21/09/2021
So true!
When a pupil is struggling with a subject in school, very often the parents/guardians will pay for extra tuition with a tutor!
For whatever reason the pupil is either not getting the gist of the subject, maybe the subject doesn't come easy to them, who knows why, that's just the way it is!
Driving is the same, it takes different people a different length of time to drive a car, so it's not only irrelevant it's also a pointless exercise saying "cousin Freddy passed in 10 or 15 hours".
Whether they did or didn't pass in 10 or 15 hours is totally irrelevant, Freddy isn't you, just like the person getting extra tuition isn't everybody else!
When we talk about how long it's going to take to learn to drive, what we are really talking about is how much is it going to cost!
Probably less than the first years insurance, definitely less than the cost of a funeral, the lessons won't take as long as it will take people to mourn your loss or the loss of others, if you get killed or kill others in a car!
So how long will it take you? I don't know, I will do my best to teach you the syllabus as quickly as I can, I will match the speed of teaching to the speed you learn, that's the best I can do!
With regards "I just want to have a go!", you can, but not in my car, it's my livelihood, I have a responsibility to make sure my other pupils have a car to learn in and do their tests in!
Lastly, I have a duty of care and responsibility to you, other road users and also the examiners!
Gaining an ADI badge is not cheap, it doesn't come without study, cost or commitment or indeed responsibility, so there is my answer, who you want to learn with is your choice, how much you want to pay is your choice but please don't expect an instructor to cut corners, we trained hard for our badge and we are rather proud of it, what we don't want is a phone call telling us that any of you have been injured or killed!