What does Advanced Coordination measure?

Coordination capacity under four simultaneous tracking tasks: producing continuous corrections while splitting attention without dropping any channel.

Do I need all four tasks in tolerance at once?

Ideally yes, but scoring is partial: every moment earns in proportion to how many tasks are in tolerance. A minute at 3/4 can out-earn 45 seconds at 4/4.

How is it different from Compass Multitasking?

Here you continuously track four visible targets; in Multitasking the targets are memorised, hidden and rebuilt from memory — with a digit-alert task layered on top.

How should I train this module?

Settle the two-channel rhythm in Control Task first, then move here. Make scan discipline your single goal; the sub-scores (H/A/S/B) show which channel is lagging.

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Advanced Coordination

Builds on Basic Coordination with heavier tempo and finer control demands.

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Compass Advanced Coordination simulation preview

What it measures

This module measures whether you can keep the same control stability once conditions become harder.

Common mistake

When difficulty rises, candidates often move harder instead of cleaner and lose stability.

Training note

This module is the second technical stop after Basic Coordination.

What this module reveals

Why recruiters care about it

This module measures whether you can keep the same control stability once conditions become harder.

Inside Compass, it is one of the main modules for showing motor quality under higher load.

From a recruiter perspective, the quality shown here reflects how a candidate responds to control pressure.

How to play

Step-by-step simulation flow

A four-task cockpit

The screen holds a full instrument set: the Speed tape on the left, an attitude indicator with flight-director lines in the centre, the Altitude tape on the right, the Heading tape below, and a centre-lined ball rail at the bottom. You track four targets at once.

Advanced Coordination: the four-instrument layout — speed/altitude tapes, attitude indicator, heading tape and the ball rail

The controls

Heading is flown with ← / → (via bank), Altitude with ↓ / ↑ (via pitch), Speed with W / S, and the ball with Z / X; a joystick is supported too. Target values are drawn in magenta and drift on their own.

Stay inside the tolerances

Each task has a tolerance: heading ±10°, altitude ±200 ft (or 10% of target), speed ±5 units, and the ball's centre zone. In-tolerance readouts glow emerald; wind and turbulence keep pushing you out.

Scoring

Every 100 milliseconds the number of in-tolerance tasks is counted with partial credit: 4/4 tasks score full, 2/4 scores half. The score is that average over the run; a run lasts 4 minutes, and CHECK RIDE ramps EASY→MEDIUM→HARD across 5.

Difficulty

How difficulty scales

Difficulty works as a multiplier: on HARD the target drifts, wind and turbulence are 20% stronger, and the ball drifts harder and more often. Wind arrives as gusts — it can slam in mid-way through a calm stretch.

Because scoring gives partial credit, the strategy is clear: never abandon a task. Fix the largest deviation first, then return to a steady scan (Heading → Altitude → Speed → Ball). Locking onto one instrument bleeds the other three simultaneously.

How to train it

CadetPrep training approach

Build a fixed scan: Heading → Altitude → Speed → Ball → repeat. When the scan breaks, the ball is the first casualty.

Correct the largest deviation first; small deviations keep earning under partial credit anyway.

Make small, frequent corrections — a four-task oscillation is very expensive to recover from.

Anchor your hands: left on W/S + Z/X, right on the arrows. Swapping hands costs seconds.

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