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@M.Seidam it was wonderful drive today, started with slow phase and moved up gradually, where it was accepted by everyone in the convoy @Issam AtraYou were exceptionally watchful and attentive to every movement, adding a touch of beauty to the second lead. @Mostafa Nasef You were truly impressive on your inaugural drive, handling some challenging stretches with skill and confidence. @Dan S You've demonstrated excellent driving skills, and it's evident that you've learned how to navigate crests with your long truck and handle them effectively. This experience will undoubtedly enhance your driving abilities. Additionally, your attentiveness to the car in front and maintaining proper spacing was commendable. @S.Mahesh I hope your children had a great time during the drive. Your responsiveness when we were providing guidance was appreciated, and it emphasizes the importance of us offering our support to you. @Rafey Hashmi I don't have much more to say; your consistent attention to the cars ahead, your adherence to proper spacing, and your commendable driving performance show your eagerness to further develop your driving skills. @Ali Al Moumar, @Ishak @Abhilash Kottakkal, @Sreenath GYou've showcased outstanding driving abilities. @IshakHope your friends enjoyed the drive. @Ali Al Moumar thank you for the tea. @Joji varghese amazing sweep. While off-roading, we consistently encounter unforeseen surprises.

Drive report Thank you guys for the previous comments and the nice photos and clip . Nothing much left to say except to thank you all for being on time and adhering to the convoy discipline throughout the whole drive, hence we had an enjoyable safe drive . Also it was a pleasure meeting all these new fine faces as well as familiar ones .Noticeable were @Mostafa Nasef an absolutely first time in sand and @Dan S first time in a convoy after a masterclass . Truly I was impressed with both getting into the game very fast handling their own vehicles very nicely and recovering themselves from situations without the need to pull a rope from the trunk . Well done . Special thanks to @Rajiv Sam in the middle and @Joji varghese at the tail of the convoy whom they spared no effort guiding helping and watching on all of us . Same goes to @Issam Atra who played the second lead rule fantastically. Loved your communication and clarity on radio . remaining fellow drivers @S.Mahesh @Rafey Hashmi @Ali Al Moumar @Ishak @Abhilash Kottakkal @Sreenath G all of you did more than great. I did enjoy the drive along with my little copilot very much and I hope same you did . till we meet once more take care and drive safe 🙏 Seidam

@Looperthank you very much for the ride.... that was the most exciting ride i ever had till now...thank you for all your advises to improve..it's so valuable to keep going.. @Imteeaz i see you in action with that difficult popout....great support... @Ranjan Das thank you for guiding me down that stuck... @Emanuel always great following you..its just perfect... every one on the convoy great team great effort.. to tell you the fact this is the drive that really made me confident to continue pushing for more....thank you all....😀 have a great week days and hope the weekends come sooner so we can hit the sand again....

Thank you @Frederic for leading, you made a great decision, for us Dubaians, a longer drive home was worth every second. Hope our Abu Dhabi team mates enjoyed the shorter journey home. This drive had me thinking of every desert scene from Star Wars to Indiana jones. We covered a lot of ground had a great pace, radio chatter and beautiful scenery not to mention mid 20s temperatures for the first half of the drive. This drive was the definition of fun, scenery and teamwork .

Oh! We enjoyed thoroughly and the kids are eagerly waiting for the next drive.

Thanks and appreciation to you, our great doctor @M.Seidam, and to all wonderful support team & group, We all enjoyed it. Fantastic drive. Inshallah we meet soon again. Of course with our lovely Abdullah. 👍

@Rajiv Sam you were a great support to the team when required. Many thanks to you and to @Joji varghese our great sweep . See you shortly in sands with the traditional tea but with a different flavor 😉

Nice one Dan . You have done more than great today very well done 👍 Most welcome Abhilash . Glad to see you today pop out free and remember the car / tires take only 20% as a cause and more than the remaining 80 and above is driver style and today I believe you got the hang of it 😉

While leading drives fiddling with the phone became too cumbersome to use the action camera, hence I bit the bullet and bought the second generation GPS remote. This post acts to update my recommendation on the same. I want to update my recommendation here to Buy for the GPS remote if you can afford it. I have seen it being sold at AED 318 on amazon. If you are buying new from Insta360 directly you can add to the shopping cart there to save on the shipping. In the past I had recorded GPS data using my phone when I used to use it as the remote. The data was wrong and all over the place, so much so that I completely disabled recording GPS data. One more benefit I see is, it stays connected to the camera all the time so you can start stop recording whenever you want. With the phone as the remote, if you have used the phone for anything else it would disconnect and sometimes it becomes difficult to connect again. GPS remote connects with the camera in about 5-10 seconds and stays connected till the battery lasts. The remote needs to be near to the camera for the first connection and it stays in connection upto 20 m they say. This I learnt the hard way when in the Badayer drive I set it up on the mount and started to drive, hoping it will connect, but it did not. I had to go near the action camera when we stopped to some weird comments from the convoy as to what I was doing. 😆 The remote shows the battery status for both the camera and the remote. You can circle though the various shooting modes, but it does not go into Video HDR mode in the remote but if activated in the camera it will show and record in that mode. It also shows the time recorded. It comes with a couple of bands, one for wrist and other for a cycle handle bar. The battery for the GPS remote seem to last for 5-6 h ours more than enough for a drive. I have asked the Insta360 guys and they have told me that upto 3 cameras can be connected and activated simultaneously with this remote. I will try to test it when I can and update here.

