A 75-second divided-attention exercise in which you hold three flight parameters inside their tolerance bands using keyboard controls, while simultaneously monitoring an audio and visual stream of spoken digits. A response is due whenever a run of three consecutive same-parity digits completes. Tracking accuracy and monitoring hit rate are combined into a single composite score, reflecting the kind of cognitive workload pilots manage during demanding flight phases.
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This measures divided attention and psychomotor coordination together: holding three flight parameters inside tolerance with your hands while an audio and visual digit stream runs in parallel, with a response due on every third same-parity digit. It mirrors the genuinely split workload of flying the aircraft and monitoring a call at once, where neither task is allowed to fail.
Trained pilots use a fixed visual scan pattern to prevent fixating on whichever gauge is most out of band while the others drift away. Practise a clockwise sweep: IAS tape, heading tape, altitude tape, digit display, then repeat. A consistent rhythm keeps all three parameters roughly equal in your attention budget and prevents the common failure mode of losing one axis entirely.
As a rough guide, a composite score above 75 reflects strong divided attention: in our testing it usually means holding all three parameters in tolerance most of the time while still catching the large majority of monitoring marks with very few false alarms. Scores below 50 usually point to task-switching between the two tasks rather than true parallel processing, with one task degrading sharply while the other improves.
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