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Driving School - the good old days

Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2022 7:37 pm
by crr003
This popped up on iPlayer - I hadn't seen the original:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00fkn ... des/player

Episodes four and five (and six) include some Hendon stuff. Just going to prove that people with moustaches do better than those without - the only student who struggled didn't have one: it's the science.

Also showing that Pull-Push wasn't the only way to steer.
And a double ADI lesson for only £25!

Re: Driving School - the good old days

Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2022 8:23 pm
by Strangely Brown
Ah the old Nokia ring tone...
Streetwise Driving School. Pamela Carr speaking. How may I help you.

It's like a really bad earworm.

Re: Driving School - the good old days

Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2022 11:50 pm
by waremark
Hendon relocated to Thames Valley!

I found it annoying to cope with it switching backwards and forwards between learners and the police course.

I was interested in the police using fixed grip steering for high speed through the cones. The instructors whole body had to move to let him achieve enough steering - I didn't see a strategy for coping if more steering was needed than fixed grip.

Used full offside before a left-hander where we couldn't see a vision benefit and the instructor comment was about the angle of steering needed.

I think the cradle car is history in this era of ESP etc - does anyone know otherwise?