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Thanks to everyone joined drive today. Nice and smooth experiens. Maybe this was not fastest drive, but very technical. Thanks to our leads and supports @Chaitanya D, @Looper, @DP1011 , and sorry if missed someone. Nice recovering experiens, and Camel visitors.

What a splendid morning !! Seeing a new lead at work is always a pleasure, and in the case of Davie, that I had the pleasure of seeing in his early days in the club, to the point where he is now, gives an enormous amount of satisfaction that as a club we are able to create a fertile breeding ground for off-road explorers to go through the ranks and reach the stage where they can lead a drive effortlessly and manage his convoy and the challenges with a smile. As a second lead, which means polishing the tracks a bit of the lead in front, I actually had little work to do, and got to enjoy the beautiful lines Davie took and could take some scenic sights in as well. I love driving in this area as it really gives us a "out of the city" feeling, and throws us back to simpler times. After finding an underpass through the Etihad rail (modern meets old in this area), we made our way towards the Northern Falaj Al Mualla watch tower. After doing some research this morning I came to know there are only 3 in total, and they were used to guard and protect the oasis (water channel, or "Falaj"). As I mentioned in the briefing, I encourage all of you to explore the entire UAE and especially areas like this, as we might take them for granted now but in perhaps 15-20 years from now they might fall victim to the fast-progressing modernization. The Etihad rail crossing through it is one of the first signs. The entire convoy drove superb. I felt the soft sand with my heavy boat and was concerned about the other behind me, but you all pushed your way through the soft sand, tricky spots, and steep declines. @Patrick @Ahmed Wagdy @Misha Puskar @Stan @Frans M @Zubair and @premindra rajaram. Great to see you in the sand again and thank for the help @Mehmet Volga ! @premindra rajaram you might have turned your Xterra into a green ecological version, but nevertheless fantastic job as a sweep ! See you all soon in the sands again !

What an unusual drive experience today with random stuck people 🙉. Thank you, @Chaitanya D, for leading us through the technical dunes today 🙌, I really enjoyed it. All these random desert adventures are great learnings. Today's rescue reminded me how important it is to have extra water and snacks for unpredictable events. You really never know how long you will be out there 🙂. Thanks to all on this drive for a beautiful Sunday morning time 🧡

Thank you @Pavel Pashkovskiy for the coffee and good coordination when we helped to recover another car stuck in a soft patch. great to have you on the drive

Badayer is Badayer. Despite the tracks and churned sand in some areas, still enjoyable. Hope all enjoyed the drive, and was a good start of the weekend. Nice to meet all of you, was great time, spent without issues to mention. Thank you @Gertjanfor being SL, and for the nice photos....amazing. @Rob Sthank you for your support, as usual feeling safe when you join and watch the back of the convoy. @Salim Akhtar @Charbel @Chris Wing @Mohamad Anwer @Alexanderrr @Beide Worku did great keeping the pace, thank you for allowing me to keep pushing, without "yalla push'". Support team @Simon D @Pacific @Imteeaz thank you for joining and helping whenever required. Wish you a nice weekend. Good time

Hey all, It was a really nice route this morning and I enjoyed the pace we were having - just interrupted by some other desert experts . I couldn't say good bye to you because my help was needed in the desert and I headed back for the driving directors cut! So please accept this as my formal good bye and see you next week! I enjoyed the group dynamic very much today and I like to meet familiar faces every week! Thank you for the good teamwork! And special thanks to the our leader @Varun Mehndiratta in his shiny half-door Rubicon! Have a nice weekend!

The master is watching on the top, I need to redo my climbing properly 😅😅 Thank you @Varun Mehndiratta and everyone, was an amazing drive.

@Hisham Masaad "Al Badayer King" I agree with @Simon D and wish to share the same feedback, thank you for the great drive with old friends just like old times. 😀. We felt well connected like the old days 😌 Thank you @Beide Worku @Imteeaz @Rob S @Chris Wing for helping me with the popout towards the end of the drive. @Beide Worku beleive me, even though I love your jack and the hightech kit on your vehicle, its not intentional to have pop outs when we are on the same drive! 😉 However, it is always re assuring to have you on the drive, as it takes 10 minutes max with your kit to fix a popout. To the rest of the convoy, great driving gents. @Charbel I hope your car us ok, as it looked a lot more serious when it happened, than the actual minor damage we saw 👀, hope you only need to fix the lights and rats it! Regards, MOHD

Thanks @Hisham Masaad for the thrilling drive . as always enjoying the company and sharing some laughs with some old friends make a good weekend start see you all again soon in the sand soon

This was a fun fast paced drive , only 1 stuck from me, thanks @Krishna Rfor the assist. Despite the intermingle of another convoy and getting lost with @Benjamin this is now my favourite drive. I’ve been rewatching the videos, will post when I get a chance. next time I do that climb near the end I’ll be more careful on the early part of the climb, hadn’t realised my rear end jumped as much as it did. Great dunes, comms and banter from all.

