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3 minutes ago, Beide Worku said:

I don’t know if this is a competition worth having but, thanks to this conversation, I just learned that I had contributed to the AD economy a cool sum of 3k over a span of 2 days in Feb. Who’s your Abu Dhaddy now? 🤣

I’d say there should be an amendment to the golden visa rule. 

One of the reasons I do so few drives in AD is that almost every time that I drive there I also find myself contributing more than expected to the AD economy. So, finding that we ended up deep into AD territory (... I thought we were headed for Solar Park, by the way!) I made sure to remain carefully 2kph below the stated limit.

I guess this is the (literal) price we pay for the opportunity to drive in the beautiful dunes AD has to offer. 

On 5/31/2022 at 9:47 AM, Ashok chaturvedi said:

 

Great to have dear Richard back, I once recall he was behind me on a drive ( as a convoy driver) and I  was superlative nervous to have a Marshal behind me.  Near-half way of the drive he had to exit as his car was having some engine problem and I then could totally relax.  

If I recall that was a drive with @Lorenzo Candelpergher where I managed to snap the stabilizer arm on the Jeep so I was at a severe disadvantage during the drive!

Let's hope for a less eventful drive this week - I cannot afford to both repair the car and pay for the petrol to run it!

Apart from the ludicrous start time, looking forward to the drive!

@varunmehndiratta looking forward to supporting your drive. Faqa has some great challenges from high dunes and ridges to sweeping dunes with exciting bowls. 

@Ashok chaturvedi I will do my best to ensure that you are relaxed, but this time without breaking my car. I am pleased that such an experienced driver is joining the drive - so those with less experience can follow your line. 

Well deserved Davie, you are an asset to the support team. 

HI All, 

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• Waqar Sarwar @Waqar Sarwar
• Joji varghese @Joji varghese
• george charbel @george charbel
• Rajiv Sam @Rajiv Sam
• eldose baby @eldose baby
• Dinesh Kumar A @Dinesh Kumar A
• Pacific @Pacific
• Manoj Soman @Manoj Soman
• Farook Veettil @Farook Veettil
• Savio Fernandes @Savio Fernandes
• Quresh Pajero @Quresh Pajero
• Foxtrot Oscar @Foxtrot Oscar

Tonight's drive - 

1. If anyone cannot come because it's Ramadan - Ramadan Kareem, and please advise in advance. 
2. We will leave at 8pm, earlier if possible.
3. You don't need special lights.
4. Will be a gentle first night drive experience for many of you.
5. We will sort out the order during the briefing.

Look forward to seeing you.

• Tom V @Tom V
• Pierre de Maigret @Pierre de Maigret
• Gerrit Bus @Gerrit Bus
• Gurcharan Mehta @Gurcharan Mehta
• Jerome FJ @JeromeFJ
• Jona @Jona
• eldose baby @eldose baby
• Lawrence_Chehimi @Lawrence_Chehimi
• Joseph Raju @Joseph Raju
• Tareq Al Turq @Tareq Al Turq

Hi all, 

Well, that was a blast. It's what I call a 'flow' drive - the objective is to keep the convoy moving as smoothly as possible while still presenting lots of challenges along the way. 

Once you all got into the swing, and understood the Fewbie pace we needed, we flew, literally from dune to dune without problems. The fact we got so far without any real problems was testament to the excellent driving skills, focus and consideration for each other.

I was very impressed by the way you all negotiated the challenges and the room you gave yourselves and others on the convoy. Most incredible, is that you all covered some of the technical patches that put fear into the minds of many drivers, so they end up faltering and getting stuck. Instead, you all stuck with it and (maybe because I did not make a big thing of it) made your way through with only a few refusals and one car that needed digging out. 

It was all great practice for @JeromeFJ who was an excellent CF for what ever problems needed sorting. 

Drivers/drives of note:

@Lawrence_Chehimi - new wheels, new experience, great job as we would expect.

@Gerrit Bus - love the gladiator and the fact you just don't let the fact it's as long as a bus phase you. 

@Gurcharan Mehta - my apologies for questioning if you'll follow the line. You were impeccable. 

@Tareq Al Turq - last in, first out! Glad you were helped by everyone to get you going quickly.

All the rest - all the best. 

See you sometime in the sand. 

Good evening, 

Convoy order for tomorrow:

1. Wrangeld
2. Eldose baby
3. Tom V 
4. Gurcharan Mehta 
5. Jona 
6. JeromeFJ
7. Gerrit 
8. Lawrence Chehimi 
9. Joseph Raju 
10. Tareq Al Turq 
11. Pierre de Maigret

Good morning All. 

• Tom V @Tom V
• Pierre de Maigret @Pierre de Maigret
• Gerrit Bus @Gerrit Bus
• Gurcharan Mehta @Gurcharan Mehta
• Jona @Jona
• eldose baby @eldose baby
• Lawrence_Chehimi @Lawrence_Chehimi
• Adnan Halepota @Adnan Halepota
• Joseph Raju @Joseph Raju
• Tareq Al Turq @Tareq Al Turq
• Adhir Saxena @Adhir Saxena

You're on the drive Adhir, you are moved up from WL to the drive as you were a first drive WL. 

Convoy: list to follow later. 

Here's the current state of play

• Tom V @Tom V
• Pierre de Maigret @Pierre de Maigret
• Gerrit Bus @Gerrit Bus
• Gurcharan Mehta @Gurcharan Mehta
• Gregory @Gregory
• Jona @Jona
• Manoj Soman @Manoj Soman
• eldose baby @eldose baby
• Lawrence_Chehimi @Lawrence_Chehimi
• Adnan Halepota @Adnan Halepota

• Beide Worku @Beide Worku
• hugo @hugo
• Daniel Rodas @Daniel Rodas
• Joseph Raju @Joseph Raju
• Farook Veettil @Farook Veettil

If you are going to be unable to attend you'll see there are people in the waitlist. We will take the waitlist based on first drive getting priority. 

