Sense of Direction
Neuro-SensomotoricOne arrow shows your vehicle's new heading; you name the driving maneuver that got you there — straight, left, right or U-turn — on a circular four-wedge control. A practice version of scales nav, Aon's (cut-e's) Sense of Direction test: one minute, arrows chaining item to item, your heading held only in memory, plus a sudden-death Challenge mode.
Overview
Sense of Direction is a practice version of scales nav, Aon's (formerly cut-e's) test of the same name, used in pilot and driver aptitude screening. The real screen asks you to "indicate the driving manoeuvre": one boxed arrow shows the vehicle's new heading from a top-down view, and you answer on a circular control split into four wedges — straight ahead, turn left, turn right, U-turn — against a seconds-left countdown, for one minute of generated items. The construct is maintaining orientation through successive maneuvers: each arrow must be judged from the heading you were just on, so a left-pointing arrow is a LEFT turn when you were heading up but a RIGHT turn becomes correct when an up arrow follows a left heading. That rotated-frame re-anchoring, item after item with the current heading held only in memory, is the whole test. Our screen format, response control and one-minute default follow the archived first-party material; the item-to-item chaining model is reconstructed from converging reproductions, because Aon has never documented the item dynamics publicly. The explicit starting-heading reference before item 1, the three-item warm-up with the previous arrow visible, and the 2- and 3-minute extended presets are our own additions, disclosed as such — as is the sudden-death Challenge: no clock, an endless arrow stream, one point per correct maneuver, and the run ending at the first wrong one. Only Challenge runs enter the Top Scores leaderboard.
Assessments
Could show up in cut-e / Aon-based selections.
Airline mappings are based on public information and may change.
Example: three chained maneuvers
Each item shows only your new heading. The answer is the maneuver that connects the heading you were just on to the arrow now on screen — then that arrow becomes your heading for the next item. The previous arrow is drawn here as a teaching aid; the timed run withholds it.
Before item 1 you are shown your starting direction — here ↑. Memorise it: every arrow that follows is judged from the heading you were just on.
Game Phases
Anchor your heading
Before item 1 a labeled reference arrow shows your starting direction. Commit it to memory — from here on, your current heading lives only in your head.
Read the new arrow
Each item is a single boxed arrow: the vehicle's NEW heading after a maneuver, seen from above. Arrows point in any of eight directions, diagonals included.
Judge from your rotated frame
The maneuver connects your previous heading to the new arrow, in the driver's frame — not the screen's. Previous ↑ then ← shown is a left turn; previous ← then ↑ shown is a right turn.
Re-anchor and repeat
The arrow you just judged becomes your new heading. Answering advances immediately, so the chain never pauses: hold the heading, read, judge, re-anchor, for the whole run.
More Practice
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