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What did you do on your first driving lesson?

Hiya

I have my first driving lesson tommorw which is for 2 hours and i am just wondering what happened during your guys first lesson?

Reply 1

Emerald

1

sat in the car for half an hour being told various things about the gears and clutch and stuff and then spent the next half an hour driving. Well I say driving, in reality the lesson pretty much ended when I saw another car coming towards me and screamed and put both both my hands over my eyes. :redface:

You know that old adage, if I can't see it it can't see me or however it goes. Anyhoo, the instructor promptly swerved us into safety and braked and thus concluded my first lesson.

I'm sure yours will be much better.Good luck :smile:

Reply 2

JayEm

14

Yeah, basically you get told about what controls what and then for the remainder of the lesson, driving around quiet streets. Or may be just moving off and stopping depending on your instructor.

Reply 3

Leesimon2000

hi , are you learning in a manuel then , im learning in a automatic and we were driving straightaway and doing roundabouts aswell but obviously automatics are quicker to learn in

Reply 4

sophie_05

i was soo nervous my first lesson but went to a really quite industral place talked to for about half an hour about how cluth gears work and such although u never really take it in and went driving in straight lines pretty much it just remember to take ur time and have fun !

Reply 5

kookabura

13

Have a look at this thread i put some stuff in there about lessons i think.

Reply 6

Somebody

1

Well, I had an extremely slow first couple of lessons...

I think we went over the basics in the car (gears, clutch, brake, accelerator etc), then went on to moving off... after a little talk about mirrors ofcourse :p:

Anyways, I couldn't hold the bite too well, and rolled forward very slowly...
Then I got the bite several times and moved off.

A week later my instructor mentioned that since we hadn't moved off at all the week before, not to worry about the bite... even though I could now get it :p:

Basically, In about 6 lessons, I'd covered the same 3 things twice I think :p:

Though part of that was because I had no confidence! :p:

Reply 7

mooncheese89

10

^^^ Hehe that was the same for me, I really had trouble getting the bite and moving off without stalling...the first lesson was so exciting though it's probably something I will remember for a very long time :wink:

I personally only drove for about 1 minute down one road, turned left and went down another but it was mainly the 'cockpit drill' that you get taught during the first one.

Reply 8

Wedgie

1

drove the whole lesson did, moving off, stopping, gears, breaking, 3 point turn, reversing, parking (forward and reverse) and a little on a normal road.

theory wise did the cockpit drill and a little about how a car works

was ace

Reply 9

Olyy

My first lesson was 90minutes long,
My instructor picked me up at mine then drove to an road in an area just outside my village that is like a few office blocks, and a distribution center or two, and we parked at the side of one of the roads (it was a sunday, so it was basically deserted)
He then explained everything in the car to me, and explained (very basically) how the car works, explained the clutch/biting point etc.
Then i pulled away from the edge of the road, and drove down the road, then pulled in again, i did that a couple of times.
At the end of the lesson i was allowed to drive home aswell, he said he normally doesnt allow it, but it was a sunday morning, and i only lived down the road, so it wasnt as if there was any traffic

Reply 10

gracie88

14

I leant the 'cockpit drill' which took about half an hour, basically going through how you find the bite, mirrors, blind spots, how you brake etc. Then for the other half an hour i was driving round a little estate basically learning how to move off and stop.

Reply 11

kimble

1

Gosh reading all your posts makes me think maybe my instructer took it a bit fast. First lesson he drove me down the raod and stopped in a layby, got me to sit in the driver seat and said "thats the clutch, thats the break, thats the accelorator, here are the gears, 1 is slow, 5 is fast, to change gear you need to push the clutch down, now adjust the morriors and well go down the road" and that was my first time driving, I drove down a national speed limit road (going at about 30) though a set of traffic lights and then after about 30 mins I had to signal off, and turn around then pull out of a junction, then went back home.

Reply 12

XeonXR6

1

I already knew how to drive! lol, we went around some local streets near me. He still stopped half way through the lesson to teach me all the basics over again.

Reply 13

Pseudomuse

1

1st hour was about talking over things, second hour i was in a car park crawling along

Reply 14

Impossible princess

11

Ooh! I'm taking my first lesson soon, I already know how to pull off and I've gone up to third gear once! Haha, what do you think I'll do? Do they ask what you know already?

Gosh reading all your posts makes me think maybe my instructer took it a bit fast. First lesson he drove me down the raod and stopped in a layby, got me to sit in the driver seat and said "thats the clutch, thats the break, thats the accelorator, here are the gears, 1 is slow, 5 is fast, to change gear you need to push the clutch down, now adjust the morriors and well go down the road" and that was my first time driving, I drove down a national speed limit road (going at about 30) though a set of traffic lights and then after about 30 mins I had to signal off, and turn around then pull out of a junction, then went back home.

Hope I don't do that! :redface:

Reply 15

Vision

8

Yeah they'll usually ask how much you know. If you're starting from scratch then it'll be like the others said, spend half an hour doing the cockpit drill then practice moving and stopping but you do get some dodgy ones that just throw you into it.

Reply 16

ßlαcksωαn

17

I spent the whole time trying not to laugh at my driving instructor, **** he was funny looking :p:

Reply 17

Jordw

I drove around an industrial estate for an hour getting taught the controls and clutch control etc etc.

Reply 18

linka1

10

We had a chat for 5 minutes (lol) and then I drove in a circle for ages to try and get used to the steering...and THEN I learnt how to stop :biggrin:

I didn't stall because I was going too slow :smile:

Reply 19

Benn

Very first lesson - Just after i turned 17.

The instructor took me to a quiter road near me, and he parked up on a hill. We sat then for about three quarters of an hour talking about driving, and he was just asking questions and i was sat answering (most of them wrong!). Anyway, after the little 'chat' on safety etc, we set off.. ON A HILL!

My first time properly in a car, and i have to do a hill start.
Looking back, he was an oddball.

Anyway, rolled back down the hill abit (luckily there was nothing coming) and eventually set off. Kept going up and down this hilly road, turning round in a housing estate at the top. Well, we swapped over and he turned the car round.

He was keen not to let me drive from home or back, and then when he was turning the car around at one end, he decided to tell me "Your not meant to do this, so don't do what im about to do" and he goes and does a u-turn on a t junction on a main road.

So.. it was a weird first lesson.

What did you do on your first driving lesson?

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