Customer Reviews

Military Flight Aptitude Tests (CliffsTestPrep)

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Lots of typo, lots of wrong answers. If you check the back of the answer sheet, it might say the answer is C. But when you look at the explaination, it refers to B. Dont buy this book if you wanna become an officer.

This is one of the most error-ridden prep books I've ever seen. The editors must not have been getting paid well for this one.

There's at least one error on every page; and not just misspellings or whatnot, I found several instances where identical problems had different answers, and occasionally two identical answers were given for the same problem.

Made everything much more complicated than it needed to be.

Cliff notes should be ashamed. Mistakes in one of their literature guides for someones book report is one thing. Mistakes in this test prep where someones career and ultimately their lifes goals are on the line, unexceptable!

How a book gets published that blatantly screws up basic Newtonian physics I will never understand. If I had anything to do with the publication of this book I would be ashamed. The worst part is that people who read this book might be relying on it to pass one of the service flight exams, and it is so error ridden and filled with flat out wrong methods of problem solving(esp with kinematics) that it will actually hurt their ability to perform on the exam.

Please do not buy this book. Get the Arco one.

I am in the process of studying for the AFQOT. I bought this book instead of the other test-prep books because it was the most challenging (the other books are apparently much easier than the actual test). All in all, there doesn't appear to be any single good book for the AFOQT. This book has plenty of typos, poor or no explanations, and oddly worded questions. I am not even sure if the author took any officer candidate tests himself. Buy this book if you want practice with electrical mazes, spatial apperception, etc. Don't buy it if you are trying to learn something new to you.

If you are studying for the AFAST DO NOT use this book. The instrument and complex movement practice sections contain numerous grievous errors. The AFAST does not contain high level math test like this book indicates, but instead mechanical concepts. It is amazing that this book was published in this apparently unedited and misinformed state. The book the Army gave me to review 15 minutes prior to testing was way better. No one in my family will every buy a cliffs test prep book again for any reason. If someone fails the test because of this crappy book I hope they sue so it gets pulled from the shelves and other don't fall victim.

There are so many errors in this book. Its shameful. If you're a beginner trying to get an understanding of aircraft maneuvers based on gauges, dont bother with this one. It'll have you scratching your head!

I can't believe the poor job of technical editing in this book. I am a pilot and all of the Flight errors in this book will confuse you if you don't already know how to fly

The practice test bared no similarity to the actual AFAST:
1) On mechanical section, there are no numbers on real AFAST
2) The answers on the cyclic section are wrong
3) The helicopter knowledge section was much easier (and more fundamental) on the actual AFAST

It's a waste of money and time.

In preparation for the Army AFAST test I bought this book and two other study guides - I'm so glad I got the other study guides because the CliffsTestPrep is FILLED with errors. In going through one section of a sample test there were two questions with more then one possible answer (i.e. answer A was identical to answer C), and one question with NO correct answer. These types of errors are filled throughout the book; whoever was the editor on this project did a horrible job!