Training "can be dangerous"

Originally Posted by Mrs DJ Fridge

IMHO all drivers should have to learn to ride a push bike, ride a motorbike, drive a car and an HGV, if they had experience in all those disciplines they would be more aware and therefore hopefully better drivers. Both the registered pilots I know and the most reckless car drivers I know, they both believe that they are superior drivers because they can fly. I can not however judge all pilots by the two I know.

Are they power pilots?

Originally Posted by socommk23

Are they power pilots?

No, idiots.

Lol.

I've always thought of training as giving you an external perspective (same as sports coaching) but it is up to you to feel and practice what is right/works for you. One thing training does do is give you situations to think on ahead of time, and give make the little differences natural allowing you to react to the unusual as your brain is not filled with "brake point, now ar5e cheek off the seat, now left of centre line, lean in, apex, throttle, etc..."

It also means that in the split second when you know the car hasn't seen you and is pulling out you know instinctively that your options are stand on the brakes, swerve round, throttle on straight through and you can then use the split second to decide which to do, not think what can you do.

On the experience note, and this might be more for the younger looking amongst us who commute through a city, but how often do you hear "I know what I'm doing, I've been driving for 20 years" when they are blatantly and fully in the wrong.