Kailas

@Aisha S meeting time is 6 pm. I will be shortly putting out the convoy list

WL 1. @Anoop Nair 2. @Naveen Raj

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 (All Levels) When: 06 August 2021, Friday. Meeting time: 6.00 PM (SHARP - Without any exceptions) Meeting Point: Murquab - https://goo.gl/maps/TV9NpjboewyCZ1GH9 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, willingness to learn and your own compressor for tire inflation. Approximate finish time: 9.30 - 10.00 PM Limited Spots Available: Limited to 10 cars only. RSVP will close on Thursday - 2 PM. 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

Tried that but, its not disabling and asking to service the vehicle. Surprisingly I collected my car yesterday after service from Jeep. Somehow managed today’s IM Qudra drive with traction on, but had many stucks/refusals as rpm was being restricted with traction on. I wouldn’t try it at Sweihan. Those are humongous dunes and with traction on, vehicle wouldn’t climb. I doubt if they are really good without their camera/ stunt/ recovery crew 🤣

Dear @Mario Cornejo @Josh T. @Zed @Naveen Raj @Mus_hus78 Unfortunately the drive has been cancelled. Due to short notice, no other lead were available. @Mario Cornejo would have already gone through the pain of PCR requirement to get to Sweihan. Will make it up for this some time later.

Dear @Mario Cornejo, @Josh T., @Naveen Raj @Mus_hus78 @Zed Unfortunately my car is not desert ready. Today during my Intermediate drive, the traction control is mot disabling and is prompting to take to service centre. Thus I will not be able to join you all tomorrow. I am checking if any other leads can step in for the drive. I will keep you all posted. Thanks

Good evening all, Here’s the convoy list for tomorrow . 1. Kailas-L 2. @Goutam-SL 3. @Thomas Varghese 4. @Arman 5. @Niki-SW We will be on channel 3. We should have a fun drive with short convoy. See you all tomorrow morning at 4:45am. cheers

No issues at all. Small convoy is definitely going to be fun.

Good job @Zed. This post is already tempting me to try one of these for my upcoming Sweihan drive this Saturday.

Hi @varunmehndiratta, we will be starting from south solar park. The same place we explored couple of weeks back. Without going further deep like last time, we will be heading crossing towards ghantoot section and explore the area.

Current Waiting List: 1. @Naveen Raj 2. @Goutam 3. @Zed

Hi @Josh T., the RSVP will be live exactly at 7:00 pm today

Good afternoon all, First of all, thank you all for reaching on time. Without any delay we were able to start the drive. I was blessed to have @Goutam, @GauravSoni & @Darren Brooke in the drive. Having them, I never had to worry about refusals & stucks and it carefully executed by them. I could relax and take care only on the lead part. As we had new fewbies @Ishraque & @Luc Khaldoun , we began the drive at a newbie level. As we kept moving, I began increasing the level of difficulty. At one point we even entered a slightly technical area and came out without any issue. We had very littlie refusals and stucks. Then it was time to get hands on ridge riding and criss crossing. We began by finding a nice dune and practicing one by one. Every one comfortably did these exercise. Then we did the same exercise on the move. The convoy did not have any difficulty. At this point I was confident to step up the level, and from there we tackled all the ridges and criss crossed where ever we got a chance until the finish point. @Goutam, thanks for the nice writeup, saves me from putting up the stats. @Rawad you were a fantastic SL, your response time was really good. I could cross some difficult dunes knowing you would exit or re route if anything goes wrong. Well done mate. @Ishraque it good to see you adapt quickly to JKU from ford expedition. @Luc Khaldoun good to see you handling the beast without any issue. I'm sure you were never shy on gas. Again to @Ishraque& @Luc Khaldoun, you both drove like experienced fewbies. Well done. @Anoop Nair, its my first time driving with you. Managing a manual vehicle is not very easy, you did well. @Adhir Saxena, With the number of drives I had put you in the back. I am sure you would have faced some challenges like churned sand. But you had no issues at all. Well done mate. @Darren Brooke thanks for your support on sweeping. Hope your vehicle is alright. Cheers. See you all soon.

