Sunny84

Cheers, @imranaasghar81 for a structured and detailed review  Pleasure meeting you in the sand! 

Thanks

When we started at 4pm the dashboard showed 48°C and felt the humidity in the air. After a informative briefing by @Gaurav we were off to route which was negotiating for the newbies & fewbies. 

@Yerem Davtyan this was your first time as 2nd lead and you did a great job, once you knew how to communicate you just did it naturally. Sharing the drive details is cherry on top.

@Brett Eicher you follow the lead very well too!!

@Lucas don't let the stuck and refusal worry you about the sport its just a part of this game. Once you get the hang of it, you will just keep wanting more of it.

@MChatt89 you powered away on the churned track and make it look easy..

@Vanessa8580 you surprised by joining us after doing you morning run and yet filled with passion and energy. As centre forward you made the drive fun for us at the back end.

@jeetu sharma you were calm and working thru the churned track which I created, my bad and kept up too the pace.

@Zulfikhar Naiyar your X bumper looks the best i have seen.

@salah2u thanks for the support and knowing you watching us from the back, kept the back end of convoy safe. Thank you.

Once again I would like to say thanks to all for making the drive special.  The last hour of the drive was fast and fun i enjoyed the most and the terrain was exciting and everyone worked as a team to make that happen.

Thank you and see you'll soon.

I would have given better synopsis of the drive but unfortunately I was told to hold the convoy in possession( with no one behind me)  for an hour to which I thought that i was pranked and left alone.🤣🤣🤣

Guy's,  pls check out the pictures in the gallery and you can add if you have any.

Thanks. 

@Jaro Tuzinsky hope you recover soon and put the geo to the test, @Mike.hope the spa gets you refreshed.

Missed both the pajero power!!

See you next time!👊

Congratulations @munkybizness well deserved and enjoy your new role. 👍👌

@Gaurav I'll be doing the morning drive with Brette and then the evening drive with you, I have kept it on waitlist till Thursday and if the drive is not full I will join in. But definitely count me in.

Thank.

Congratulations @Jad Moussalli you make the dunes look pile of dust!! Enjoy your new level. 👊👍.

Congratulations @Jaro Tuzinsky Always pleasure to drive with you and well deserved promotion 👍👌. 

20 hours ago, Ale Vallecchi said:

Dear Desertnauts.

In preparation for Saturday's drive, having said as much as possible in the drive's briefing, the most important information at the moment is how to reach the meeting point. Google map will send you on a long and windong route: to avoid it, please, arrive at Qudra Last Exit's ADNOC gas station, enter it (and top up your tank, as you are at it), and proceed through its exit. As soon as you have left the gas station's perimeter, you will find the meeting point to your left, on a dirt patch near a bike shop and a Thai restaurant. Park and deflate, as close to 13 (not more) or less, based on the type of tires you are mounting.

We'll enter the desert from a nearby track, and we'll have a technical briefing as soon as we reach the first dunes. Then we'll put theory to the test, practicing first straight crossings, then side sloping, and eventually smooth ridge riding and criss crossing. 

The convoy order will be the following (with Fewbies and above alternating to lead each Newbie, and tutor them through the training exercises and the drive):

@Adhir Saxena in Second Lead

@Yogesh Chaudhary at 3

@Nitin Mohan at #4

@Anirudh Dayma #5

@Mike. at #6

@Sunny84 #7

@Brette  at Center Forward

@Jaro Tuzinsky at #9

@george charbel #10

@Azam V2.0 #11

@JERINE_B #12

@Jad Moussalli #13 and

@munkybizness in Sweep.

Radio frequencies will be announced on the spot. 

Thanks a lot and see you on Saturday. Enjoy the end of the week. 

@Brette I've always driven behind you and followed for almost 4 drives.  this is the first time I'll be driving in front, it just feels weird🤣🤣🤣

14 hours ago, Mike M. said:

Thanks @munkybizness, I guess what this means is that we now have to find higher hills to tackle

Thanks @Jonny90! Well deserved for you as well! 

Thanks @Sunny84, same for you man! 
btw what happened to the all pajero photo? I didn’t see it posted 

It's in the gallery,  check it out.

Congratulations !!! @Jonny90 🙌

Congratulations @Mike M. you have come a long way as @Brette mentioned🤙. 

