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Appreciate your willingness to help @Thomas Varghese. Will announce the team and radio channel tomorrow.

@Thomas Varghese this will be a newbie drive, might not be your flavor. However let me wait for the response from @Nafiz and @Anvar Sadath Bekal. If both cannot make it I'll add you to my drive.

We are nearly there. I can see that @jeetu sharma has already secured a spot in @Wrangeld drive on Friday morning, which means he would nwill be able to join us. With Wednesday coming to a close let me know if @Nafiz or @Anvar Sadath Bekal want to join this trip. I only have one spot open, so fastest finger first gets to go.

But diamond are a ladies best friend, not gold.

Thanks for this amazing post @Frederic. A new found respect for the winch. I suggest people start tagging everyone they know with a winch to add value to this post. @Gaurav, @Frederic, @Ahab Shamaa, @Rajeevan Vickneswaran.

I didn't know you could double up your winch line to distribute the load. That was new to me.

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Great share @Lakshmi Narasimhan. Simple, long wheel base vehicle, so lack of momentum is what crested him.

Dr @Mohamed Seidam with more support I'm sure we can continue having these extreme drives every week. @Srikumar is doing a wonderful job at scheduling all these drives and he has a better vision on what's in store for our future drives.

If I'm going off-roading I'd take the Rubicon any day.

@Ilya Golubinsky my blood pressure went up just looking at the video. Wow what a drive and we'll captured. Looked like you had to dodge the other convoys in similar space. well done guys.

@Nafiz and @Anvar Sadath Bekal thank you for the updates. @jeetu sharma looks like you're the only one in waitlist. Let's wait till Wednesday and I should be able to add you for your second drive.

Welcome to your extended family @jeetu sharma. I've noticed you're waitlisted on my drive and hope to meet up with you this coming Friday morning. Currently due to Covid19 restrictions we are even doing briefing over the radio, so drone flying is not feasible. But we do have our eyes on progress towards fighting Covid19 and as soon as the restrictions ease up you'll be in business. For the moment enjoy learning the art of off-roading and keep working on perfecting the skills you learn every week.

Congratulations brother @Islam Soliman. Its such a pleasure having someone responsible like yourself being promoted to the Advanced level. Our team keeps growing and im glad to have helpful members on our team to support drives. I can't wait to support one of your drives soon.

Congratulations @Lawrence_Chehimi. Hope you continue to enjoy learning and polishing your off-road skills at this new level. 

Thank you @Anvar Sadath Bekal, I have added you to the waitlist, just waiting for @Nafiz to confirm if this will be his first drive. Will update you all as soon as I have the response from him.

Current waitlist:

1. @Nafiz - 1st or 2nd drive?

2. @jeetu sharma - 2nd drive

3. @Anvar Sadath Bekal - 1st drive

I'm glad you're taking it in good spirits @varunmehndiratta. Experience counts too, along with confidence in one another. When you're driving with someone you haven't driven with before, you tend to observe them for a while before you start sync with their car.

@Nafiz and @jeetu sharma, I've added both of you to the waitlist. @Nafiz do you already have a drive or this will be your only drive for this weekend?

Congratulations @Junaid120120. Hope you find joy that this level brings, welcome to the Intermediate level.

Congratulations @soumyasaklani. It was a pleasure having you on my Fossil Rock drive. Watching you drive one thing was evident. You never give up, that's an excellent quality. Paired with being able to self recover, the most satisfying thing in off-roading. Hope you continue to enjoy learning and polishing your skills at this new level. 

@varunmehndiratta no need to try hard. Let it come to you, relax and let the lessons learned be a part of you rather than trying hard. Desert driving is an art, you cannot paint anything any better if you try too hard. It should become a part of your DNA and should come to you naturally. Don't just think about following the car in front of you, replicate the one which you feel is smoothest ahead of you. See closely the line they followed, the angle they attacked, the height, the speed. Criss crossing a dune is the hardest thing if you don't get it right. If you're not travelling at the angle you're supposed to, or at the speed, or at the height. I have seen most people try to stay on top of the dune and than turn sharply to the other side. That is not the way. It has to be smooth manoeuvre. Each dunes is different, but if you're struggling to stay on top, it will be a struggle to get such a manoeuvre right. Even though you survive through a couple of such scenarios, if you're not getting it right, at some point you'll face the unwanted result. If unsure, ask a senior to show you again the line to be taken and then try it out. Practice will make you perfect and all of this will come to you as second nature. Remember when you first stepped in sand, many things were hard and you had to remind yourself of the brief and what to do in that situation. Many of these things come to you naturally now. The many exercises we have put you through are the steps to take you to the next level. Don't be impatient for the next level, enjoy the ride, feel your car. Let yourself and your car be one. If you've managed to get through Reading this so far, you may now refer to @Frederic post on criss-crossing, where he's explained this with help of diagram to do some home work before your next drive.

In a way both @Ahmad Shaker and @N@ved are correct. Try to understand momentum and gravity both have a role to play. The momentum on the vehicle is in the forward direction. Travelling high on a dune is always recommended as a bit lower might be a bit fun due to the softer sand, but dangerous nevertheless. Now your car is at 40 KPH in forward direction and due to gravity and soft sand your car fishtails. Your only option is to countersteer and point your front tires down. If you try to keep straight tires also sand is accumulating on your tires side walls which brings that momentum at the bottom to a halt, but the inertia on the top of your car continues as nothing on top of the car to stop it from going at that 40KPH you were at. This results in flips or roll overs. Never fight gravity. Always keep control of accelerator and steering at all times.

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• We will not share spare radios or program your radio on the drive. If you need assistance in programming the radio, post a topic on the Carnity website with your questions and we will help you out. 
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• No radio = No drive. It is an essential tool and you should make sure you bring it on every drive and learn/practice how to use it.

MUST WATCH: NEWBIE VIDEO BRIEFING

Indeed very sad incident Dr @Mohamed Seidam. This is laziness or lack of knowledge which created such incident. The stuck vehicle did not budge an inch. The way the Patrol was stuck it would have been better to recover it from the other side. As we are unable to see the other side for any dangers, securing the rope with a heavy bag or a bungee cord could have saved the Hummer driver. Diging behind the wheels to create an easy path could have also saved the hard tugs. Such a hard tug is never recommended. Much better to have a few tugs of much lower intensity.

@Frederic is awesome when it comes to audio systems and @Gaurav bhai has an awesome setup too. But when it comes to Android Car or Apple Carplay better to stick to known brands. I was once tempted by the Chinese head unit due to the low cost and inclusions, but its just not worth it. Agree with @Niki Patel here.