PLEASE NOTE: THIS DRIVE STARTS AT 9AM NOT 7AM. It looks like this weekend will be one of the last before it starts to get super hot again, so we will take advantage of a later start. If it's too hot while out on the drive we can always decide to finish earlier. 

6 minutes ago, Gerrit Bus said:

Appreciated. Thanks. See you then. 

Should be the last cool weekend of the season. 

9am to 13.00

This drive is organized in full compliance with the COVID19 guidelines. We expect every member that joins this drive to go through below information and strictly follow these guidelines in order not to jeopardize someone's health, and to ensure we can keep organizing these drives safely.

MUST READ AND TOTALLY AGREE: 

• COVID19 Precautions
• Mandatory Safety Requirements
• Ban from Carnity Off-road Club
• Two Way Radio Guidelines

Drive Details

Level:  Fewbie and above

When:  19 Mar 2022, Saturday

Meeting time: 09:00 (SHARP - Without any exceptions)

Starting Point: https://goo.gl/maps/k4HM5gj447nuKC7Z7

Type of Car: Any proper 4x4 with front and back tow hooks and 8-10 inches of ground clearance.

What to bring along: Loads of water, snacks (for yourself), face mask, rubber gloves, enthusiasm and willingness to learn.

Approximate finish time: 13:00 PM

THIS IS A COMPRESSOR ONLY DRIVE. WE WILL END THE DRIVE AT A POINT WHICH IS NOT CLOSE TO AN AIR LINE. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A COMPRESSOR, PLEASE DO NOT SIGN UP FOR THIS DRIVE. IF YOU ARRIVE AND HAVE NO COMPRESSOR YOU WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO JOIN THE DRIVE

LIMITED SPOTS AVAILABLE:

• Limited to 10 Fewbies and above drivers. RSVP will close on saturday - 9 AM.
  • If the RSVP is full and you wish to join, please mention your name on the drive thread to add on the waiting list. 
• Latecomers will be returned back - without ANY EXCEPTIONS.
• Members without RSVP will be returned back - without ANY EXCEPTIONS.
• Please withdraw your RSVP, if you aren't joining, so your spot can be taken by others.
• Repeated no-show members after RSVP will have their account suspended for a month.
   

Please RSVP on Below Calendar: 

2 hours ago, Juzer Gandhi said:

Yipee!
Special thanks to all my mentors, @Rob S for his encouragement. @Wrangeld my real Yoda, my Jedi Master introducing me to the sands. @Vanessa8580for her super supporting and affable nature @Chaitanya Dfor scaring the wits out of me on my newbie drive where I was wondering if I enrolled myself into an advance drive by mistake.

Thanks once again and love to see you all in this forum so passionate and encouraging to new comers. Love you all.

Congratulations Juzer. Delighted for you. 

As @Vanessa8580 says, I will lead a drive on Saturday morning. Looking forward to this, as I have been out of Carnity action for a few weeks. 

@Juzer Gandhi hope to live up to expectations. 

28 minutes ago, Gregory said:

Thanks for this @Frederic, from a fellow Pajero owner. I had issues with my system last year, but after trial and error, and changing the "family" of solenoids, all is like new again, and find the system quite reliable. A nice summary how it actually works. Am actually a big fan of the Pajero system including tiptronic, as opposed to using only the automatic option.  Keep this quiet though - don't tell @Wrangeld, as I can hear him say "Always drive in D, the car knows better than you" 🤣😂

I am but a humble servant of the Pajero. I will let you know the moment that I use the tiptronic. 

46 minutes ago, Harshad Ashraf said:

@Wrangeld meeting point will be updated later ? As I can see only text “dropped pin “

Take a look in the calendar to find the dropped pin

Dear Desert Desertpeople

This is the final list of attendees on the drive on Saturday. 

• Imteeaz @Imteeaz
• Davie Chase @Davie Chase
• Tom B @Tom B
• Harshad Ashraf @Harshad Ashraf
• Joji varghese @Joji varghese
• Karthik Raptor @Karthik Raptor
• Daniel Rodas @Daniel Rodas
• Gertjan @Gertjan
• Alexanderrr @Alexanderrr
• Rob S @Rob S
• Richard Franks @Richard Franks
• Reggie Landicho @Reggie Landicho
• sri ganesh @sri ganesh
• eldose baby @eldose baby
• Miamimoe @Miamimoe

You all made it. It's a long, long convoy. The conditions, however, could not be better. So let's see what we can achieve on this drive. 

I will send a convoy later. 

3 minutes ago, eldose baby said:

Hi @Wrangeld, Due to some unforeseen circumstances , I will not be able to join the drive tomorrow. Please remove me from the list. Apologies for the inconvenience. 

Sure, shame, noted. 

9 minutes ago, Rsjiv Samuel said:

Noted

Thanks for the understanding. 

@Rsjiv Samuel Sorry to break the bad news to you, but I had to place you back in the waitlist for the drive on Saturday. I guess you jumped in at the moment that Naim signed out, but we have a system in Carnity that the first person on the waitlist is the first person moved up to the drive and that was @Rob S and people that do not have another drive booked get preference (which was also the case for Rob. 

If I've got this wrong, please let me know, but when I looked at the original waitlist you were around number 12. 

The rules are there for, and apply to all equally so I hope you understand. 

22 minutes ago, Rob S said:

Hi @Wrangeld can I assume I will be added in as replacement of Naim for Saturdays drive? 

Yes, Rob, you will be automatically added to the list as first in WL