Instrument Coordination Test
Neuro-SensomotoricHold heading, altitude and speed on their bugs with stick and thrust — while a voice stream demands answers of its own.
Overview
The Instrument Coordination Test measures divided attention in its psychomotor form: continuous multi-channel control plus an independent audio decision stream. It mirrors the publicly documented format of the DLR cockpit coordination task in the Lufthansa-group selection, the module prep vendors call MIC — Basic-T instruments with green target bugs, stick for heading and altitude, thrust buttons for speed, spoken numbers under the even/odd rule — including its known evaluation philosophy: balanced performance across every sub-task beats excellence at one. The same triple-task structure appears in military batteries such as the US Air Force TBAS. This is a descriptive practice tool: it reports your own balance profile, not a percentile or pass/fail verdict.
Assessments
Tested in assessments at Lufthansa Group.
Airline mappings are based on public information and may change.
Example: one bug moves while the stream keeps talking
The panel below is live. Left: a heading command lands and gets re-trimmed. Right: the spoken stream (written out here) completes a run. In the real test both demand you at the same time — that is the construct being measured.
Command change → re-trim
Heading sits on its bug — the ring stays calm.
3rd even → green · 3rd odd → red
"3" is odd — the count continues, no press.
Game Phases
Hold the Basic T
Direction indicator, airspeed and altimeter each carry a green target bug. Ambient drift pulls all three off their bugs — hands-off always degrades, so you are never done.
Re-trim on command
Every 20–40 seconds one bug jumps to a new commanded value and pulses. Fly the needle back onto it — the couplings fight you: climbing bleeds speed, thrust drifts altitude.
Answer the stream
Spoken numbers keep coming: press the green key on the third even in a row, the red key on the third odd — before the next number ends. The audio never waits for the flying.
Balance beats brilliance
The score is the geometric mean of tracking, audio and re-trim quality: a near-zero on any sub-task collapses the total. Needle-chasing one instrument is the documented failure mode.
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