than any of the practice questions, so get to the point where the practice questions are a breeze.

 

[thenuge]

Haha.

But seriously, just work out a scheme. Figure out whether you're going out to sea or towards land first, then climbing/descending/maintaining second, and finally the bank-left or right and degree. Get to the point where you can do one question every 10 seconds and you'll be golden.

sounds good, I'll take your advice.

 

[Kenny3219]

here is a web site that might give you some hints.

http://www.navygouge.com/newstuff/ASTB_gouge/ASTB1.pdf

 

[thenuge]

Cool, thanks.

is that gouge part of the marine test prep? I downloaded the marine prep from the columbia.edu link but this part was not in that download. Anyway, this is good info. Thanks

 

[todd740]

The first time I saw those damn things was on the test itself. It wasnt in the Gouge we had at our unit.

 

[thenuge]

I thought these were way easier to decipher than the ones in the Cliffnotes.

 

[rcastor426]

damn tweaks!!!!!! i was airframes in VF-11 for 4 years. i personally did not like the cliff notes book. the arco book was much better.

 

[Bird_Dog322]

Keep in mind that the actual test's spatial app questions are brutal compared to the test prep. I do not know why the test prep does this. Be prepared to see planes diving, banking, climbing, zippin' around at every last angle you'd ever be able to imagine. Sometimes you can see about 0.5 inches of land in the picture. The lines are never parallel, the pictures are fuzzy, etc.

Basically, it's a ***** on the test. But you can still figure it out using the aforementioned formula.

Right on with this one.

The spat. app. questions on the test totally screwed me up. My brain was used to the ARCO pictures. The varying angles and such is what did it.

@ purduenavy: I like the pencil technique. I'll give it a shot.