Thread: Anyone done a "Land Rover Experience Day"?

Hi Ian,
I think that you'll find that the LROC Sydney trainers are now trained on D3s.

Best Wishes,
Peter

Originally Posted by Ian Petersen

SNIP
these guys are the only Land Rover trained instructors in Australia
SNIP

D3 V8 HSE

Originally Posted by Bushwanderer

Hi Ian,
I think that you'll find that the LROC Sydney trainers are now trained on D3s.

Best Wishes,
Peter

As are the new guys that Trivett are using I think they are called Drive4.

You may wish to make a distinction between:

- actually qualified as a Land Rover instructor
- attended an official Land Rover training course
- attended some other training course using a Land Rover

that said, the quality of the training is what counts irrespective of qualifications.

AFAIK there are 4 people in Australia who are LR-qualified instructors.

Hi rmp,
Perhaps you are making too fine a distinction for me.

I do know, however, that the LROCS trainers have "Train the trainers" qualifications and were trained by LRA.

HTH,
Peter

Hi AnD3rew,

I have done a bit of digging around, and talked to a few people I know, and it RMP is correct. In September 2008, a Lead Instructor was flown to Sydney from Land Rover Experience at Eastnor. He conducted training for 4 people. Two were John and Julie from Getabout Training Services and two were from Land Rover Australia. These are the only 4 people in Australia who have been trained to instructor and/or Senior instructor level. I know there are others who claim to be Land Rover trained, but they have only attended the level 1 or level 2 course in the UK, which are the courses normally delivered to the general public.

I think you will find the LROC Sydney trainers were trained on the D3's by The guys at Getabout.

Keep the shiny side up.

Correct on all fronts Ian.

Sorry Ian,
Are you saying that the instructors who trained the LROC Sydney trainers were incompetent (whoever they were)? I look forward to your response.

Best Wishes,
Peter

I don't think anyone is commenting on the competence or otherwise of the various trainers in Australia. It's simply being pointed out that there are only 4 people in Australia officially trained by Land Rover to the standards required by Land Rover Experience (the official off-road Land Rover trainers from UK) for the purposes of training others.

This is not the same as training people to use the products, and as RMP pointed out earlier, it doesn't mean that these 4 are any better than anyone else, just that LR have presented them with a certificate that says they've met a particular standard. There are many other certifying bodies that may have trainers equally (or better) trained that have decided to specialise in the new Land Rover products.

Cheers,

Gordon