Speed, Distance & Time

Overview

Speed, Distance & Time measures whether you can apply the single most important relationship in practical navigation — distance = speed × time — quickly and accurately in your head, rearranging it to solve for whichever quantity is missing and extending it to fuel flow, endurance and estimated time of arrival. It is a mental-arithmetic test built on a real-world model rather than bare sums: you must first decide which quantity is being asked for and which operation recovers it, then compute under time pressure without a calculator. As used by COMPASS (whose ~24-question maths module frames many items around speed, distance, time and fuel), ADAPT (Speed/Time/Distance plus fuel-rate calculation), the DLR written word-problem module and the RAF Airborne Numerical Test (speed/distance/time and fuel consumption, one minute per question, no calculator, with occasional weather-driven speed reductions), you work timed multiple-choice items of increasing difficulty at the reference tests' own pace of roughly 45 seconds per item — the 18-minute preset mirrors the COMPASS module's 24 questions in 18 minutes exactly. This is a familiarisation and practice tool, not a validated assessment — the target scores are provisional practice anchors, not passing scores.

Assessments

Could show up in COMPASS, ADAPT and DLR-based selections.

Airline mappings are based on public information and may change.

Example: solve for the time

You are shown two of speed, distance and time and asked for the third. Pick the right form of the triangle — distance = speed × time — rearrange, and choose the matching value.