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Hey everyone, Yesterday's newbie desert drive in the Faqa area of Dubai was a fantastic experience! Everyone showed up on time for the briefing, and we kicked off the drive smoothly. We encountered only a few refusals and second attempts, and just two stucks that required some shoveling. @saumik1989 had a notable stuck, which I unfortunately missed. From what I heard, it seemed like he didn't have enough momentum and got caught in a tricky patch of soft sand. As for me, I had to give the White Rhino a short break and spray water on the transmission radiator due to an overheat. Thankfully, this didn't delay the convoy since we were playing on a larger dune at the time. Pajeros are prone to overheating in the summer, and I should have been driving in Tiptronic mode instead of D—a valuable tip Vanessa gave me about three years ago. @lucas amat managed to self-recover with a bit of help after what appeared to be a misjudge of the angle onto a ridge and planting the front of his Jeep into a big bush. @Vanessa8580 also had a minor incident, planting the front of her Xterra into another bush while navigating a small but steep dune. All great early learning opportunities. Overall, it was a relaxing and enjoyable drive. A big thank you to our marshal, @Vanessa8580, @JeromeFJ in sweep, and @lucas amat in second lead. It was great meeting all the new drivers, and I'm looking forward to driving with you all again soon. Cheers!

Thanks for yesterday’s morning @Vanessa8580, @Emanuel and @JeromeFJ a lot more driving now that we can stay away of the stuck Defender messages 😜 In case some are interested, this was our drive today!

Dear desert wanders @Mei ling, @Nicolò, @Shary, @ChrisW, @Jose Luis Campos, @Paul Eldho, @essam ibrahim, @B.K., @FERNANDO SYRIO, @Luke K P, @Mark B @Benje_Junior, thank you all for a great drive today I thoroughly enjoyed it, We had a little bit of everything,, from Technical dunes to mid to long range and some soft sand to mix it up a little bit. You all drove so well I thought I had an intermediate group with me. So well in fact that we only had a couple of stucks and a handful of refusals including my own self-induced ridge crest so well done to each and everyone of you. A special shout out to my Second Lead @ChrisW who did an amazing job as always of smoothing my lines out and reacting to the late instructions to change the line, great reactions and job well done, thanks again mate. In the sweep we had the talented and colorful @Luke K P always a pleasure to have you in the convoy bringing that spot of color with you, great coms keeping the rear of the convoy firmly together and attending flawlessly to the occasional refusal, appreciate all the help mate. In CF 1 we had @Mark B, always calm under pressure and everywhere you needed to be with eyes on the issues and a calming concise manner at dealing with everything that was thrown at you I am sure everyone learnt a great deal today from you and how to self recover great job mate and thanks again. In CF2 we had our newest lead at Carnity @Benje_Junior, great support as always. good to hear you on the radio taking control of situations and giving advise where needed, this is all a part of your journey which you are acing, straight A student well done and keep it up, I am looking forward to support one of your drives in the near future. What a great start to the weekend, I hope you all have a safe and wonderful rest of your weekend and I look forward to seeing you all again very soon in the sand Here is a little RELIVE Video for you all to enjoy https://www.relive.com/view/vZqNo75j3Gv

Thanks @Ale Vallecchi for great drive. The dunes were very nice today without too many bushes, I enjoyed it a lot and tks for entrusting me my 1st sweep drive ))

Thanks for the great afternoon @Ale Vallecchi, @Andrew John Melvill and @Yurybel thoroughly enjoyed the ride through Al Qudra, good fun even though the camels and gazelles were not advised of our visit and did not come out to play in great numbers. Still can’t work uploading my photos in the gallery, so please find same below. Hope to see you all again soon!

Thank you so much @Vanessa8580, @JeromeFJ, @Emanuel for a great drive. Super grateful for your support and guidance today

Dear @Juzer Talib no problem with bringing passengers. See you this afternoon.

Hello @Ale Vallecchi, Just wanted to confirm if it would be alright to have 2 passengers along for tomorrow's drive. Thanks.

Thanks for a fun drive today, @Davie Smooth_Operator. Everyone drove really well and kept their cool even as the temperatures came up. Plenty of variety in conditions to practice fundamental techniques…good practice for all experience levels. Also thanks @Benje_Junior, @Mark B and @Luke K P for supporting - with extra thanks to Luke for the coffee!

Dear Desertnauts, getting ready for Sunday's PM drive, please try to reach the meeting point several minutes before 3:00 PM, so that we may give a more detailed briefing to our 2 Absolut Newbies (and the rest of the Newbie crew) and still manage to depart timely. We plan to cruise the first segment across relatively clean and ample cordons, before reaching a bushy stretch of sand toward the middle of Lisaili's area, and cutting across a large sabkha, leading to Qudra's "secret dunes". Here we'll enjoy the miraculously clean dunes snaking from left to right, and from east to west, until we'll conclude the drive next to the Qudra Lakes. If time permits, the members who still want to relax in the balmy Sunday evening will be led to the Lisaili Fort Hidden Cafe, to enjoy the dusk, and sip on juices, and other drinks. The convoy will line up as follows: @Andrew John Melvill in Second Lead, @Nikki1007 at #3 @Sebastien at #4 @Warbs at #5 @Myrko at #6 @Kirill K at #7 @Juzer Talib at #8 @Alex M at #9 and @Yurybel in Sweep. See you all on Sunday afternoon. Enjoy the end of the week and your Saturday rest.

Great lead by @M.Seidam for my first carnity night drive could have been the terrain but felt super comfortable going through the "playgrounds" and had a great time so big thanks to everyone in the convoy for the smooth drive @Andrei S @Zsolt @Jose Luis Campos @Mahmut special thanks to @Senthil Kumar for the guidance and @Mike M. for bringing the light of god and illuminating qudra as before. Struggle with the flag continues. Hopefully next solution will be the final one 😂

Fantastic concept @M.Seidam ! no better way to spend a nice evening with some Carnity friends !