Instrument Monitoring Test
Neuro-SensomotoricWatch a bank of cockpit gauges and catch the moment any needle drifts out of its green band — before the response window closes.
Overview
The Instrument Monitoring Test measures supervisory attention across many information sources: you scan a bank of gauges and detect the rare moment a needle leaves its nominal band. In the cockpit this is the instrument cross-check — catching a parameter leaving its limit early, often while flying, navigating and communicating at the same time. Three variants match the batteries that use this format. The Generic dial bank is the DLR-style multi-monitoring archetype. The Adaptive Gauges variant is a 2-minute dial-bank run whose difficulty adapts to your performance, an adaptive-pressure drill of our own design. The COMPASS-style Task Manager run adds warning-light emphasis plus a concurrent code-entry side task, with a fixed 3-second window in this practice version. For the real cut-e scales cmo format, the moving-dots counting screen, practise the Monitoring Ability Test instead. This is a descriptive practice tool: it reports your own hit rate, false-alarm rate and reaction time rather than a percentile or pass/fail verdict.
Assessments
Tested in assessments at Transavia, Emirates and Etihad.
Could show up in DLR and COMPASS-based selections.
Airline mappings are based on public information and may change.
Example: catching a deviation
Each dial flutters harmlessly inside its green band. Watch this one: the needle creeps out of the green and into the amber — that is the out-of-tolerance event. The instant it leaves green, a response ring starts depleting. Click the gauge or press its number key 1 before the ring runs out to score the point.
Game Phases
Scan
A bank of round dials flutters inside its green bands. Keep a steady scan across every instrument — the signal is rare and unpredictable.
Detect
Occasionally one needle creeps out through the amber toward a red limit, or a warning light illuminates. That is the out-of-tolerance event you must catch.
Acknowledge
Click the offending instrument, or press its number key (lights: L, or 0 for the second light), within the response window. The depleting ring shows how long you have.
Stay Accurate
Acknowledging an instrument that is still nominal is a false alarm (−1), and letting the window elapse is a miss (−1). Precision beats twitchiness.
More Practice
Reaction & Attention
19 exercisesComplex Choice Reaction Test
Compare a target figure against four reference shapes and decide within 2.5 seconds whether it matches one of them.
Vigilance Test (VIGIL)
Test your attention and reaction speed. Detect when the moving circle skips a position.
Determination Test (DT)
Test your reaction speed with colors, directional arrows, and sounds across adaptive difficulty levels.
Perceptual Speed
Compare two strings at a glance and decide — same or different? Rapid-fire detail checking against the clock.
Simple Reaction Time
A single signal appears after an unpredictable delay — respond as fast as you can. Measures your mean reaction time, your fastest response, and how consistent you are. Includes a Pair Match mode in the format of cut-e's Reaction Speed test: press only when two symbols match.
Stroop Test
Name the ink colour, not the word. A colour word streams on screen in a possibly-mismatched ink — select the ink colour and resist reading the word.
Visual Scanning
Sweep a cluttered field and connect the numbers in order — 1, 2, 3 … — as fast as you can find them.
Processing Speed
Learn a digit–symbol key, then match a rapid stream of symbols to their digits as fast as you can. Pure coding speed against the clock.
Attention Switching
Connect scattered numbers and letters in alternating order — 1, A, 2, B, 3, C … — switching mental tracks on every single step.
Auditory Detection Test
Monitor a spoken number stream in your headphones and respond only to the targets — or to the hidden even/odd runs.
Time Anticipation Test
A green ball flies at constant speed, then vanishes before a marked line. Press at the exact moment it would cross — then point to where. Timing error in milliseconds, position error in pixels, in the style of Schuhfried's ZBA.
Signal Detection Test
Watch a dark field of about 25 small white dots that appear and disappear at random, and press the moment four of them form a square. A practice version of SIGNAL, Schuhfried's signal-detection vigilance test in the Vienna Test System, with the S1 white-on-black and S2 black-on-white forms and a sudden-death Challenge mode.
Monitoring Ability Test
Count the blue dots drifting inside a circle and pick the exact number from five buttons before the clock runs out. A faithful practice version of scales cmo, cut-e's name for this test, also called the CUT-E Monitoring Ability Test.
ENAC Symbol Counting
Two counting exercises, and every board gets interrupted twice by a grid of colour words. In Attention 2 you count one symbol among two others that look a lot like it. In Attention 3 you count the x signs, minus after a / and plus again after a +. Each grid stays open for 12 seconds. In Attention 2 you tick the words written in their own colour, and in Attention 3 the ones that aren't. The exam format is 10 boards of each, 90 seconds a board.
ENAC Sustained Attention
You see four characters in four places: NW, NE, SW and SE. Then each board shows four grids of characters, one in each place, and for each place you say whether its own character is in its grid. The grids are built from those same four characters, so only the one that belongs to the place counts. The exam format is 3 series of 5 boards, with 3 minutes for each series.
ENAC Dials Reading
Eight car and aircraft dials, with a table underneath that has a column for each of their ten readings. Tick the value each dial shows. You get to study the dials before the clock starts, and they stay put for the whole run. The exam format is 10 boards in 6 minutes.
ENAC Odd and Even
A board of numbered circles, scattered over the whole screen. Starting from START, click every one, odd and even in turn, with the odd numbers in ascending order and the even ones in ascending order, each on its own. A wrong click sends you back to START. The exam format is 5 boards with 90 seconds each.
ENAC Shapes and Colours
One shape at a time, filled or empty, in one of two colours. Two rules tell you whether to press X or N, and the colour says which rule to use. Each shape shows for half a second, and the exam format is 32 shapes, one every 3.2 seconds.
ENAC Mosaic Count
A black figure made of 16 tiles in a 4 × 4 square, with no lines between them. Count how many there are of each of the ten kinds and type each count under its tile, with a 0 for every kind that isn’t there. The exam format is 24 boards in 10 minutes.