yecats99
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BTW: Don't try to do the ASTB, photo, doctor check-up, and PFT in one day. Your PFT will suck!
Okay....just a short overview:
The gouge helped me out, but I would recommend leafing through a flight manual and getting some of the basics down.
This site might help out:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/intro.htm
http://www.fas.org/news/reference/lexicon/acronym.htm (Help with acronyms)
Math/Verbal: This part was pretty easy and didn't deal with much percentages. Work on those annoying problems where it takes 10 hours for 2 guys to make a certain # of pizzas, but if you add 1 guy every hour for the last 4 hours, at what time will the pizzas be made if the 2 original guys started at 11 AM? Know basic algebra and formulas for circumference, area, volume, etc. A lot of the problems you don't even have to work out...just look at the answers and you'll know right away that there's only one possible choice cause the other's are ridiculous #'s. The verbal is not too bad....no replacing words (which I hate passionately) & no definitions or analogies.
Mechanical: Review the gouge on basic physics. There is a hot air balloon question that deals with letting air in or out to gain altitude. Another asks at which point a ball is travelling fastest when it leaves a thrower's hand. Know basic engine stuff. Pulley systems, mechanical advantage, etc. Stuff like that....not too bad.
Spatial Apperception: Pretty easy....the best thing I found to do was to determine whether it was climbing, diving, or level; then if it was banking. I remember in some of the practice tests, a couple of the answers were wrong. You shouldn't have any trouble with the real test, though. Just focus on the ones where the plane is leaving/entering land/water at an angle to the shore.
Aviation/Nautical: Know basic nautical terms (some were draft, forecastle, galley, bulkhead, bow, stern, port/starboard, can/nun buoys, etc). There were a couple WTF questions (I thought I was prepared....apparently not). Color of the lights on a runway at night. Know the radio frequencies (7500=hijack,7600=radio failure/emergency, 7700=general emergency, etc.). Wing loading is the ratio of the weight of the airplane to its wing area. Know the barometric pressure at sea level in inches of Hg (29.92). Know your acronyms for aircraft as well as some watercraft. A CVN is a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. A CGN is a nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser. LHD is a landing helicopter dock & a DDG is a guided missile destroyer.
Know the rules of the air: http://fly.wabyn.net/FlightTraining/PSTAR/1As.htm
How to overtake aircraft (should the faster aircraft pass to the L,R, above, or below?) When coming head-on, which way should the planes head?
Know the different controlling surfaces of an airplane & also take in a little helo knowledge. The main purpose of the tail rotor is to counteract the torque produced by the main rotor.
The Navy was created in 1775.
Understand how lift is related to certain conditions such as increased altitude. This site might help: http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/lifteq.html
The last part was the supplemental portion & it kind of encompassed all the previous sections except for the spatial apperception part. I thought the reading questions in this section were a little tougher and somewhat vague. There's a stupid Milky Way question that pissed me off. Anyway, good luck!
I don't remember my exact scores....something like 6/7/6 and a 60...something like that. If you have any other questions, let me know. Feel free to call as well. (863) 610-2243. Stacey
I took my test in Orlando and you can go back on questions on the computer and they let me use scratch paper for every section.
Okay....just a short overview:
The gouge helped me out, but I would recommend leafing through a flight manual and getting some of the basics down.
This site might help out:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/intro.htm
http://www.fas.org/news/reference/lexicon/acronym.htm (Help with acronyms)
Math/Verbal: This part was pretty easy and didn't deal with much percentages. Work on those annoying problems where it takes 10 hours for 2 guys to make a certain # of pizzas, but if you add 1 guy every hour for the last 4 hours, at what time will the pizzas be made if the 2 original guys started at 11 AM? Know basic algebra and formulas for circumference, area, volume, etc. A lot of the problems you don't even have to work out...just look at the answers and you'll know right away that there's only one possible choice cause the other's are ridiculous #'s. The verbal is not too bad....no replacing words (which I hate passionately) & no definitions or analogies.
Mechanical: Review the gouge on basic physics. There is a hot air balloon question that deals with letting air in or out to gain altitude. Another asks at which point a ball is travelling fastest when it leaves a thrower's hand. Know basic engine stuff. Pulley systems, mechanical advantage, etc. Stuff like that....not too bad.
Spatial Apperception: Pretty easy....the best thing I found to do was to determine whether it was climbing, diving, or level; then if it was banking. I remember in some of the practice tests, a couple of the answers were wrong. You shouldn't have any trouble with the real test, though. Just focus on the ones where the plane is leaving/entering land/water at an angle to the shore.
Aviation/Nautical: Know basic nautical terms (some were draft, forecastle, galley, bulkhead, bow, stern, port/starboard, can/nun buoys, etc). There were a couple WTF questions (I thought I was prepared....apparently not). Color of the lights on a runway at night. Know the radio frequencies (7500=hijack,7600=radio failure/emergency, 7700=general emergency, etc.). Wing loading is the ratio of the weight of the airplane to its wing area. Know the barometric pressure at sea level in inches of Hg (29.92). Know your acronyms for aircraft as well as some watercraft. A CVN is a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. A CGN is a nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser. LHD is a landing helicopter dock & a DDG is a guided missile destroyer.
Know the rules of the air: http://fly.wabyn.net/FlightTraining/PSTAR/1As.htm
How to overtake aircraft (should the faster aircraft pass to the L,R, above, or below?) When coming head-on, which way should the planes head?
Know the different controlling surfaces of an airplane & also take in a little helo knowledge. The main purpose of the tail rotor is to counteract the torque produced by the main rotor.
The Navy was created in 1775.
Understand how lift is related to certain conditions such as increased altitude. This site might help: http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/lifteq.html
The last part was the supplemental portion & it kind of encompassed all the previous sections except for the spatial apperception part. I thought the reading questions in this section were a little tougher and somewhat vague. There's a stupid Milky Way question that pissed me off. Anyway, good luck!
I don't remember my exact scores....something like 6/7/6 and a 60...something like that. If you have any other questions, let me know. Feel free to call as well. (863) 610-2243. Stacey
I took my test in Orlando and you can go back on questions on the computer and they let me use scratch paper for every section.
I took the ASTB today and it was cake until the nautical and aviation part. Every question I was unsure about this answered in this thread. If I just would have looked at it last night...