ABSOLUTE NEWBIE Morning Desert Drive - Al Qudra Dubai - 19 Feb 2021

[Dwain Fernandes]

Excellent experience !!! Thanks 

[Daniel Rodas]

Indeed! Thanks for the guidance guys. Will see you soon.

[prajupramod]

Great experience and guidance - See you all soon!

[Srikumar]

@I.M.Shousha إسلام أبوشوشة @danferrub @Cale Hugill @Kassem Zaiter @Daniel Rodas@Vivi Sebastian @Azfar Aboobakar

@prajupramod@Ishraque Ahammed@Fabien Monleau @Dwain Fernandes

Trip Report

It was nice to see everyone reach the meeting point on time with a lot of enthusiasm. After a rather quick deflation and getting the cars ready we started the briefing over the radio. 

We started of on some nice easy long range dunes which surprisingly had very little of cross tracks. Everyone managed really well on some broad ridge riding, small U turns, etc. We then started moving to some of the shorter range dunes to cross over to the other side, and that when the drive started to through some nice challenges. A couple of simple but time consuming recoveries were needed for some of the cars. But the rest of the convoy did an amazing job of following the tracks which I was quite wonderful to see.

Well done everyone, as the track was definitely a bit challenging and many of you were driving on the sand for the very first time.

A big shout of thanks to @Tamas Hoffmann and @Nabil Bishara for supporting the drive in all possible manners. Much appreciated guys.

 

Moving forward you all will be joining the Newbie drives and not an Absolute Newbie drive. Drives are announced every Sunday at 11 am, and they go live on Sunday at 7:10 pm. Due to the high demand, these drives get full in about 10 minutes, so please be online at 7 pm to book your spot. If you miss a spot, put your name on the waitlist asap. Generally, by Thursday with dropouts everyone does get a spot if they have waitlisted. 

 

For the next drives, please bring along a deflator, pressure gauge, flag and radio as a minimum. 

Learn to deflate your tires and checking them precisely

Learn to fix a flag on your car

Learn to program and fully charge your radio

 

Also like I mentioned during the debriefing, join the Carnity Whatsapp Drive Notification to get the latest updates on the drives, so that you can RSVP on time for the next weekend's drive.

Please have a look at below topic which describes the tools needed for every level. There is a separate tutorial inside which explains which radio we recommend and how to program them: (Please do not buy the Baofeng 888S spare radio we gave you, as these cannot be programmed without a special cable and software).

 

Please have a look at below grading structure that explains various off-road levels:

 

 

 

[Kassem Zaiter]

@Srikumar, hey how are you, it was a pleasure to meet you and learn from you next week, I have a question in regards to the shovel, there is D shaped shovels and there is T shape, whats the difference for both and is it fine to get D shape too.

Thanks

[Gaurav]

1 hour ago, Kassem Zaiter said:

@Srikumar, hey how are you, it was a pleasure to meet you and learn from you next week, I have a question in regards to the shovel, there is D shaped shovels and there is T shape, whats the difference for both and is it fine to get D shape too.

Thanks

D Shape is even better to reach tight spots.

[Kassem Zaiter]

Thank you @Gaurav