ROG:
cgscott:
Does sticking it in cruise control and sticking feet on dash count as a bad habit. I often take my jumper of whilst driving if im too hot.Also steer with my knees when im stretching after driving a 10 hour straight run.
I would class myself as an advanced driver
If you had to stop suddenly could you do it just as quickly as having your foot poised near the brake pedal
No but he’s probably one of these drivers that thinks nothing has ever gone wrong before so nothing ever will.
ROG:
cgscott:
Does sticking it in cruise control and sticking feet on dash count as a bad habit. I often take my jumper of whilst driving if im too hot.Also steer with my knees when im stretching after driving a 10 hour straight run.
I would class myself as an advanced driver
If you had to stop suddenly could you do it just as quickly as having your foot poised near the brake pedal
Tell me what could go wrong at 3 in the morning heading down the m6 miles apart from the lorry in front?
Im not saying i cruise control with feet on dash around town. Oh and yes i have had accidents. No one is perfect. Nothing major just reversing into a parked vehicle. Lifting a vehicle of the ground with tailswing on class 2. Car was parked in double yellow access.
cgscott:
Tell me what could go wrong at 3 in the morning heading down the m6 miles apart from the lorry in front?
Blowout sending you through the barrier into oncoming vehicles …
cgscott:
Does sticking it in cruise control and sticking feet on dash count as a bad habit. I often take my jumper of whilst driving if im too hot.Also steer with my knees when im stretching after driving a 10 hour straight run.
Oh ffs !!.. Don’t tell Jakey this PLEEEASE. 
youtu.be/umDr0mPuyQc
alamcculloch:
The overtaking vessel has the responsibility of keeping clear. The vessel being overtaken must maintain course and speed.
Not at all, sometimes it pays for the vessel being overtaken to slow down because if not in some cases they can be drawn along at the same speed as the vessel that is overtaking them, it’s called interaction and can be used to your advantage sometimes if it allows you to get somewhere quicker to get ashore to the pub but you need to be very careful as ‘interaction’ draws you towards the overtaking vessel … I’ve got my institute of advanced boat driver certificate 
dieseldog999:
just out of interest.
what do ships do when overtaking?.
cue the ex ship engineers in an orderly queue please?
Be better off asking someone on the bridge instead of a ‘gingerbeer’ stuck down in the e/r …
raymundo:
I’ve got my institute of advanced boat driver certificate
Ah, so then you have a superior spidey sense of imminent dangers and hazards coupled with cheaper canoe insurance and the ability to voice your every observation and attention in as nasally and condescending voice as possible?
Or is it just a “watered” down version of the DCPC?
Reef:
raymundo:
I’ve got my institute of advanced boat driver certificateOr is it just a “watered” down version of the DCPC?
Bit more expensive than the DCPC plus a bit more involved … about £5 thou in total taking into account course fees and accommodation … 
and refresher coursers every five years but they are a wee bit cheaper, but the bar prices keep rising !!
cgscott:
Does sticking it in cruise control and sticking feet on dash count as a bad habit. I often take my jumper of whilst driving if im too hot.Also steer with my knees when im stretching after driving a 10 hour straight run.
I would class myself as an advanced driver
I worked with a chap back in 2002/3 who did something similar, he would stick the cruise control on and then lift himself up and sit cross legged on his feet.
One sunny Thursday morning the day before Easter bank holiday Friday he was doing just this while driving homeward on the south M5 when he struck a camper van on the hard shoulder with his nearside mirrors.
What happened was that he was following another truck way too close and was being buffeted by the truck in front, he was wandering left and right almost managing to stay in his lane, but not quite. He wandered left at the wrong time and struck a camper van in the hard shoulder with his mirrors which came in the passenger window, the shock of this caused him to react and swerve to the right. As his feet were under his arse he had no control of the pedals and the truck was still on cruise control so still at full speed he veered across all 3 lanes, the centre barrier and then across the north bound side and ended up in a ditch on the other side. I can’t remember exactly but it was either 2 or 3 people died on the north bound carriageway on his way across it.
He thought of himself as an advanced professional driver.
It doesn’t matter how good or bad a driver you are, you have to be in a position to control the vehicle no matter what happens and how unexpected it is.
Feet on dash board will cause a delay to being able to control the pedals in an emergency, just like sitting in your feet.
Something unexpected can happen at any time, even at 3am with the next truck 3 miles ahead.
My uncle was supergluing something as he was driving down the road on cruise, unbeknown to him, he had spilled a big blob onto his rubber floor mat and then put his unoccupied right foot on it, he had a bit of a panic trying to brake as he came down a slip road. Luckily he had the presence of mind to jam em on with his left foot and disaster was averted, so it had a happy and somewhat amusing end, but it could’ve been a lot worse.
The same could happen with your feet up on the dash, easy enough to put it up there and take it down under normal circumstances, but in an extreme pressure situation it would be so easy to get it stuck and unable to hit the anchors and that would be catastrophic. Anybody that drives in this manner should get a driving without due care or whatever they call it now penalty, it’s just an accident waiting to happen.
