What is the TestAir360: Eye-Hand Coordination test in the Wizz Air Pilot Academy selection process?
It is a continuous balance task with a second job layered on top. A ball rests on a plank hinged in the middle; you tilt the plank left with W and right with P, and your job is to keep the ball inside a grey target band that teleports to a new place every six to fourteen seconds. There is no round structure and no question to answer — the exam mode simply runs for five minutes. Two things make it hard: the plank keeps tilting after you release a key, and the centre is unstable, so a ball even slightly off centre pushes the plank further in that direction on its own.
Which keys does it use, and can I play it on a touch screen?
Only five keys matter. W tilts the plank left and P tilts it right — they are held down, not tapped, because the plank accelerates for as long as a key is down. SPACE gives you a new ball after one rolls off. G, Y, R and B answer the coloured alerts. Arrow keys are not bound. On a touch screen the two circles in the bottom corners do exactly what W and P do, and you can hold them; the alert circle can be clicked instead of typed, which always sends the right key. If you switch tabs the module releases both keys for you, so the plank is never left stuck at an angle.
What is actually scored?
Not time inside the band, and not the alerts. On every frame the module measures how far the ball is from the centre of the target, divides it by the half-length of the plank, and averages the result over the whole session. Dropping the ball costs you the time you spend off the plank — those frames are simply not sampled — and the alerts are recorded separately and never enter the number. One consequence is worth knowing before you read your result: because the target is always drawn around the centre, a session with no input at all still averages about 62. The headline score therefore says very little at the low end, which is why the time-in-band line matters more.
What happens when the ball rolls off the plank?
Everything stops. The countdown, the alert window and the whole simulation freeze until you press SPACE for a new ball, so there is no reason to rush — use the pause to check whether the controls are currently reversed. A fresh ball resets its position, its speed and the plank angle, but it does not reset the reversal state, which is how most people lose the replacement ball within a second or two. For scale: measured on the module’s own engine, a single 17 ms touch with no correction afterwards loses the ball 7.4 s later, and a key held down without release loses it in 2.15 s.
What are the coloured circles for?
They are a second, unrelated task running on top of the balance. In exam mode a circle stays for four seconds and the next is scheduled three to eight seconds after that, so they arrive seven to twelve seconds apart if you ignore them — and roughly three seconds after each answer if you do not. It wants the first letter of its colour: G, Y, R or B. Clicking the circle also works and is always correct. The incentives are unusual and worth internalising: a wrong colour key costs nothing at all — the circle stays open, the score is untouched and it is not counted as an error — while saying nothing uses up the whole four seconds and is recorded as a miss. Answering correctly brings the next circle forward: it is then due three seconds after your answer instead of seven to twelve, so answering makes them arrive more often, not less. So guess rather than hesitate, but never trade the ball for a circle.
Do the controls really reverse, and is there any warning?
Yes, and yes. At intervals drawn between fifteen and forty seconds the two keys swap places, about 10 times in a five-minute session. It is not hidden: the module prints CONTROLS REVERSED across the middle of the play area for as long as it lasts, so the skill being tested is reading the screen while you are already busy, not guessing. Measured on the engine, the same controller loses 7.8 points purely by ignoring that line — 60.2 with the line read against 52.4 without it, over forty seeded sessions.
What is the difference between the four modes?
Only two things change: how wide the target band is and how often the alerts come. EASY runs three minutes with the widest band (16.7 % of the plank) and feedback switched on — the band changes colour so you can see exactly where "inside" is. MEDIUM runs four minutes with a narrower band (11.9 %) and no feedback. HARD and EXAM are identical to each other: five minutes and the narrowest band (8.33 %). Everything else — the physics, the six-to-fourteen-second target jumps, the fifteen-to-forty-second reversals, the four-second alert window — is the same in all four. EASY is not a slowed-down version; it is the same speed with a wider band and the answer shown to you.
Is the demo on this page the real module?
Yes. The player above loads the same module from hub.cadetpro.com that PRO subscribers use, inside a sandboxed frame, with no sign-up. All four modes are open in the demo. What PRO adds is the detailed performance analysis after each session and unlimited access across the whole Wizz Air module set.
Is this an official Wizz Air product?
No. CADETPRO is an independent preparation platform. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to Wizz Air or Aon in any way, and it does not promise a pass or a job. What it provides is practice against a faithful reproduction of the task and a detailed report on how you performed.
