Mick Farmer's Blog (my outlet to rant and rave)

First two helmets are bought from the general market place. The blue one is the most common one to be worn as it is the cheapest!

At OnCourse we teach a failed hill climb recovery technique that requires the driver to do a “key start” (this only relates to manual / stick shift vehicles). Over the years of instruction this technique is the only one we have confidence in. For instance, whilst doing training in DRC we had to use a route that included a very severe climb.

Over a year ago, we installed the PressurePro system on two of our training vehicles. It makes sense to have good safety measures for the vehicles that we use the most for our defensive and security driver training.

January the 16th 2009 will be a date remembered by all OnCourse staff. Two of the team lost their lives to a tragic Road Traffic Collision.

Convincing folk to wear seat belts has been a big issue for me over the last ten years of being a 4X4 driver trainer. Some people come up with the most ludicrous excuses not to wear them.

10 years ago we started providing driver training. At the time we were running a repair shop in Kampala. We noticed that some of our customers’ vehicles were getting damaged, some severely so, and had an increase in wear and tear due to improper driving/misunderstanding of 4wd vehicles.

We recently decided to fit synthetic winch rope to our winches. The decision was made from a purely safety stand point. Winch wire tends to get easily damaged especially when you’ve got a class full people who have never used a winch before. We were getting increasingly concerned of the consequences of one snapping.