Originally posted by gsbaker:
Mark,

Don't forget radios, even if you have to rig some temporary mic in the student's helmet.

As several have noted, having an instructor next to you in a HPDE is much more valuable than getting feedback only after a session at a school.

You can't be at every corner in every session of course, but it would be a huge improvement.

Thanks for the input, Gregg! Radios are on the list of equipment to buy and I think they'd be a real plus to my teaching, but I think the D/A would be more beneficial to the students right now.

As to riding next to the student, well I've never been comfortable as a passenger (serious white knuckles) and stopped instructing at HPDE events when my student backed his Corvette into a tire wall with me riding shotgun. That got my attention!

Mark C.

[This message has been edited by racer14itc (edited February 11, 2004).]