Mehmet Volga

Congratulations @Sudhanva Sonawane

Well done @Josh T.. Very well deserved my friend. Lets have some F+ in AD 💪

It was a bit different than we expected; couldn't count how many stucks we had this friday. Looked like canoeing in a river rather than driving as we used our shovels more than steering wheels. Even walking on on that supersoft sand was quite challenging. We couldn't complete our planned track and had to exit on another path due to our overtime on the sand but anyhow, it was a nice friday with friends, smiles, jokes and a lot of workouts to stay fit 💪 @Charbel @Dodi Syahdar and @Christian Andras ; excellent support from front, mid and back ensuring the convoy exited safe and sound. Thank you buddies! It wouldn't be possible without your help. You saved our day! I tasted some worse in the past ( as @Dodi Syahdar may remember our morning drive that ended at 3 pm, which is still a Carnity record with 6 stuck cars at a time in the same bowl 😀) but thanks to your support that we didn't allow this one to go like that. @Salim Akhtar ; it was a challenging start for your new Fewbie adventure but such "stuckful" drives are part of our game and perfect tools to get more experience within a shorter time... and you used it to the end. I am sure you will find your upcoming drives much easier and start enjoying quickly. Sorting out all troubles with a Pajero will make you a tough off-roader so you will find it a piece of cake when you switch to XT. Well done 👍 @Prakash Anoop ; very good performance on your third Fwb drive. During Newbies, you have learned how to "push" your car and discovered its limits. Now, you are learning to "control" that power to open all the way up safely. I know our drive was slightly higher than a regular Fewbie (because of extremely soft sand and technical form of dunes which is not giving easy ways to out) but you perfectly followed the advises, well understood the tricks and applied successfully later on. Keep it up! ... our incredible AD team @John Vanderbleek @ShereenMK and @Josh T. ; outstanding show as always, proving that you are not only good in high speed slopes and climbs but also really good in dealing with stubborn technical dunes! Special cheers to @Josh T. as it is always more difficult to manage big trucks on such technical soft dunes but he had no any stuck as far as I remember. Plus, his monster GMC was on duty to recover all others without blinking. Well done man! 💪✊ ... and @Thomas Varghese it was rally nice to drive with you after a long time. Thank you for your joining and supporting this drive as well as giving such a good feedback on this post buddy. You acted as an additional support, monitored everything and provided good advises for each refusal and stuck. Hope you sorted out the start up problem with your car and we can drive again soon! See you all on the next!

Yes you can join @Thomas Varghese. Please RSVP

@Josh T. @Charbel @John Vanderbleek @ShereenMK @Salim Akhtar @Christian Andras @Prakash Anoop @Dodi Syahdar Revised convoy order; See you in the morning

@Josh T. @Charbel @Hasan Wahlan @John Vanderbleek @ShereenMK @Salim Akhtar @Christian Andras @Prakash Anoop @Dodi Syahdar Good evening friends Here is the convoy order for tomorrow We will be using channel#1 on the radio See you in the morning

copy that @Karthikeyan Govindarajan, next time then 👍

Ok @KAMALIO noted. Thank you for informing 👍

Hi @Imran Kashif. Thank you for your RSVP but this is a Fewbie drive. As your current level is Newbie, you can join to any newbie drive instead of this. @Christian Andras @Dodi Syahdar you are in! @KAMALIO you are 1st in the WL

congrats @Salim Akhtar 👍👍👍

that suits you @JeromeFJ. very well deserved. congratulations 👍

well done @Ben84 keep it up 💪

@Alain Canivet-Abikhalil congratulations 💪

Ops... I forgot to advise for downgrading you. Now we have a "plus" Karthik who even can't self-recover himself 😀 Well done buddy @Karthikeyan Govindarajan. See you soon in AD 👍👍👍

Congratulations @varunmehndiratta

General Info 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 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 Ban from Carnity Off-road Club Two Way Radio Guidelines Drive Details Level: Fewbie and Above When: 19 November 2021 Friday Meeting time: 7:00 AM (SHARP - Without any exceptions) Meeting Point: https://goo.gl/maps/syjd8fpeZxsS2iLM8 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), smiles, face mask, rubber gloves, enthusiasm and willingness to learn. Approximate finish time: 11.00 AM THIS IS A COMPRESSOR ONLY DRIVE. PLEASE DO NOT SIGN UP FOR THIS DRIVE UNLESS YOU HAVE A COMPRESSOR. ANYONE ARRIVING AT THE DRIVE WITHOUT A COMPRESSOR, FLAG, PROPER SHOVEL AND DEFLATION KIT WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO JOIN THE DRIVE. ALL TOW POINTS WILL BE CHECKED BEFORE DEPARTURE. LIMITED SPOTS AVAILABLE: Limited to 10 cars only. RSVP will close on Thursday - 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 THE BELOW IN THE EVENTS CALENDAR

