Thread: Reckon I should have been able to get through and up this slippery bit of track?

Originally Posted by Slunnie

I've heard far more praises than that. The green skin training course is pretty full on, I'm pretty sure its quite a few weeks. Something I would have loved to have done, but am just too damn blue patch rather than green!

We get to see some pretty interesting stuff, Cultana is now used as a training point pre-‘Stan deployment.

Nice to drive along and see a nice tank, APCs etc all running around - and when it unleashes!

first up my 2c worth.

1. you weren't getting though that on what you had in the configuration you had, thats firm wet clay, you might as well have been driving on ice.

2. the gaywagons have wider bigger tyres to support the weight, empty the stock 4x4 wagon weighs in at the same kerb as Arkie.

3. the gaywagon has the ability to do well if the driver knows what they're doing and the limitations of the vehicles, pity the new driver training doesnt cover half the stuff it should, my gaywagon drivers course was a fraction over a week long and the maintainers course was 2 weeks from memory....

I shall never forget being told on my drivers course, by the instructor not to select the lower gear and use the engine braking to maintain vehicle speed coming down the gap. I just looked at the instructor and told him, over ride braked trailer, disc front drum rear on the vehicle with a GCM of better than 5.5T? Id rather you fail me when we survive the decent through the turns than posthumously get a pass.

Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

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I shall never forget being told on my drivers course, by the instructor not to select the lower gear and use the engine braking to maintain vehicle speed coming down the gap. I just looked at the instructor and told him, over ride braked trailer, disc front drum rear on the vehicle with a GCM of better than 5.5T? Id rather you fail me when we survive the decent through the turns than posthumously get a pass.

Lucky you didn’t change for 4th to 2nd without going through 3rd..........I got bumped to the ‘senior instructor’ for three days due to my indiscretion.....

Originally Posted by W&KO

Lucky you didn’t change for 4th to 2nd without going through 3rd..........I got bumped to the ‘senior instructor’ for three days due to my indiscretion.....

gay wagon wont do it, if it cant make the shift it just sticks you as low as it can untill you get the vehicle speed down enough to get a downshift unless you have the box in maintenance mode with the right computer plugged in for over-ride (IIRC though that only works if the Tcase is showing neutral)

4th to second is on the cards at some worryingly high speeds as it take the over run speed of the engine not the governed max RPM as the limit from memory, could be wrong.

Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

gay wagon wont do it, if it cant make the shift it just sticks you as low as it can untill you get the vehicle speed down enough to get a downshift unless you have the box in maintenance mode with the right computer plugged in for over-ride (IIRC though that only works if the Tcase is showing neutral)

4th to second is on the cards at some worryingly high speeds as it take the over run speed of the engine not the governed max RPM as the limit from memory, could be wrong.

Sorry should have thrown in I was in a GS, more making a point of the numpty instructors amd their take on how something should be driven.

I actually didn’t see a 110 for the rest of the course, pretty much spent the whole time in the acco’s MK5 or what ever they were called