Andrei

Please remove me from the list

OK @Chaitanya D. Thank you very much for your answer. I am planning to have a guest with me in the car so I will be evaluating based on his opinion and either pull out from the drive or meet you there. Will let you know in advance. Cheers!

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Hi @Chaitanya D. Thanks for adding me to the list. It would be my first night drive. Are there any special notes when it comes to driving during the night in the desert?? Last time I've been in the desert during the night it was a bit of a pain and we ended up getting lost a bit...

Can you tell me more about the dynamics of this drive?  

@Kailas nice see you are a marshall. I completely forgot that I have some guests coming tomorrow and most likely we will have to wait for their covid test result before we exit the house. While I don't want to put anybody in danger or brake any laws, I find myself in a position where I cannot join. If there is nobody else on the waiting list, I would like to stay on the list, just in case the stars allign and I can join

@Jeepie, the drive was great and as a first fewbie for me, I liked the pace. It was scary at times but everybody was patient and supportive. Thanks a lot, great start of the weekend and awesome experience, like always, with you guys.

special thanks for @Tamas Hoffmann for his patience and guidance at times 

🎩

Hey Richard. Just trying to leave now but my battery is dead. I will try to see if I can jump start but it is unlikely that I will make it ☹️
enjoy and see you next time

1 hour ago, Rahimdad said:

Congratulations @Andrei on your promotion. Looking forward to many more drives with you.

Rahim, its been too long since we drove together. I miss your optimism and sense of humor.

@Asif Hussain. Thank you. I will pass this week. Next time 🙏

Thank you, gents for the messages and of course for your guidance during the newbie drives!! Appreciate evey piece of advice

Not quite sure I agree with how you dealt with this but you decide. OK. i will begin the graduation process

14 hours ago, Asif Hussain said:

@Andrei this drive is for Fewbie and above level only. I noticed that your offroad rank is Newbie. I am removing your name from RSVP and i am sorry for that.

Asif, I have done 10 trips and was planning to apply for Fewbie. This would probably get sorted by 18th. Please put me back on the list for the drive

I am dropping out as well due to personal reasons. Sorry for the inconvenience 

Nice one tonight!! Great thing we got out before dark!! looking forward to the next one. Please check the Gallery, I posted some photos from today

Great one @Frederic. Always a pleasure to drive with you. The drive was more technical rather than fun but we need some of those sometimes. 
We had quite a "colorful" crowd this time and it was nice to see the Discovery and F150 handling the dunes. @Wrangeld definitely needs to do something about that radio 😀. Richard, I might in Dragon Mart soon. Let me know if you want me to get you a Baofeng UV5r. They are around 70 aed and they do the job quite well...

I will be adding some photos to the gallery sometime soon

PS: It was sad to see some of the participants not wearing their masks specially towards the end of the drive when we had longer waits or we were inflating tyres. Are we still wondering if the virus exists?

6 hours ago, Probir Mukherjee said:

 Thanks for the drive @Frederic and support leaders .My learning from this drive has come at the cost of a broken bumper .When the convoy moved in the dark the car ahead moved away quicker than me .I tried to follow by sight as tracks were not visible so I ended up going over a ridge and hard fall .Luckily the jeep behind me saw this a veered left .I accept its my fault to drive by sight, I should have stopped and radioed for assistance to see the path. A suggestion for group in the dark is to move out slowly with cars following each others tracks to avoid what happened with me .Now for a police report , insurance claim and repairs .. is there any guidance for accidents in the desert to be reported to the police .Would appreciate.Thanks .

 

 

 

Frederic, looking forward to this drive. Just fixed a new clutch and eager to see how it works 😃

@Lorenzo Candelpergher - you are a champ. Thank you and Richard both for the help today and also to the rest of the gang for their patience. Meet you again soon in the sand ✌️

Thanks a lot for another nice drive! Always technical when we drive with you, @Ale Vallecchi!

check the gallery, I posted some photos I took 🤙

@Ale Vallecchi - can you please advise what time will be finishing? I have some plans for lunch tomorrow and wanted to know how to arrange...

thanks in advance

Hi, unfortunately I am not able to join anymore. I am happy though that I can leave my spot to somebody that is on the waiting list. 

Hi Ale! Looking forward to driving with you for the first time. Some of the names here seem familiar so we probably meet before so can't wait to see everybody again. 
this would be my first evening drive and I have a question: do we need special lights or the stock ones would do?

thanks

8 minutes ago, J J said:

@Andrei I was there when you had this so called discussion . Its fair to say the same person actually saved your vehicle from catching fire , hence saving you loads of money and he actually explained you in a calm way. Sometimes it is good to take experienced advices in a way that is for your own benefit and safety. My two cents.

@JJ, I assume you are talking about the getting stuck incident just before stopping 3 weeks ago. If you do, I did take advice properly. He was right on the manual handling and because I was exhausted and needed a break, I let him handle the car to get it out of there. I recognize the experience and respect it. I even started driving the car daily to work just to get back on track with the full clutch release, in line with his advice. I also thanked him and you both on the drive post. 

This is not the point and frankly discussions like this are not why I joined this group. I am telling you there is a problem in the way he talks to others and this post is the living proof it is not only me who saw/felt it.

You can choose to ignore or do something about it. 

Sorry to interject gents, but even without being part of this "problematic" drive I fully understand what the members are saying about the communication problems. 

I did not have an issue with a mask but had a discussion with the same person and hated with a passion the approach and decided never to join his events. 

We love the drives, we understand the rules and if anybody forgot a mask I am pretty sure it was unintentional and he is sorry but you also need to understand that if a few of us now raised the same issue, it is probably real. The Hall of Shame thing is an exact description of the approach and it is not only applied for CoVid-19 related. 
Let's try to chill a bit and apply some common sense both ways 

Peace out and see you in the sand

@Frederic - done and looking forward to another nice drive during the weekend 

PS: I posted a photo of you in the gallery for the last trip to Pink Rock