Private Practice
A Good Way To Gain Experience
Private practice is a good way of building upon the experience that a learner driver picks up during professional lessons with an ADI. The more private practice that a learner has, the more able a driver they should become.
However, private practice should be co-ordinated with the learner's professional lessons (they are not a replacement for lessons). Talk with the learner's instructor regularly to make sure the practice and the lessons are co-ordinated.
You should aim to take the learner out for one private practice lesson for every professional lesson, and plan your private practice drives in advance.
By taking a structured approach to frequent private practice, to build up the learner driver's experience, you can reduce the risk that they will be involved in an accident once they are able to drive unsupervised.
This section tells you how you can get the best from your time with a learner driver, what records to keep, things you should and shouldn't do, and how to co-ordinate your private practice with your ADI.
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