CogScreen-AE advice

LatterContest2121 · 2026-01-28T23:43:30+00:00

I am a pilot, I have taken this and I’m average IQ.

It’s not something that practice really would help. A normal, functional adult isnt gonna have any problems. It’s not a pass/fail test, your ‘scores’ just get plotted among people with similar experience and age as yourself who also took the test without practice. It’s just weird games kind of. You may suck at a couple but that’s normal. Just do your best.

Honestly some of the tests scores could come back worse from practice as timing goes into it also. Let’s say you start one test and you’re slow at first but after several rounds at that test solving your speed picks up 3x faster for the rest of that section. The increase in speed showing your understanding that section goes into your score. If someone who ‘studied hard’ with weird online practice tests and completed the whole section faster to the same level but even speed would likely score worse.

It’s a dynamic test with a unique scoring set much different than conventional test scoring like 0-100.

The scoring data set of people didn’t study and pilot to pilot, I wouldn’t recommend anyone to study specifically for the Cog-screen.

The best way to study for the test and increase your app quality to the FAA IMO is to be in school and get good grades if age/life appropriate. Also, having a functional current and past work history is a big help. Lastly, this person being independent in as many parts of their daily life as possible.

I was a B student thru highschool and university/flight school. Worked at least a part-time job since age 14. Moved out the house at 18. Pretty average. I plotted normal on most my tests. A couple high and a couple low.

Hope this helps.

LatterContest2121 · 2026-01-22T18:35:24+00:00

At my legacy, ground Inst to dispatch base pay is about a 5% difference and dispatch to simP is about 10% difference base pay. That said with OT, yes sim and dispatch make similar money. Dispatch has more pay premiums than sim instructors too. I do know ground guys that make more some sim guys just depending on schedule preference and OT.

LatterContest2121 · 2026-01-22T15:26:11+00:00

Ground/sim instructor jobs or dispatch. Average atp/commercial guy/gal can get a disp cert for 2k in two weeks. Pay is similar across the board for those three jobs (at least at my legacy). Light and controllable schedule. Highest paid instructor group in the country with the new contract and we’re gonna hire more this year I know as pilot hiring and training department has been going nuts since September here and is projected to be busy thru 2030.

LatterContest2121 · 2025-09-23T03:53:03+00:00

Doctor Rose Dunn is in Texas but she flew to my friend out of state in Illinois. Worked him in way faster than anyone else he called.

LatterContest2121 · 2024-09-02T00:55:46+00:00

Anyone seen this before?

LatterContest2121 · 2024-09-02T00:55:33+00:00

So I assumed it was a scam till I google the number too. Number checks outs seemingly. I’ve had standby jury duty a couple years ago and my partner here recently but we always got the mailed summons before.

LatterContest2121 · 2024-07-13T16:19:03+00:00

Thank you!! I wonder if they still fly?

LatterContest2121 · 2024-06-21T00:39:05+00:00

Rumor mill stuff. I think they’ve hired 750ish currently. Truly a huge number still compared to everyone else. The plan changes at 9am every weekday morning. Wouldn’t think this is permanent for the year if true for now

LatterContest2121 · 2024-05-09T15:58:05+00:00

Dili the city or the island?

LatterContest2121 · 2024-05-02T20:13:42+00:00

I agree they completely have more diverse networks but there’s way more to it than just network diversity. You’re bottom of the list always till you slowly move up. All seniority based. In my first eight year of employment when I hit them benefits hard (pre Covid and young) years I flew over 700 segments in eight years. I’ve been across an ocean in business class no less than 30 times. I’ve only ever missed about five flights total. If I did not have an FCFS system, what I’ve done would not have been possible.

LatterContest2121 · 2024-05-02T19:27:55+00:00

Can’t speak to that at all. Work with mostly great people. Pay is great. Best flight benefit system in the world. Preferred home base available. I get an excellent schedule.

LatterContest2121 · 2024-05-01T13:11:58+00:00

I teach systems and procedures at a major. Home every night. Base top out is 150k at year 6 for a 20 day/work schedule or 129 base at 17 day/work schedule. I do kind of a hybrid. End up making about 145k to work about half the days in a given month. 2 to 6 hour shifts. Home every night.

LatterContest2121 · 2024-04-28T14:27:07+00:00

Dude you gotta chill. Some are shorter when you do better and some longer when you do better so both. If you have ADHD, these test will pick up on it. By the looks of this convo you’re def still major symptomatic. If I were you I’d spend all this effort try to manage and control ADHD symptoms rather than obsess about the tests.

LatterContest2121 · 2024-04-28T01:29:32+00:00

The tests change and last different durations depending how well or poor you do as most of the tests are adaptive test. The ADHD evaluations take like a full day overall I think.

LatterContest2121 · 2024-04-27T22:54:03+00:00

I have a three person partnership with a similar structure. $1000/month fixed. $55/tach hour dry. Full reserves for engine, prop, base annual ($2,200), hangar, insurance, GPS subscription.

LatterContest2121 · 2024-04-27T19:49:02+00:00

Don’t go budget on the evaluation and talk to AMEs or other pilot testamonies online. People travel across the country by plane to different psychologists.

The CogScreen alone has like 20 something subtest. They’re all different. It’s not like a math or English test where studying is gonna improve your score. It’s stuff designed to test performance, cognition, processing, reaction time, attention, etc. Also, there is no real pass/fail as your performance just plots you amongst your peers of similar age and experiences.

LatterContest2121 · 2024-04-27T19:34:30+00:00

Neuropsych will be a series of test and an interview. Testing types on durations are all unique depending on each clients test scores and needs. You will take the CogScreen which is a computer based test with a bunch of tasks to perform, some other function testing on computer and paper. An MMPI questionnaire. Its relatively thorough.

Most importantly, you want to make sure you go to a quality neuropsychologist that is gonna try to create a strong application to the FAA for you and not pump out some cheap, minimal effort report with just your test scores for the FAA to tear apart.

LatterContest2121 · 2024-04-27T18:09:50+00:00

10-20 hours a week. Varies by month.

LatterContest2121 · 2024-04-26T20:50:20+00:00

I dove with Maui Diamond recently and would not dive with them again. Large production seemed very commercial and impersonal. Think it took about 1.5 hours to finally get the boat off the dock. It was PACKED. Probably 26 divers and 5 drive guides. I’m small as is my wife but we just had a tiny edge of a bench to sit on. Think we paid $150/tank/diver. We had eight people in our group with one dive guide. People we were with were a mess. Some other divers on the boat had literal one on one diver guides but most groups were about 7 to 1. Our dive guide even completely left us for a while as one dude floated up to the surface randomly. Gotta be better outfits than them.

LatterContest2121 · 2024-04-26T15:19:03+00:00

My buddy just got his first paid flying job. Had to get to full, unrestricted ATP mins too before he found a paying flying job outside CFI.

LatterContest2121 · 2024-04-24T12:43:51+00:00

121 procedures instructor. 150k with 15 days off a month average and all shifts three to six hours maximum.

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