Hello dears, I have made a small video containing most of today photos and videos that I have taken, to be best seen in vertical screens (on the phone). The video is unlisted, only using this link somebody can see (best for privacy) I hope you will like it:

Thanks for joining today guys ! The original plan of looping around in the Al Hayer South area was dropped when i came to realize our boys from Abu-Dhabi took 1h45mins and more to reach the meeting point. For us Dubai residents it's a rather short drive so i decided to make our way deeper towards the famous Nahel-Sweihan area. All of you drove superbly, and apart from a couple of nice self-recoveries there was hardly any work to do We succeeded to find Old Lady Dune, but found it scattered with crosstracks and that made the climb less fun than a couple of weeks ago. It felt like 50 clubs went through it in the same morning. @Naveen Raj @Rk ram@Patrick van der Loo@Gary F@Zulfikhar Naiyar@Zed@Kailas@Ahmad Nerat@Anoop Nair@Jona@Karthik_LC200 Enjoy the rest of the weekend and see you all soon in the sand again ! https://www.relive.cc/view/vXvL1g2yK1O

Friday, 29th Sep 2023 there was an Advisor "Yalla Push" drive at Al Badayer posted by @Hisham Masaad. In this post I share with you 3 videos. I have not added any music to these videos, because my current mounting solution for the action camera does not add a lot of wind noise which was an irritant when the action camera was mounted on the side of the windows with suction cups. The sweet sweet sound of @Simon D's V6 is mostly what you will hear in the videos. You will find that I have overlayed telemetry data in these videos, courtesy of the new gps remote. The new generation gps remote seems to work pretty nicely. The first video does not have elevation data because it did not seem correct to me, but the rest were pretty good. Last video is my favourite because of the fresh new dunes @Hisham Masaad took us though which frankly is a rarity in that area. As every YouTuber says Subscribe to the channel and Smash That Like Button. 😅 Video 1 (3:10) Video 2 (10:01) Video 3 (12:02)

@M.Seidam thank you very much doc for the wonderfull drive....gave me some good confidence on my tyres... may be you don't know... I was kind of the pop out guy in last couple of weeks and got very tired of it....

Great drive, thank you very much @Looper and and the support team, every one made it out in one piece 🙏👍 I did manage to capture the Jeep parking lot 😂, but then karma kicked in and I blew a front cv shaft on the way home 🥴

Just like any other sport or hobby, off road driving too has it's own etiquette's. Often times these are not spoken out loud or mentioned in public to not to embarrass anyone. If you like to continue off road driving, you should know these basic offroad driving etiquette's and follow them. Pay 100% undivided attention to the instructions: Whether it's in briefing or on radio communication while recovering, give your 100% attention and if you cannot due to some incoming call or passenger distraction, ask them to repeat. Most of the instructions are given so that you can drive safely. If you still live in the mobile world or loud music or radio volume turned down, you will miss out on critical safety instruction that can end up breaking your 4x4 or bones, seriously. Follow the instruction PRECISELY: From as simple as deflate to 12-14 PSI, drive in HI gear, engage to LO as soon as you get stuck. These instructions have been given to YOU for YOUR safety and enhancing your offroad driving experience. If you deflate to 22 PSI instead of 12, you will have endless refusals, stucks and A/T Transmission & Engine will soon overheat. If you don't engage on LO as soon as you get stuck, you will lose the most critical surface area in which LO gear could have saved the day, rather than toiling in HI gear for first few minutes and making the stuck even more worst for your car. Acknowledge the message: Always acknowledge the radio messages as the reliability of radio communication is highly questionable. Step out and help: When you are stuck and someone is helping you, it's a BASIC MANNER to step out of your car and help the Marshal or senior member who is helping you. You can help them clearing the sand, fixing the rope or inspect the stuck or plan of recovery. Sitting inside a stuck vehicle and waiting is the worst and most offending thing to do. If someone is helping you to check tire pressure, then step out and observe, how to delate to precise PSI. Disclaimer: In some 1% tricky angles or situation, if you have a doubt or difficulty to come out, ask the Marshal or senior member: If its safe for you to step out? Please don't assume and sit inside. Observe and learn: Every stuck and recovery has a lot to teach. Observe and learn from your stucks and discuss with Marshals how to not to get stuck again in a similar way. If you don't observe and learn you will end up doing the same mistakes over and over again. Learn Vs Serve: All the knowledge and experience are there to help you learn offroading and not just to serve you. So that as soon as you learn, you start practising it and become more capable offroader and be able to help others in the future.