@Alexander Holodny @Damien Ranjit @Daniel Rodas @Mohamad Anwer @Luca Bregni @bassel el rafei @Alexanderrr @Alexanderrr @Paul Zeitoun @Pacific Thank you all for joining our drive yesterday! Great day again to start a lovely weekend. We started right on time and kept a joyful line with stops on big play stations. Rarely used ropes and shovels in a couple of occasions so we had enough time to test our offroading skills, make repeated attempts with trying different methods and tricks and get more familiar with the attitudes of our cars. We tried for better performance by discussing and practicing on timing to push, switching to right gears, keeping right tracks and cheating where required 😎 Excellent lead by @Hisham Masaad ; he took the convoy to all famous bowls and dunes of Mahafiz and we did many practices while getting a great fun on those. Thank you my friend and welcome to the leadersboard! Looking forward to support your upcoming independent drives! Flawless center support by @Paul Zeitoun and sweep by @Pacific ; you saved our day with excellent recoveries and advises so we had our time to enjoy playing. Recovery from the bush; wise move buddies! First time I watched such trimming by using a car and a rope. Experience recorded for the impossible recoveries in the future. Very well done! @Alexander Holodny @Damien Ranjit @Daniel Rodas @Mohamad Anwer @Luca Bregni @bassel el rafei @Alexanderrr; it was really nice to see that you are now fully familiar with your cars and have well control in different offroad acts. Each of you demonstrated very good performance. Well done strong fewbies! 💪 @Alexanderrr did a great start to his fewbie adventure. Excellent performance! Keep it up and enjoy. 👍 * A footnote about our "bush operation"; It was a really smart solution by Paul and Pacific. They recovered the car from a very difficult position without damaging it. Well done! However, when I shared this experience with the Carnity leads and advisors, screams came out! ... dreadful... terrible ... vandals ... how dare you do that ... you killed the environment ... Although we didn't kill any plant, it was still nice for me to hear such harsh criticism as it proves how great people our club has, with full of love and sensitiveness to the environment and nature. In this occasion, I think it is good to underline some points here to keep in our minds during offroading; As you all know, we are doing this hobby right in the lap of the Mother Nature. Thanks to wonderful nature and environment we have in the desert, we treat all our stress and bad feelings we accumulated during the whole week and get full of peace and energy to continue for the next! I think that is the reason many of us are doing this every week. But the desert is not ours; it belongs to animals, plants, rocks, sands, ... living and non-living landlords welcoming us for a couple of hours per week. As known, day by day we are losing wonderful terrains in the dessert due to new facilities occupying the nature for construction, energy, tourism, ... it is becoming more challenging to find good zones as time goes by. Therefore, the environment must have the first priority for our club as it is not possible to feed our passion without it. There is not too many, so we have to preserve the ones we have on hand. I believe that every member in our club has the same emotionality to respect the nature and environment and no one would never ever think of harming any living creature breathing in the desert. In order to do the right, I think we can list a brief guide here to consider for similar recoveries in the future; We should think about touching the plants only if there is no any other option. In our case, it was the last option as tugging or winching the car from the front was not possible in that inclined bowl. So ticked... Our bush was completely dry and dead already. So it was very easy to trim it out. But in the future, there may be some living plants blocking the way out in a similar event. Also, sometimes it may not be possible to know whether it is dead or alive, as the plants stays dry until suitable conditions come, and revive again. For such those, you can apply the same method as Paul and Pacific did, to cluster the branches together with a tugging rope (like hair tying) or gently bend it to one side. By doing so, you can make the plant volume smaller and open the way out without harming it. If tying is not enough to open a way, you can consider to trim some branches with shovels or knives to have more space. Pruning the plant doesn't kill it as its roots are still there and it can shoot forth new branches. In our case, we trimmed the upper part but its roots remained underground, meaning that it could be revived back if not dead completely. So in the future, you should deal with the upper branches of plants but shouldn't harm its roots (... it wouldn't be that much easy to pull a living root out already... also not necessary) I think these above can give a quick guide in your possible dealings with the plants for similar recoveries in the future. Happy to have environmentally sound club members, none of us allow any vandalism to the nature in our drives. As an engineer working in the environmental sector, I exactly know that real vandals are generally wearing suits and managing big companies destroying the environment with legally approved projects. Not easy to fight with, but we have to... See you all on the next!

@Alexander Holodny @Damien Ranjit @Daniel Rodas @Mohamad Anwer @Paul Zeitoun @Luca Bregni @bassel el rafei @Trekado @Alexanderrr @Pacific @Hisham Masaad Hi everybody. Here is the convoy order for tomorrow; @Hisham Masaad will take partial lead of the drive as per his LL program We will be using channel#1 on the radio See you all in the morning

it is ok @TT_Dubai, next time. Enjoy your night event 👍

Sure @Daniel Rodas. i am driving a pajero 3.5 LWB, one of the weakest cars offroading in the UAE so I had to collect many tips and tricks about climbs - will share them all tomorrow. But I agree with @Paul Zeitoun that Faya is not a comfortable dune to climb as it is full of cross tracks and big bumps. It is more suitable for heavy cars since they can reach to more momentum with less speed. I also wouldn't prefer to attempt through those parts but can check for some alternative tracks Skill development drives for long hill climbs can be arranged in the upcoming weeks in better terrains. You can follow those to test your skills on more comfortable dunes and without damaging your car

No worries, we will take you to the top somehow. Doesn't have to be fair

You may miss your Ram on Faya 😉

Hi @Daniel Rodas Seems you are driving two cars (RAM & Pajero). Which one are you planning to drive tomorrow?

Very well done my friend @Gregory. Keep it up💪