Vehicle Dynamics: Applying the Principles of Physics to Your Principal's Safety and Comfort
Course Overview
Course Content
Instructor
Course Overview
COURSE DESCRIPTION
BEFORE YOU GO ANYWHERE, MAKE SURE YOU UNDERSTAND VEHICLE DYNAMICS & THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE DRIVER AND THE VEHICLE
Executive security drivers must master many skills to keep their principals safe and satisfied. But everything depends on a solid understanding of vehicle dynamics and what this means to security driving.
This course is part of our series for executive security drivers: professionals who drive with executive protection principals.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
- The “driving equation”, knowing when speed is a friend or a foe, and why driving systems fail
- Optimal driving positions
- Impact dynamics, the true function of the seatbelt, and the importance of “getting off the X” and thinking in feet per second rather than miles per hour
- The relationships between accelerating, braking and turning – and the importance lateral of acceleration
Course Content
- Introduction to the Course (1:06)
- Welcome to the course (2:30)
- Chauffeur vs Security Driver (2:20)
- Vehicle Checks (4:29)
- Outside Vehicle Walk Around (7:04)
- Inside the Vehicle (9:11)
- Tire Mechanics by Pablo Ortiz-Monasterio from AS3 (30:10)
- Case Story: Balancing Security and Service
- Vehicle Preparation (10:19)
- COVID-19 Driver and Vehicle Safety Protocols
- Vehicle Gear (8:11)
- Vehicle Preparation Demonstration (37:18)
- Considerations for Route Planning (4:23)
- Luggage (7:07)
- Guest video with Hutch (24:45)
- Case Story: Dealing With Luggage
- Chauffeur Etiquette (10:16)
- Case Story: Checklists for Security and Service
- Course Wrap-up (1:02)
- Checklists and Considerations
- Course Survey / Certificate Of Completion
- Certificate Of Graduation
Instructor
One of the leading voices for the modernization and development of the executive protection industry, with over 16 years of international experience in close protection, program management, procurement, and training operations. Aaron’s exceptional list of clients includes Fortune 500 corporations, A-List celebrities, ultra-high-net-worth families and individuals, and even the intercontinental transport of equestrian horses. During the past seven years, Aaron has created and implemented over 500 private-sector training programs worldwide.
He currently supports critical executive protection operations and training missions around the globe, helping to ensure the ongoing success of EP teams which execute over 1,600 unique missions in 110 countries every year. As a senior manager with the Allied Universal Executive Protection and Intelligence Services Academy, Aaron delivers advanced training and operational auditing to executive protection, residential protection, emergency response, travel logistics, and secure transport teams. Additionally, Aaron interfaces directly with high-level clients and other external organizations to deliver highly specialized, industry-leading training and operations support programs throughout the U.S. and abroad.
He is a founding member of the AS Solution Academy, and a driving force in it’s ascendancy as one of the world’s leading executive protection training providers. Within just three years of its inception, the Academy team successfully developed industry-leading curricula for dozens of new programs and had delivered over 300 courses to more than 2,300 protection professionals around the globe. Currently, Aaron’s team presents over 150 real-world courses every year.
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