Half–Day Advanced Driving and Car Control Course

Allocated Time: 4–Hours 1:1
Content: On–Road Advanced Driver Training, Including 1–Hour Car Control Programme
Vehicle: Customer Supplied Car

Introduction

The Half–Day Advanced Driving and Car Control Course is an 4–hour on–road driver training programme that incorporates a 1–hour car control session at an approved and risk assessed off–road driving site.

The purpose is to provide the Ride Drive customer with an insight onto the types of skills that can be developed for greater road safety through more effective road driving methods. Having the opportunity to learn of the factors which affect the stability of the car raises awareness and understanding of those circumstances that are likely to induce a loss of control situation.

Being available in only a handful of locations within the UK, this half–day option has very limited availability. This is due to the lack of off–road driving facilities. To find out if this driving course can be delivered in your area, please consult the map below.

Format of the Course If you are within reach of one of our off–road driving venues the Half–Day Advanced Driving and Car Control Course begins from your home area at a meeting point arranged with your trainer. You will already have discussed the aims and objectives of the day with your trainer, so by the time you meet, he⁄she will already have put together the structure of an action plan and picked out some appropriate roads for you to drive upon. After a short safety briefing, you will be asked to follow a route as you are given advice and guidance as you drive through each environment, identifying features and circumstances that might offer actual or potential danger. You will be able to practice a variety of advanced techniques, always being one step ahead of what is happening around you. The points are always put across in a pleasant manner, helping to build your confidence, as well as your ability, in simple and easy to follow stages.
		The Half–Day Advanced Driving and Car Control Course is available in many regions of the UK, including London, Maidenhead, Windsor, York, Northampton, Guidlford and Woking. Click on the map above for full list of available start points.

For every suggestion there is a reason given, which helps you to see the logic in all that is being asked of you. Your trainer will help you to understand how maximum control is maintained through the smooth and well–timed operation of the driving controls. These functions are completed by working in harmony with the vehicle and by feeling it along the road, as opposed to the more dispassionate process of operating a piece of machinery.

You don’t have to spend the full 4–hours driving, as there will be opportunity for you to stop, perhaps for a coffee, whist chatting about the theory of the techniques you have begun to use. Seeing table coasters used to assimilate vehicles going through various manoeuvres on a café table will live long in the memory.

The Car Control Session At some point during the day you arrive at the allocated off road driving venue at which you are carry out the car control routines. The site will usually take the form of a disused airfield that provides a large expanse of open space and which is not accessible to members of the general public. We avoid the use of motorsport track venues, as the risk of car damage tends to be too high and there can be issues with motor insurance cover. You begin the car control session with a short safety briefing, which includes a familiarisation tour of the facility to risk assess the driving environment. A programme of activities then begins and you will note how these exercises build from relatively simple manoeuvres to more technical applications of the car. The purpose of the car control activities will be to help you develop an understanding of the effects you have upon your car by the manner in which you operate the driving controls. This is where you learn to feel the car as you drive, as any electronic driver safety aids are switched off.
							Please note, this driving programme does not involve a track day, participation in a motorsport event, time trial, speed driving activity or any form of competitive driving. Off road manoeuvring and car control sessions are completed at risk assessed venues that are closed to the general public, so as to remove the activities from the unpredictibility of a public road environment. Standard road speeds will not be exceeded.

We talk about the drive configuration, whether it be front–wheel drive, rear–wheel drive, or four–wheel drive, and how this affects the behaviour of the car.

The car control activities are structured so as to be educational without harming your car. Always remember, you are captain of your own ship and therefore have the last word on whether you complete any suggested manoeuvre.

Who Will be Suited to This Driving Course?

The Half–Day Advanced Driving and Car Control Course is best suited to those who are more technically minded and want to get a taste if how they can learn to understand mechanics of what the car is doing beneath them. It can also serve as a great confidence booster for anyone who feels a little intimidated by their car.

If you are interested in learning about the forces acting on a car when you and brake and steer, for example, and why that is not a good combination, this driving course will provide much benefit to you. If this is your first Ride Drive advanced driving experience there is no doubt you will be returning to this website as you consider what other options are available.

Half–Day or Full–Day? That is the Question

This question may have already been answered for you, due to the small number of locations in which the half–day is available. However, if you do have a choice, that is a nice situation to be in.

It has to be said, the amount of material covered within any training programme will always be limited by the amount of time allocated to its delivery. It must therefore be appreciated that not everything can be covered in one half–day. It is not meant to be either, as this course is an introduction to a safer and better–structured road driving system. It also gives you an insight into the more technical aspects of car control.

However, you have to realise that having completed the first half–day, you will come back for the second one anyway. Nearly everyone does. It’s just one of those things of once you start on what turns out to be an adventure, you will find it difficult working out where you should stop.

Discount Car Insurance Scheme

The Ride Drive⁄Adrian Flux Special Car Insurance Discount Scheme does not apply to this driving course option.

Suggested Follow–On Courses
Half–Day Advanced Driving Course to make up to the Full Day Driving With Car Control (P⁄Code S03PM–SC)
Full–Day Advanced Driving & Skid Pan Course (Product Code Y03PM–SC)
Level–2 NQF Accredited Driving Course (Product Code T02CN–SC)

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Saturday, 29-Jan-2011

Available throughout the UK, including
London, Maidenhead, Windsor, York, Northampton, Guidlford and Woking

Half–Day Advanced Driving and Car Control Course