![]() ![]() Here’s an example of the sunrise and sunset times in Arjeplog, Sweden, where we recently returned from: This can affect the length of the ice driving season along with how far north you might need to travel. This to ensure you are not adversely affected by melting lake ice, especially if you have a plan to go towards the end of March, or April.Īs a guide, the season can start as early as December and runs from January to late March.ĭaylight can also be a consideration. The global subject of Climate Change means you’ll likely be aware the arctic is warming. Whatever your experience I hope you find my precis interesting. Share with us on social media as it’s good to compare. Been before? Yours will inevitably be different to mine. I’ll walk you through my first-hand experiences. When the cars you're renting are prepared for the task, the highest risk is driving to the Ice facility from your hotel. If driving vehicles unprepared for ice driving, try hard enough and you could remove a bumper or lose an exhaust silencer. The confines of the course are often soft snowbanks, ramped to encourage a soft landing. Advancing your car control skills is inevitable - an opportunity to master and muscle memorize the art of over grip limit driving and car control. Unless driving on specific rally or ice racing tyres, when compared to tarmac, loads are always low on the G scale. Speeds and lateral loads are determined by the translucent surface and the tyres we drive on. Gone are fellow road users, barriers, and gravel traps. Ice driving on frozen lakes is not reality – it is different. What I’ve just written sounds irresponsible, a complete contrast to how I view the world of driving as a standard. When can you throw caution to the wind and drive your socks off, with little worry of hurting yourself, your car or someone else's? Exploring new techniques up to and beyond the envelope of grip goes with the territory. Only one problem - I left Nissan! My remunerated point of access now behind me, how could I continue with my new found winter diversion? You guessed it … ICE DRIVING! I have always regarded driving on snow and ice as fun and challenging, being paid to do it at the same time - what better way to enjoy yourself? This hands-on knowledge has proved invaluable for delivering our Cold Climate preparation courses - part of our motor industry suite of training courses. Approaching weather and working as a team becomes a priority. My first experience was vehicle and tyre evaluation across several Nordic countries, many landscapes, and of course lots of snow and ice.Īdvanced driving techniques are put to the test, as is the need to plan trips with an eye on safety. Manufacturers have many reasons to test in the snow and ice.Ĭold Climate testing is the name given to the industry winter trips North. ![]() My first venture into driving in the frozen North was also in a professional capacity with Nissan. Ultimately, being trained to deliver driver training professionally to engineers. Working for a car manufacturer gave me a springboard into driving activities any petrolhead would relish: driving on the Nürburgring as a pool driver and testing and evaluating vehicles on proving grounds and highways throughout the UK and Europe. My life changed significantly when I went to work at Nissan. Defensive Driving - Car Control for the Road - Part 3.The Inner Secrets of Car Control on Circuit - Part 2.If you are interested in going Ice Driving, you might wonder which provider to choose, the tyres you might drive on, the car control techniques you will gain/enhance, or perhaps like me, look to learn the Scandinavian Flick (my favourite take away). I really use the cloud to keep my college folder backup and not have to worry about having to manually upload it, I don't really upload important files to the cloud just some files I don't care if someone sees since they're not really important.Following CAT's latest Ice Driving adventure in Sweden, we thought it was time to share our experiences & why Ice Driving is off the scale fun, whilst advancing your car control skills. I saw IceDrive and it's sounding really good but I want to know what everyone thinks about it and it's not block from the courthouse I'm interning and my work network, right now I'm using ProtonDrive to store my files but it's in beta and I'm having to use the web app. But, I have one issues I'm having with it my work and courthouse I'm interning as IT it's blocked from their network, I can use a VPN at work to access it but not at the courthouse I'm interning because I'm using their computers. I've started to use Mega as my cloud storage being that it's open source and encrypted. So I know about using Nextcloud will be better for a cloud service to keep my data private and locally store.
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