Dobre odpoledne, doc. @M.Seidam, I’m hopefully now well equipped for our next night adventures with dead batteries ☺️

Dobre den @Marketa Dobesova very well done . Indeed it’s very helpful to own such gadget when in the middle of no where 😅

Cracking drive today, thanks @Hisham Masaad and the rest of the gang! managed to take a few photos as sweep but having trouble uploading. Will try again tomorrow!

@Varun Mehndiratta seems like a great way to get the product you actually want! I have seen Garmin’s watch products they look awesome funnily enough when you mentioned it in your post I had to go check it out as it’s the first I’m hearing of the brand. Good choice though in the end!

Thanks Benjamin got the Garmin 😀 As my wife always says - moment I start comparing a well established/well known/commonly used product with something, more often than not I am just finding excuse to prove the other one is better, in my mind I am already sold 😊😀 So yeah map rep on Garmin is better is the reason I used to convince myself 😂

Guys, if anyone have photo or video recovery of the Nissan Patrol today, please share. 👍👍👍

Hey @Looper, thanks a lot for your advice again, indeed, this was for me the only option and I bought them today!!! 🤩

Thanks @Patrick looking forward to see you in some hours!

My first two FB+ drives with @Varun Mehndiratta and I learned a lot from those two drives. You managed to keep the drive challenging/interesting, yet comfortable enough for us to use and improve our skills. Fantastic drive with an excellent convoy.

Again, it was a fantastic drive today morning. @Varun Mehndiratta i like your track selection and agree with @Patrick van der Loo about your leadership we made 47km and driving time was 1:45 hour. The whole convoy was amazing today and special respect to @Ishak and his performance today. Have a great weekend .

Glad you made it @Felix Obst😁

Thanks @Varun Mehndiratta for the drive. it was amazing smooth and allowed us to stress our vehicles engines. I broke my flag in the first 60 min 🙃 i even didnt saw it when it fell down. thanks @Mark B for getting it and lending me the suction flag mount which helps to continue the drive safely. @Ishak u did well as a second lead, @Bashar Beasha was driving flawless in the dunes with his supper safari. I believe large engines created for such terrains. Adjusting the convoy order allowed us to move even faster, thx again Varun for ur precise notice and judgments. we learned today many techniques and we were following our marshal with no hesitation at all. @Krishna R was doing great in sweep postion... the closure in Iftar Bowel was brilliant 👏 👏 long story short, all did amazing and the drive was super enjoyable short video can be found in the bellow link: https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS8TDL4hS/ looking forward to drive with u all again. Ahmad

Dear Friends Marketa Dobesova @Marketa Dobesova Tatsiana Chase @Tatsiana Chase essam ibrahim @essam ibrahim Glenn W @Glenn W Shinebabu @Shinebabu Ben Lee @Ben Lee Saverio Arena @Saverio Arena Mahmoud Taha @Mahmoud Taha Pavel Pashkovskiy @Pavel Pashkovskiy Patrick @Patrick Felix Obst @Felix Obst Looper @Looper DP1011 @DP1011 Senthil Kumar @Senthil Kumar Note the following Please be on time and bring all your passion for off-roading and a Full fuel tank as much as possible. Deflate your tires to 12 psi for all terrain tires and 15 psi if regular tires Please ensure your programable radio is on, fully charged and set to Channel 1 (446,006). Briefing will be done before we start moving Please ensure everything in the car is tied down and there are no moving objects Please check all car fluids, tow hooks, and ensure no hanging parts below the chassis. please ensure you come with a full tank (as much as possible) in addition to all mandatory gear for this drive level specially your 1. tire deflator, 2. pressure gauge 3. compressor, 4. safety flag and 5. radio. (NO FLAG or RADIO = NO DRIVE) Meeting point is as below at 6 am https://goo.gl/maps/LdEjQdBufXo2Dq4q8 Right off Dubai-Hatta road- Look for Dune Buggy meeting point/Desert safari Quad biking Lehbab on your google maps to confirm you are heading to right location For Area 53 drive which is favorite spot among off roaders, expect lot of crowd at meeting point. So kindly line up one behind other without blocking the access to others and look for pedestrian's /kids walking across as you arrive. 1. Expect churned tracks , but we will take a route as clean as possible 2. Look for cross traffic from other off-roaders/convoys which is your responsibility . Will be announcing on radio 3. Keep safe distance, avoid fighting gravity at all times Please note the listing for tomorrow See you tomorrow

