AAMI Driving Course??

**beefy** · 30-10-2006, 09:18 PM

Hey guys,
Im going down to brizzie on one of these dates:

2/12
3/12
9/12

to do a free defencive driving course, which is provided free for anyone who has (or parents have) AAMI comprehencive car insurance.

so yeh, it would be cool to get some guys down there for a bit of fun.

I will confirm my exact dates once my request is processed by AAMI.

**thechuckster** · 30-10-2006, 10:37 PM

what is the venue for this 'training' ?

**beefy** · 31-10-2006, 08:59 AM

Tafe in Eagle Farm

**thechuckster** · 31-10-2006, 11:23 AM

that's basically the front carpark at the TAFE site

**beefy** · 31-10-2006, 09:15 PM

damnit, all well, ill give it a chop anyways.
Its BYO car too, so i assume you will be driving somewhere.

**RONA** · 31-10-2006, 09:17 PM

Nope BYO car means you are using your car in the TAFE carpark doing the exercises lol

**Hash_ra23** · 31-10-2006, 09:27 PM

i've done this course.
its really quite boring. half the day is just talking about the importance of following distance, and not speeding. They dont tell you on how to improve ur technical driving. just the importance of safe following distance and keeping under the speedlimit. The practical exercises are just there for u to experience the bad effects of speeding and keeping a short following distance.

**thechuckster** · 01-11-2006, 12:19 PM

now if they were holding it at Mt Cotton or Roadcraft up at Gympie .. then you'd get a crowd

**adamaw11** · 02-11-2006, 04:51 PM

I've also done this, was still on my Ps and hadn't done any kind of fun driving day before. I enjoyed it a fair bit. I got the shortest breaking distance in my car!

(they measure it from 40ks or something) There is a bit of a slalom test too IIRC.

edit: Actually, I thought there were a few vague driving tips for slaloms or cornering, like looking further ahead round the corner or something, I thought it seemed to help also, whatever it was.