Driving Lesson - Moving Off
Driving Lesson - Moving Off
POM Routine
Prepare
- Clutch down
- Select 1st gear
- Set the gas
- Clutch up slowly to biting point
- Keep both feet steady
Observe
- Quickly and effectively
- Six points check
- Left blind spot
- Left door mirror
- Windscreen Centre mirror
- Ahead
- Right door mirror
- Right blind spot
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Signal only if necessary
If the traffic is queuing and almost at a standstill then you may need to signal as a request to let you join the traffic.
Signal to help out pedestrians.
- If for some reason you have to wait, you must do six point check again
Move
- Release handbrake
- Clutch up slowly
- Increase gas slightly
- Steer to normal driving position
- Centre of lane
- Check centre and right mirror
- Increase gas
No delay between observing and moving

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