Humayun Ghias

Kudos to@MMansoorto drag our wounded comrade out of the battlefield. Once we were back to our safe house(ad noc Station) I saw an opportunity to inflate using the house services. Soon I realized that it's easier to use one's own resources to inflate rather than depend on the ad noc services.

While I was almost done inflating, I saw @Islam Solimanwalking over and one of the first things he said to me was thank you for your patience. His comment caught me off guard a bit, as I always have been in awe of his patience and calm demeanour. In my haste, under my breath, I said; I'm only following your example. 

It's been an amazing drive today. It was truly an exploration! I got to see one of the most awkward angles to get recovered from and one of the most twisted pop outs as well! We also got to witness Davie's one of a kind jack in action while giving a cat (read jackal) a ceromonial burial. 

For me it was mostly a different group of amazing people on the drive today, apart from a few that I have had the pleasure to drive with before. @Wernothanks for your second lead and @munkybiznessfor the sweep. 

I look forward to driving with each one of you again! Cheers 

Hi @Shaaz ShaThank you so much for the amazing drive! I really enjoyed my first drive under your command. I liked the long hill climbs and the last technical climb before we ended the drive. 

This was my tenth intermediate drive and I feel i have come a long way! 

Thank you @JeromeFJand @marksfor your help throughout the drive. 

Thank you to the rest of the drive members and see you soon! 

4 hours ago, Hisham Masaad said:

Dear @Humayun Ghiasyou and your family are welcome. However, since it FB+ drive, and depend on your family, hope they will not be disturbed, which will make you disturbed, and loose attention to the drive, causing usual refusal, stucks, and missing tracks. Hope all will enjoy

Good morning @Gregory, being weekday drive, we usually make it 3 hours. Will try to stick to the program. See you in sand. BTW, I am working as well 😀, will go office afternoon.

Hi @Hisham MasaadI'm not sure how well they can cope with desert driving and not sure if they have motion sickness. Therefore to avoid delays for the convoy I'll remove myself from the drive.

Have a great drive!

Hi @Hisham Masaadlooking forward to the drive. My family is visiting and so will bring them along as well. 

What an amazing drive! Thank you @Islam Soliman

@JeromeFJand the rest of the convoy.

I liked the convoy order as it allowed me to be the second lead, this was only my second time doing that. 

Being at the back usually doesn't give you many chances to practice tugs, can you imagine I did a tug for the first time today eventhough this was my ninth intermediate drive. Therefore, I particularly enjoyed this drive. 

3 hours ago, Zixuan Huang - Charlie said:

Thank you @Foxtrot Oscar for this yalla drive in a Sunday afternoon, I indeed needed the concentration that I wouldnt have in the morning. And I haven't had this thrilling pace for a long long while. Great IM start, and I found many places of improvement.

Thank you @Looper and @Russ for supporting the drive, flawless as always, and @Arman for a clean 2nd lead, that surely helped me alot driving behind, hope you and Aisha reached home safely.

Really impressive to see @Humayun Ghias driving the probably the "stockiest" family friendly y62 in IM drives, even with stock skid plate! 

@Zed thank you for staying with me solving the limp mode, I figured out later on from Thomas' post, but really appreaciate that you stayed with me for extra half hour!, Nissan OBD is really annoying, have to find out which reader reads Nissan now.

My past fastest drive was 22kmh average moving speed, 27kmh is a new record ! wow.

Haha the "stockiest" y62 around! Probably not the right thing to do! But it has gotten me quite far. I've had no issues so far, I just try to be careful coming down from dunes and watch my speed while doing so. 

Thank you @Foxtrot Oscarfor an amazing drive. Probably one of the fastest ones I've had so far.

Thank you to @Russ @Arman @Looper and the rest of the convoy as well. Looking forward to driving with you all soon! 

Thank you @Ale Vallecchifor yet another amazing drive and playlist

I had just returned from Pakistan and was planning on joining a drive next weekend when I saw that I just maybe able to get a spot in Ale's convoy. I got lucky and was able to join. 

I really liked how the convoy kept moving like a tight pack. I also enjoyed the sweep position. 

Looking forward to more drives with all of you! 

Hi @Ale Vallecchisorry this is last minute but I'd love to join if it's not an inconvenience. 

I'm also a patrol user and I drove it stock until the intermediate level and I love it. If your budget allows, having a dedicated off-road vehicle might be better. In my case it was not possible. 

I trimmed the rear bumper, got 18inch rims so far. Still need the bash plate though. 

Would have loved to join but unfortunately not in the country, will definitely join the next one 

Wowzers! Congratulations @Russwell deserved!! 

Congratulations! 

Congratulations! You truly deserve it

22 minutes ago, Gaurav said:

Gentle reminder

Everyone please share your full resolution videos (gopro, dashcam, etc.) whatever you have taken during the drive with wetransfer on my email: [email protected].

We plan to add these drive videos to the master video of the whole event.

@Daniel Rodas @Werno @Javier Lucero @Zed @Alexander Alcala @Mario Cornejo @M.Seidam @Humayun Ghias @varunmehndiratta @Hisham Masaad @Anoop Nair @Niki @JamesThorn @Ruan van den Heever @Chaitanya D @Foxtrot Oscar @Lorenzo Candelpergher @Tbone @Jeepie @sertac @Asif Hussain @Kailas @JeromeFJ @Bernard Kalaani @Looper @Alexanderrr @Mus_hus78 @Daniel Yang @Wrangeld @GauravSoni @Matt.T @Warren Flay @Ale Vallecchi @Mohamad Anwer @Frederic @Srikumar @Jorge Stepniak Felippe @Rizwanm2

Hi @GauravI'm afraid I don't have any footage, was planning on buying a gopro but didn't end up getting it. 

Congratulations! 

Congratulations! 

Good going @JeromeFJcongratulations! 

Congratulations! 

Congratulations! 

Congratulations! 

@Lorenzo Candelpergherhope it gets fixed soon! Looking forward to joining your drive! 

@Lorenzo Candelperghermy sincere apologies, I have a commitment that has come up which I can't get out of. Sorry I won't be able to join this drive.

Hope everyone has an amazing one! 

Congratulations! 

I would be interested to know which insurance company provides a good off road cover? Most of the fine print says there shouldn't be a competitive event happening. I am assuming carnity is not considered as that. 

You guys have summed up the drive quite well! Thank you @Islam Solimanfor yet another very exciting drive! Great second lead by @JeromeFJand sweep by @Russ

It's so true @Rawadalmost all of us started around the same time, I really like how all of us have come so far.

I enjoyed the drive and today was a big reminder to get my bash plates installed. It seems I cannot delay that any longer. 

I've really started seeing a massive difference in the cars performance with the new high profile tires, there's so much that I can do now.thank you @Chinthaka Ruwanfor sharing the videos and @Ranjan Daswith his aed 500 a tug winch 🤣