My best bet after the fuel prices is to switch to "Suzuki Jimny" I believe even that will cost 240 for a full tank.😜

Not 100% sure I can make it, hence I'm not RSVPing other commitments this weekend. Hope to see you'll in the following one. Have fun and see you'll next time.😭

Our deepest condolences for the passing of The President, His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan. May His soul rest in peace.🙏

May his soul rest in peace 🙏

30 minutes ago, Dr Tanveer Ahmed said:

Are there many speed cameras on this route?

Not worth it!!!

17 minutes ago, Stan Hassett said:

There are speed cameras but it's worth the effort. I was there last weekend and it was the most fun drive I've attended so far, beautiful sloping dunes, and not much soft sand, 100% recommended! I would love to join but I can't this week because of a friends birthday. Have fun guys and hopefully see you the following week...

Stan, 

Surely you will be missed!!! see you in the next drive!!

2 minutes ago, Mike M. said:

Something is wrong! it is 7:07 and the drive is not full yet. Maybe because of AD...

It's showing 1hr 45min drive for me at present and that is the reason everyone thinks it's far off but early morning should be an hour drive🤞.

@mike, you beat me to RSVP.😂🤣 see you there!!

On 5/1/2022 at 3:25 PM, Looper said:

Somehow this drive went on on and on and on. But me as a support role loved it, yes for some may be it was exceeded the expectations, as you would have come with regarding time of exit.

This drive exceeded the expectations of a newbie drive for me since @Islam Soliman pushed all of us to perform a notch above our capacity and beyond a standard newbie drive and gave us a taste of what’s in store as we progress, and believe me you are going to be better off with this experience than without. 

Overall the drive can be segmented into three. One to the Chimney, Second to the triangle also called little Sweihan, and finally exit. we had 3 drives in all. 

I have over 100 drives under my belt and let me confess that Chimney has always been an elusive drive, it is the second time I went there and that too in a newbie drive, (previous one was a refusal-less  intermediate drive). You guys were extremely lucky to be in this amazing drive. All drove quite well and except for one strait up crossing where we had 4-5 refusal (mind you again it was not an easy dune to cross you saw me some what flying while crossing) all performed exceedingly well. At this time we had option to extend the drive or exit. Of course we extended. I have never seen a drive exit when given an option to extend so we did. The top notch performance by all, I think gave our lead to push the drive a level a up.

Next we reached the triangle. This bit of drive was again a fantastic drive. All drive well we had some minor refusals which are expected while reaching the triangle. But the sand by this time was soft and unforgiving. Which resulted in a lot of immediate refusal as soon as we entered the triangle. Wisely we just exited at the entrance and moved towards exit. 

Final segment was the exit, yes we took some time to cross, but just remember that you guys performed exceptionally  to overcome all the obstacles and finish the drive without any issues.

Refusals are not issues, they’re practice for future higher level drives. I can easily recommend all of you to get a complementary promotion if that was a thing. Well done 👏 y’all for a fantastic drive. Yes it was long, yes it as tiring, but it was an Eidi (Eid gift) from @Islam Solimanto all of us and I thank him for this drive.

A big thanks to @munkybizness and @Mario Cornejo at the end supporting the drives in their majestic Y61s and @Emanuel as the second lead. 

@Sam K & @fayaz did not have any issues and you drive quite well.

@Jonny90 in the baby Y61 drive quite well and were good to follow instructions while you had some minor refusals.

@Sunny84 & @Amr Paple you had the most refusal but then I think you had the most learning of today’s drive experience. 

@Ignacio Quindos, @pramod, @Mahmoud Taha, @takeshi sobue y’all had a great drive. See you all soon back in another drive. 

Thank you @Islam Soliman @Looper @munkybizness for all the guidance and support. This was my 3rd drive and i have been blessed by this curse of being the first one to get stuck on every drive. With all the teaching and information shared for this drive will always be a learning experience very close to my heart. 

P.S was out of town so couldn't post earlier.

Hi Brette,

Was in Oman, no network and Internet so couldn't RSVP in time. If any dropouts let me know, will be on standby.  

Thanks. 

Hi Guy's, this is my second drive with carnity. Excited. LWB 2014 Pajero Grey 3.5 GLS. The car overheated 2 times on my first drive. Extra fan fitted and since it's evening should be better experience this time. 

Thanks

Hi @Brette I drive 2014 LWB Pajero all requirements checked and confirm.

P.S the website keeps crashing. 

Thanks.

Hi Brette,

This will be my first ride, looking forward to it. See you there.

Thanks.