Spatial Orientation
Neuro-SensomotoricRead your compass heading and a beacon's bearing, then judge where the beacon lies relative to your aircraft. Tests spatial orientation and sense of direction under time pressure.
Overview
Spatial Orientation measures your sense of direction: the ability to hold a stable mental map of where things are around you and to keep it after your heading changes. Each item gives your aircraft's heading and the true bearing to a beacon or landmark; you rotate that world into your own cockpit frame and judge whether the target is ahead, behind, or off to one side — the relative-bearing combination RelativeBearing = Bearing − Heading. That heading-plus-bearing judgement is the skill DLR, cut-e and COMPASS pilot batteries assess. Two presentations are offered. The north-up plan view draws the geometry on a labelled map — a deliberate training aid and the stepping stone: it makes the mental rotation visible while you build it, but it also lets you read the angle off the screen. Instruments only withholds the map and gives just a heading indicator and a bearing pointer, so the Heading + RelativeBearing = Bearing step must happen in your head — the instruments-not-map presentation the real cut-e (GYRO+RBI) and COMPASS bearing items use; in review the plan view is revealed as the explanation. This exercise trains the underlying skill and builds reading speed; targets are provisional and descriptive, not a selection prediction.
Assessments
Tested in assessments at Transavia, Emirates, Etihad and Delta Air Lines.
Could show up in DLR, cut-e / Aon and COMPASS-based selections.
Airline mappings are based on public information and may change.
Example: where is the beacon relative to you?
North is fixed at the top. Read your heading from the compass and find the star on the ring, then rotate the picture into your own cockpit frame — nose = straight ahead — and decide where the target sits. The correct answer is highlighted below.
From the cockpit, where do you see the control tower?
Game Phases
Configure
Choose duration, difficulty and presentation — plan view (training aid) or instruments only (as the real tests present it).
Orient
Read your heading and the beacon's bearing, rotate into your cockpit frame, then pick the relative direction.
Review
After finishing, review your score and inspect each item's plan view, relative-bearing answer and explanation — the plan view is revealed here even for instruments-only runs.
More Practice
Spatial Orientation
11 exercisesSpatial Awareness
Visualise a 3D shape from a fixed viewpoint and pick the matching 2D view. Tests mental rotation and spatial perception under time pressure.
Mental Rotation
See a 3-D block figure, then pick the option that is the same object rotated — not a mirror image or a different shape. The classic Shepard–Metzler / Vandenberg–Kuse task.
Cube Folding
Mentally fold a flat net of six symboled faces into a cube, then pick which of four folded cubes it makes. Tests spatial visualisation and 2D-to-3D reasoning under time pressure.
Sense of Direction
One 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.
ENAC Tetralogy of Angles
Read which way a small clock runs, then measure the turn from one line to another in that direction. In the ENAC EPL form you type 40 angles in four parts of 10: over a picture, between an arrow and a point, around a cross, and as an object to straighten. In the Air France Cadets form you get a figure and 8 clocks, each printing a value, and you tick every clock that matches the angle.
ENAC Point Tracking
Two figures side by side. The round one holds a few circles and four points lettered A to D. The square one is the same figure, turned in the plane and moved, with only one of the four points left and sometimes a circle or two added. You name the point that was kept. The exam format is 32 boards in 6:30 on one clock.
ENAC Objects Tracking
Two pictures, one above the other. In the lower one, an object is circled and five more carry the letters A to E. The upper one holds the same objects moved over together, among plenty of others. Tick the letters still at the same distance and direction from the circled object, and still exactly the same. The exam format is 30 boards in 12 minutes.
ENAC Patrons de Dés
A die with a letter or a rune on each face, two or three views of it, and its net laid flat with the cells numbered. Type under each symbol the number of the cell it goes in. The symbols are already turned the way they lie on the net, so the cell you pick decides how each one sits on the die. The exam format is two parts of 10 boards, 20:00 a part for Air France Cadets and 17:00 for the ENAC EPL.
ENAC 3 Dimension Rotations
A chair starts in a slanted position, then 4 turns follow, one at a time. Each turn is a ball with an arrow and an angle, always a multiple of 45°, and you only see the chair itself beside the first one. Then you picture the chair from a named side, say from the right or from above, and pick it out of 5 pictures. The exam format is 40 boards, 5 seconds a turn and 15 seconds to answer.
ENAC Cube Nets 2D/3D
Two nets of the same die side by side: the original, complete, and yours, unfolded from the die turned another way, with a few faces in place. Drag the other faces onto yours so that it folds back into the same die, and turn the letters the right way round. The exam format is 5 boards, 90 seconds each.
ENAC Viewpoint Finder
A photograph shows a few simple solids standing in the sand. Beside it, the same scene is drawn from directly above, with eight camera positions round it, and every camera looks at the centre. Click the position the photograph was taken from. The shadows, the left-to-right order of the objects, and the objects you can't see all tell you where you're standing. The exam format is 10 boards with 20 seconds each.