 Impala
Driving Tuition
What
does it Cost?
What
Does it Cost ?
Our Road and Off
Road Driver Training courses cost £380 if held
using your own car.
We have a Range
Rover avaliable for hire at £300 per day if you
do not have your own four wheel drive car.
The Accident Rehabilitation
Course costs £420
Types
of Driver Tuition Avaliable
There are many
disciplines involved in driving vehicles and we at Impala have Advanced
Driving Instructors available for training in the following;
1. Off Road Driving.
2. Advanced Road Driving in both four wheel drive and two wheel drive
cars.
3. Accident Rehabilitation.
Our Chief instructor, Neil Hopkinson
has more than twenty years of experience in teaching clients the art of
road and off road driving. His experience on track, road and off road
driving has been honed in an immense variety of vehicles from Ferrari
to Range Rover.
Neil is RosPa trained and also personally trains our staff to the highest level ensuring
that all of these important skills are passed onto you the customer in
the most professional manner.
Off Road
Driver Training
Neil Hopkinson and his team
of instructors have unsurpassed experience gained in the field. The skills
that they have in off road driving are continually being put to the test
in the trackless Kola Peninsular (some 200 miles above the Arctic Circle)
as well as in the immense Dunes of the Sahara Dessert and have become
second nature to them all.
The Impala team delight in introducing
you to the skills and excitement of off road driving.
We run both one and two day
courses. The one day course will introduce you to the basic skills of
off road driving whilst the two day course brings in the skills of recovery
and winching.
Training Course Outline
Each course is tailor made to
your exact requirements. Below is an example of the basic off road training
day.
1. Introduction to the theory
of off road driving over coffee. This session covers both the vehicle
as well as driving techniques and can be tailored to your type of off
road car.
2. We then move on to a nearby
off road site where you will be given a demonstration of the techniques
of off road driving sitting beside an instructor, who will talk you through
hill climbs, descents and failed hill climbs.
3. Now it is your turn to drive.
You will spend the rest of the day driving. The instructor will guide
you through the required skills and will ensure that you have grasped
them well. Towards the end of the day your instructor will set out a course
to test your ability.
4. During the de-brief over
coffee a programme can be developed to further improve your off road skills
which can include expedition preparation and advanced road driving.
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Advanced
Road Driving
The Official Driving Test for
most of us is where the training stops. Driving is a very skilled art
that should be continuously developed and too many people do not take
driving seriously enough, it becomes a distasteful necessity which leads
to carelessness and dangerous practices. Every driver has a responsibility
to drive with tolerance and understanding to other road users and it is
very important to make allowances for other drivers mistakes and skill
levels.
This course has been developed
for the driver who wants to learn new driving skills and extend the skills
learnt from the official driving test. You will find that your driving
becomes smoother and safer.
The course lasts a day and focuses
on all driving environments from motorways to countryside lanes.
Outline of Advanced Road Driving
1. We meet at a Hotel where
you will discuss the art of responsible road driving over coffee. This
gives us a chance to assess your attitude and driving situation knowledge
before moving onto the roads and you the time to get to know your instructor.
2. Normally we use your own
car but it is possible to hire one of Impala’s cars to assess your
road driving.
3. The day is split into one
hour slots of experience. You will drive a route that encompasses all
types of roads.
4. Your instructor assess your
driving ability in two ways, firstly as you drive they will ask relevant
questions concerning what is actually happening on the road as you drive
and at the end of each hour they will give a de-briefing on your ability
and suggested improvements.
5. The day ends back at the
Hotel over coffee where you will be given a written report outlining your
strengths and weaknesses. You will leave us a better driver and reap the
benefits every time you are behind the wheel of your car.
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Accident
Rehabilitation Course
There can be nothing more disconcerting
than wondering why you had that accident. Was it your fault? Even if it
was there is still a question nagging at the back of your mind that maybe
the other person involved may have contributed to its happening. You will
wonder that if you had had more knowledge, you may have seen the danger
in time to prevent the accident occurring at all.
We at Impala understand this
and we have developed a specialist course that revolves around the ADI
principle that “there are no accidents just crashes” and that
crashes are caused by a lack of understanding of the skills needed to
drive safely.
The aim of this course is to
give you the confidence and skills required to drive a car with greater
awareness of safety after your crash.
Neil has developed a course
that will enable you to achieve this aim.
1. Firstly he will discuss with
you how and why you crashed. This is important because you need to understand
how and why in order to move forwards with confidence.
2. Neil will drive you in the
same environment that occurred leading up to your crash, talking you through
the observations and actions needed to prevent such an occurrence.
3. You then drive your car over
a period of 2-3hrs through towns, along dual carriageways and country
lane’s.
4. Neil will then give you a
de-briefing looking at areas of strengths and weaknesses which you can
build on over the next two months.
5. The final part of your course
is a follow up drive some two months latter to ensure that your confidence
and ability have continued to improve.
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