MRAP Driver's Safety Course - 2 Days
Introduction: This two-day US Training Center course is available to US military personnel and offers standardized driver instruction and operating experience common to all MRAP style vehicles. The curriculum focuses on operability, vehicle capabilities and limitations, common vehicle characteristics, and safety issues. This is not a course intended to teach tactics or provide tactical driving, nor does it teach any specific vehicle. The course will address the root causes of most MRAP accidents, roll-overs, speed, and braking. It will also address climbing, descending, and controlling the vehicle in steep angles of attack.
Aim: Develop the basic skills to safely an MRAP-style vehicle
Topics:
- Driving Emergency Response (sedans)
- Straight Line and Turning and Braking
- Multiple Avoidance Driving
- Instinctive Response (with surprise)
- Skid Control on Skid Pad
- Off Road Recovery
- City streets and heavy traffic driving
- Driving in close proximity and constant movement
- Driving Beyond Normal Limits
- Minimum visual distance considerations
- Whole Road Concepts
- Restricted Lane Concepts
- Cornering Techniques
- Turning and Braking entering the corner
- Getting the vehicle pointed and balanced
- Exiting the corner under control
- High Center of Gravity Vehicle Operations (SUVs)
- Driving Emergency Response
- Managing Steep Angles of Attack
- Climbing and Descending
- High speed driving techniques
- Operator Introduction to MRAP
- Drive Train Specifics:
- Transmission
- Transfer Case
- Differentials
- Geared Hub Assemblies
- Inflation System (CTIS)
- Runflat
- MRAP Operations on Hard Surface
- Driving Emergency Response
- Straight Line and Turning and Braking
- Managing Steep Angles of Attack
- Climbing and Descending
- Emergency vehicle egress
Ammunition Requirements: None
Gear: Students are strongly recommended to bring full deployment gear (except weapons) to receive maximum benefit from the course.
Method: This course is a combination of classroom presentation (10%) and practical exercises (90%) using USTC training vehicles on USTC driving tracks and other USTC facilities
Skill Prerequisites: This course is available to U.S. Military personnel and select U.S. Law Enforcement Agency personnel.
Number of attendees: three to twelve students
Duration: Two Days
Course Cost: Course cost will vary based on students count and includes lunch each training day. Please contact your USTC Sales Coordinator for full pricing information and on-site lodging at the North Carolina campus.
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