@Frederic thank you so much for allowing me to lead this wonderful expedition through some tricky terrain, we made it to the watch tower and very close to our planned exit point. During this time we had two stucks and a couple of refusals, which given the terrain was exceptionally good. This was of course due to the super skill shown by all of the drivers in the convoy, well done to you all @Patrick @Ahmed Wagdy @Misha Puskar @Stan @Frans M @Zubair and @premindra rajaram. You guys drove the wheels off you vehicles and made the drive, covering a super pleasurable 41 km with great company, thank you all. Thanks @Mehmet Volga for joining the convoy and being our CF you did an amazing job appreciate all the help and support. @premindra rajaram you were amazing at sweep given it was your first one so well done my friend and you can sweep my convoy any time. have a great rest of your weekend thanks Davie some stats for those that like to see what we did and where we went

Dear Friends It was a real pleasure meeting and driving with you all . Indeed these afternoon weekday short sprints are stress relieving and an opportunity for those who has full weekend to enjoy the dunes still including my self 😄 @Fabien Monleau thank you for executing the second lead flawlessly and despite the pop out it was managed in no time . Good to see you after quite a while realy 🙏 @Ahmad Nerat I am impressed of your handling truly and you proved that you were not the weakest link despite my pushing in little sweihan at some time. I didn’t feel it was your first Fb+ drive well done my friend 👍, thanks for the nice clip too with the monkey dance back ground remix 😄🙏 @Sunil Mathew it seems that you and the fortuner are synchronised doesn’t matter if it’s black or white 😅 pleasure meeting you again dear. @Ignacio Quindós I am more than happy to learn that these weekday drives found a solution to stress relieve your coming busy weekend . You drove you keep fantastically well 👍 @Mohamad Anwer it has been really for a while since we drove together . Good to see you brother and well done 👍 last but not least many thanks to @Hisham Masaadfor watching us all from the rear of the convoy . Really pleasure to see you after such a long time . See you all soon in the sand inshallah Seidam

Hi @Varun Mehndiratta I don’t have a ton of experience with it but I have tried it before With the Apple Watch variant you can do a number of basic things with it 1. Navigate: from here you can go onto your iOS version of Gaia gps and switch your tracks to ‘routes’ after doing that you can then send any desired route to your Apple Watch to of which it’ll sync for a few mins around 5-10 mins. On the watch it’ll show the route you saved to it and will display basic info like distance travelled or elevation. From there you can navigate to start route. And your watch will record your track as you follow the route. The watch then displays a few other taps one of which being an off route tab (basically tells you how off route you are and what direction you gotta be to get back on course) it updates relatively slowly in my opinion so I don’t see massive use in it but maybe other people have had other experiences with it. You also have access to adding waypoints and pausing your movement which will also stop recording your Bpm and distance travelled. Apart from that the final tab allows you to see how many kilometers you have travelled the total time you have taken and how fast your going per Km. Once ending your session it will display things like average bpm and the max alongside how many calories you have burnt. 2. Record: I don’t have tons of experience with this one but all I know is that you can create tracks and waypoints where your standing. conclusion: for off-roading I don’t see the need for the app in most cases you’ll have your phone on a mount which is probably safer than looking at your wrist. For hiking and other such activities it can be a nice aid but usually the app will ask you to look on your phone if your lost or to find a more accurate way to your route. So you’ll be carrying your phone with you anyway; still a nice piece of software apart from that if your looking to record your activity your better off using apple’s exercise app as this records all bpm, distance travelled, and exercise rings only massive difference is you can’t make tracks with it. I’ll attach some pics below so you can have a look of what the app should look like on an Apple Watch

Sorry guys have to leave the drive due to illness 🤢. Have fun and catch you next time.

Okay had the same view 😂!