luckynumbr27
Well-Known Member
August SNA applicant here with a question about the ASTB.
I took the ASTB about 8 months ago and got 61 and 7/7/8 on my first attempt. Since then, I’ve been helping a buddy who also wants to fly prepare for the ASTB. We put in a lot of work and I was very confident that he was going to murder it since I put him through the exact studying and sim training that I did and he was doing even better on the practice tests and stick tracking exercises than I ever did. Long story short, he took the test today and texted me a pic of his scores and they were down right abysmal. He said the test crashed 5 separate times and the OR had to come in and log back in to the whole test app each time, not sure how much that effected the scores, but the pic he sent me of the final screen looked totally foreign from the test I took. It was on a website called apex.health.mil and looked nothing like what I’d seen before. Also, he said that for the PFAR section of the test, the stick (not throttle) was inverted. He said left and right were normal but to track up, you had to push the stick down. I know for a FACT that this was not the case with the test when I took it so I’ve been preparing him wrong for 3 months now.
So my question is, did they switch the ASTB up big time in the last few months? Has anyone else had problems with tests crashing and are suspicious that it’s vastly effecting their scores? I’d really like to hear from people who have taken in the last few months and see what you’ve been dealing with.
I took the ASTB about 8 months ago and got 61 and 7/7/8 on my first attempt. Since then, I’ve been helping a buddy who also wants to fly prepare for the ASTB. We put in a lot of work and I was very confident that he was going to murder it since I put him through the exact studying and sim training that I did and he was doing even better on the practice tests and stick tracking exercises than I ever did. Long story short, he took the test today and texted me a pic of his scores and they were down right abysmal. He said the test crashed 5 separate times and the OR had to come in and log back in to the whole test app each time, not sure how much that effected the scores, but the pic he sent me of the final screen looked totally foreign from the test I took. It was on a website called apex.health.mil and looked nothing like what I’d seen before. Also, he said that for the PFAR section of the test, the stick (not throttle) was inverted. He said left and right were normal but to track up, you had to push the stick down. I know for a FACT that this was not the case with the test when I took it so I’ve been preparing him wrong for 3 months now.
So my question is, did they switch the ASTB up big time in the last few months? Has anyone else had problems with tests crashing and are suspicious that it’s vastly effecting their scores? I’d really like to hear from people who have taken in the last few months and see what you’ve been dealing with.