Thomas Varghese

Please WL me for this drive. 2nd drive. Have joined the 1st Dec IM full day drive with you.

Dear @Wrangeld please WL me for 2nd drive.

dear @Wrangeld, What I meant was you are the king of technical dunes. Of course there are other factors like planning, team etc and most important is your experience. I only wanted @Prakash Anoop to participate in your drives and gain more experience in off roading.

@Prakash Anoop You are gradually gaining experience and I could see the difference today. 3 things you have to take care and you and your jeep will conquer the sands like a maestro. One of the best advice I got from @Carnity club during my 1st drive - from the famous @Frederic is always take care to gain higher ground whenever you climb up from the beginning. You can't change your climb up angle once you are already committed to the approach angle. You can't turn your wheels into the climb slope once you feel your approach angle was wrong and you are losing ground. Obey the car and don't make it fight gravity. DANGEROUS. Come down and reattempt if needed. 2nd most important advice was from @Foxtrot Oscar the ridge riding queen. Whenever you ride a ridge try to be in the middle of the ridge by having both your front wheels on either side of the ridge. This way you will be in more control of the steering movements of the car. Flatten the crest of the ridge and don't bother about the underbelly of your car as its protected by bash plates. 3rd advice was from Professor @Ale Vallecchi. When driving on soft sands deflate to 11psi which is roughly 1/3 of your normal tire pressure. These 3 advices and implementing them correctly made me a better offroader. I was grumbling inside when @Ale Vallecchi asked me to deflate further down to 11psi and was thinking Ale was about to destroy my tires. After almost an year into off roading I'm thankful he gave me the courage to deflate to that tire pressure. Hope you drive with @Chaitanya D & @Wrangeld to hone your technical dune driving skills more. @Wrangeld is the DCT champion because technical dune driving is his strength.

@Shaaz Sha & @Jeepie you made a very interesting drive in the morning. Interesting in the sense all the drivers in the convoy responded very well. Area 53 is a very entertaining and learning area. I had a doubt we wouldn't be able to drive much but we did 38.1km in the Badayer area which speaks of the skill level of the drivers. We had our minor share of refusals but all overcome in the fastest possible time as drivers responded well to the instructions relayed over the radio. Not 1 pop out in those soft sands. Everyone in the convoy did well and I look forward to future drives with them. @Shaaz Sha appreciate the 10 minute break you allowed us to relax, socialize, take pictures, have a cup of coffee, bio break. I hope my assistance to all of you was appreciable. I'm thankful you executed the maneuvers exactly as instructed and cleared the refusals. I don't remember any rerouting of the convoy because of anybody not able to make the challenge @Shaaz Sha gave. Feeling so satisfied to see the new comers learning fast. The drive had all the ingredients for a fewbie drive. High dunes, slide sloping, ridge riding, criss crossing, testing your abilities in soft sand. I hope all you have started to realize the potential of the cars you drive and more important your capabilities as a driver. Kudos to @Sudhanva Sonawane, @Salim Akhtar, @Prakash Anoop, @Pierre de Maigret, @Gregory, @Alexander Holodny & @Daniel Yang for challenging the lead shaaz for more adventures. The lead can only drive if the convoy responds well and today all of you did that. The well done messages over the radio was not simply hollow messages but genuine in a challenging terrain with the experience you have now. You all did well. Thanks to @imranaasghar81 for only instructions when it was needed the most. I'm thankful to you buddy for trusting me with the instructions for the fewbies. Hope you enjoyed your role as CF even though your rope couldn't come out of its bag. Todays drivers were good and spared you. Driving with @Jeepie after a long time and its always a pleasure seeing her drive that jeep like a morning walk in the park over those dunes. Hope she enjoyed the drive too as I could see her face was happy after the drive.

@Lorenzo Candelpergher I need to cancel my desert drive with you as an urgent meeting has come up for me tomorrow morning. Kindly excuse me.

Please waitlist me 2nd drive

Please WL me for 2nd drive