Porker wrote:martine wrote:There's also the IAM Special Assessment which is not a test but is meant to use similar criteria to a police advanced assessment - although how you go about training for this is not clear...ask Mr. Toad!
I suspect that similar criteria are used but that the standards required are lower in as much as the speeds are typically rather less.
That would be interesting to have confirmed though. For example, would an IAM SA candidate who achieves a 90% pass on the exam be demonstrating the same level of roadcraft, commentary, finesse and so on as someone who passes a Police Advanced Course with the same mark?Even then I expect it's something of a moot point, since demonstrating skills at higher speeds would I presume be proportionately much more difficult than doing so within the speed limits.
regards
P.
Re the above comments.
I think it's fair to say that the SA marks and the police advanced marks are not comparable. For a police driver to get a mark of 90% or above on an advanced course is, in my experience, VERY rare.
It wouldn't surprise me though if a SA candidate who got a 90% mark would do well on a police standard course, as in the Roadcraft video.
To give you some idea about the differences, on my police advanced course I was marked in the following;
Written test on Roadcraft, Highway Code and internal police procedures.
Slalom reversing and parking tests including reversing into a 'garage' and parallel parking.
Skid pan tests involving both front and rear wheel drive cars.
Blue light run using fully marked patrol car.
High speed drive from A to B using an unmarked automatic car.
Pursuit test in a manual car involving following 'pursuing' an instructor.
These tests were at the end of weeks of instruction using various types of cars and we were rarely in the same car twice. My course also involved familiarisation drives in HGVs and PSVs and an introduction to Anti Hijack driving.
Does this sound like an IAM SA?
Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 6:59 pm