Intermediate-Advance Drive on Sat. the 14th of April ‘2012.

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  • Ahmad Pervez
    April 8, 2012 at 4:41 pm #1183

    A fast paced Intermediate to Advance Drive in the Tricky Beautiful Red Sands of Sweihan Al Naqra Area.

    This drive is open only to Members with at least Two star, No exceptions please.

    The objective of the Star system is not to exclude any members but to match the skill levels of the participants to the level of the difficulty and this is solely to avoid any potential mishap which may be detrimental not only to the vehicle but may be injurious to the Participants life and limb as well.

    This Drive will commence from the overnight Camping spot, those who want to join the Drive but are not camping may join the group at the camping spot in the morning.

    The meeting point Co-ordinates will be communicated by SMS to the participants joining in the morning.

    The drive will commence at 0600Hrs. and conclude by approx. 0900Hrs.
    The Registration for both the drives is separate and has to be registered separately on the respective forums.

    Ahmad Pervez
    April 9, 2012 at 7:02 pm #16584

    So the List of the Participants for the Advance Saturday Morning Drive is

    1. Ahmed Pervez
    2. Khalil
    3. Satwinder
    4. G Kumar

    IceMan
    April 10, 2012 at 9:19 am #16597

    So are we going to be only 3 drivers in this drive …

    Common guys … where are you… This will be an exciting one …

    akppillai
    April 10, 2012 at 11:37 am #16604

    1. Ahmed Pervez
    2. Khalil
    3. G.Kumar
    4. Ashok

    Can not miss this drive :yesss: :yesss: :drive:

    Tiger
    April 14, 2012 at 7:40 pm #16668

    Already Ahmed Bhai and Khalil addressed this drive in the post for Fewbie to Intermediate… just adding a little more description since it was a wonderful drive, good experience and lot of fun. :-BD :-BD :-BD

    The convoy was of 4 cars – Khalil + Ahmed Bhai, Humayun, Ashok and myself. We joined Ahmed Bhai and Khalil at their previous day’s night camp by around 7.40am. We were late by 40 minutes to reach the camp site due to coordinate issues 🙁 . We had to call Ahmed Bhai for the exact coordinates, which was perfect to reach the spot 🙂 .

    We started moving by 8.00am with Khalil + Ahmed Bhai in the lead followed by Humayun, Ashok and I took the sweeper position. It was a fast paced drive with lengthy sand tracks and road sections to relax a bit after tacking the tricky soft dunes.

    Khalil was amazing in the lead with the expert advice of Ahmed Bhai with him :ymapplause: He had confirmed once again that it is never easy to follow the track laid by a Wrangler in heavy vehicles. Thereby the tracks were an extra tricky for us to tackle and I hope we all did a good job by maintaining the pace and no mishaps. :ymapplause:

    Ashok had to leave the convoy on half way due to personal commitments and we continued the journey in a convoy of 3 cars to the tall red dunes of Sweihan. This stretch was really a skill refreshing drive :yesss: . It required the right combination of approach + momentum + vehicle balance + power to move at ease.

    Again, it was a wonderful morning drive and the post rain climate was also too good. We all really enjoyed the drive. There were several struck ups to make the towrope also to be a part of this drive from Humayun, Ashok and once from the lead marshall as well 😉

    We finally hit the tarmac by 12.15pm at Alain – Abu Dhabi highway, proceeded to Sweihan petrol station, inflated and headed home.

    Thank you very much khalil for the excellent lead :thanks: :ymapplause: and special thanks to Ahmed Bhai for giving us a chance to experience this challenging track ^:)^ .

    Looking forward for many such technical drives in future. Thank you all once again for the good company and participation. :thanks: :drive:

    I will upload few pictures here with the post. Expecting the pictures from Khalil!!!

    Tiger
    April 16, 2012 at 8:21 pm #16694

    Name: To Sweihan Red Dunes
    Date: Apr 14, 2012 7:52 am
    Distance: 129.2 kilometers
    Elapsed Time: 3:02:57
    Avg Speed: 42.4 km/h
    Max Speed: 93.1 km/h
    Avg Pace: 1′ 25″ per km
    Min Altitude: 97 m
    Max Altitude: 264 m
    Start Time: 2012-04-14, 07:55 Hrs.

    Start Location: Latitude: 24º 45.2169′ N
    Longitude: 55º 18.5135′ E

    End Location: Latitude: 24º 28.2927′ N
    Longitude: 55º 20.4570′ E

    If anybody requires the track file by PM or email, please let me know.

    humsafar
    April 17, 2012 at 6:37 am #16695

    ^^^

    very Good Information, 😀

    IceMan
    April 17, 2012 at 4:37 pm #16698

    Few other pictures B-)

    Sweihan Desert Water Reservoir:

    Tiger
    April 17, 2012 at 5:35 pm #16699

    Thanks Khalil for the wonderful pictures :thanks:

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