IMPORTANT NOTES FOR CROSSING THE BORDERS: Dubai, UAQ, RAK, and Sharjah residents will need to procure a valid negative PCR test (max 2 days old) prior to entering Abu Dhabi. You will also need to install the Al Hosn App and the result should reflect in your app that you have received a PCR test within the last 48hrs. (SMS or printout will not be accepted at the border. Once you have been vaccinated more than 28 days ago, the negative PCR test will offer you 7 days multiple entry to Abu Dhabi. There are many test-centers in each Emirate (drive through or via appointment). If in doubt please ask on the drive topic so we can assist you further. 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. MUST READ AND TOTALLY AGREE: COVID19 Precautions Ban from Carnity Off-road Club Two Way Radio Guidelines Drive Details Level: Fewbie and above When: Saturday, 17 July 2021 Meeting time: 4:45 AM (SHARP - Without any exceptions) Meeting Point: TBA Shortly 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: 9:00 AM P.S.S. Make sure you fill up your gas tank at the nearest Petrol Station: If you are coming from Abu Dhabi: ADNOC Al Khatam (975) If you are coming from Dubai: ADNOC Sweihan (960) LIMITED SPOTS AVAILABLE Limited to 10 cars only. RSVP will close Thursday 3pm. 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 THE CALENDAR

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. MUST READ AND TOTALLY AGREE: COVID19 Precautions Ban from Carnity Off-road Club Two Way Radio Guidelines Drive Details Level: Intermediate Level and Above When: 16 July 2021, Friday. Meeting time: 04:45 AM (SHARP - Without any exceptions) Meeting Point: https://goo.gl/maps/ymuAZNGhHFUtKch49 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: 09:00AM THIS IS A COMPRESSOR ONLY DRIVE. WE WILL STARTING AND ENDING THE DRIVE AT THE SAME 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 cars only. RSVP will close on Thursday - 2PM. 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 THE BELOW CALENDAR

@GauravSoni, its a short convoy. So you can join. I will add you to the list

Good evening all, Please find the convoy list for tomorrow's drive. Please note the starting time has been updated to 4:45 AM. 1. @Kailas 2. @Rawad-SL 3. @Ishraque 4. @GauravSoni 5. @Luc Khaldoun 6. @Anoop Nair 7. @Goutam-CF 8. @Adhir Saxena 9. @Darren Brooke-SW We will be on channel 1. See you all tomorrow. Cheers!

Hi @Paul Zeitoun, can you please let us know, if you will be joining the drive. Thanks

@Adhir Saxena, please join the drive.

Good evening, First of all, thank you all for showing up for the drive on time. The plan was to attempt some extreme criss-crossing in the south solar park area and head to little Sweihan area. This took most of our drive time as we had many refusals and stucks. Then as we entered little sweihan and we faced a pop out on @Ashok chaturvedi's FJ. This pop out fix took a lot of our time as the vehicle was in a pocket. Once we fixed the pop out and found a couple of bowls, @Thomas Varghese' Xterra started over heating and was not in a position to continue driving. After giving enough time for Xterra to cool down, we brought it back to nearest Sabkha ,exited @Thomas Varghese and ended the drive. Unfortunately we were not able complete the little sweihan section as time was already past 9:30 AM. I could find that many had issues while criss- crossing, I understand that this was challenging as we were trying to criss cross sharp ridges mostly at the tallest section. @marks- Excellent SL & thank you for your support, especially during stucks and pop -out fix. @Gok Krish, @Lawrence_Chehimi & @Goutam, I don't recollect you guys having any issue. Well done guys. @Archibald Jurdi-It was my first time driving with you. You managed your TJ very well. Few refusals, but you managed to quickly self recover. @Ashok chaturvedi- You drove well. In terms of pace, you were a bit slow. Had to slow down or pause at times for the yellow FJ to catch up. @Thomas Varghese had refusals and stucks. Self-recovery attempts were was not successful at times, later on we were able to learn that couple of tyres were running at 17 psi. This was something you should have checked out early when initial self recovery attempts were digging your wheels. @varunmehndiratta also had refusals and stucks. You are still having issues when crossing the dune straight. I have seen you getting crested several times in my past drives. Your should not take your foot from accelerator until your engine has crossed the ridge. @Dodi Syahdar thanks for sweeping and helping with recoveries. One crested situation when criss crossing, which with some shoveling's was able to self recover. Thanks @Thomas Varghese for the pictures. Stay tuned, I will be posting a drive through the same area some other time. Cheers!

Good evening all, Here's the convoy list for tomorrow. 1. Kailas - L 2. @marks-SL 3. @Gok Krish 4. @Archibald Jurdi 5. @Ashok chaturvedi 6. @Lawrence_Chehimi 7. @Goutam 8, @Thomas Varghese 9. @varunmehndiratta 10. @Dodi Syahdar-SW We will be following buddy recovery system. Radio channel will be 4. Please note that the start time is 4:45 AM. See you all soon. Cheers!

Sure @varunmehndiratta. Pls add your self to RSVP.