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Originally Posted by whaap
Saying it took a student about 10 hours to fly on her own isn't saying much about the student or the instructor. All that comment does is put some unnecessary fear in the op. The average person needs no where near 10 hours to learn the basics of a manual transmission unless perhaps 9 of those hours are in a class room.
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Thanks for your opinion....but if more people had proper training with a qualified instructor don't you think the end result is a much safer and confident driver on "public" roads?
As for "unnecessary fear". It takes as long as it takes for the student to grasp the concepts. As he stated, the OP is a "16" y/o.
In the OP's home province of British Columbia (and the rest of Canada for that matter) the gold standard for driver training is "Young Drivers of Canada", and that program runs 20 hrs of classroom and 12 hours of in car training.
Ask yourself...when was the last time you actually picked up a CURRENT "drivers handbook" or took some driver training of any kind?
Your post only negatively reinforces that adage of "i've been driving for X number of years and i know exactly what i'm doing".
Traffic laws change from province to province (and state to state) and they are continually modifed in any given year.
Thanks again, but your comment is less than credible.