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Is it worth going to one of these if you're years out from affording a kit project? I've been thinking about a KitFox build and they have a fabric workshop early next month for $350 which sounds exciting but then I remember that just the kit alone costs more than my car... then another 5k for the firewall foreward kit, 20k for rotax, and it just keeps going on. Anyway, I guess I'm wondering if these classes are more for someone that knows they're building soon or what?

So as the title says, I upgraded (or so I thought) to an AMD card and took a big FPS hit. I'm getting 10-20 FPS in situations that would be 25-30 on the nVidia Card. Other games seem to have a large improvement in FPS with the new card. Any AMD owners that have advice on this?

Some other pertinent info:

• Radeon Crimson 15.11 driver panel thing, 15.30 video card driver

• i5 2500k 3.3ghz overclocked to 4.5ghz and 8GB RAM, X-plane on SSD

• Removed nvidia drivers with DDU

• Disabled all plugins (this can gain me 4 or 5 FPS)

• Disabled compressed textures (this also gained me some FPS and the card has the VRAM to handle it)

• Deleted X-plane preferences file, no improvements noticed.

On a high pressure low wind day, a prescribed burn can cause significant obscuration by filling up low lying valleys and ravines with smoke over a wide area. The one I flew near today didn't effect me but I listened to Oakland Center getting reports from pilots that ran into unexpected smoke cover from another prescribed burn and ZOA knew nothing about it. The prescribed burn I flew near changed quite a bit 1 hour later on my way home as it spread out and the smoke got pushed lower. That's fine and makes sense, but it's not forecasted, the government knows about it ahead of time (my brother was working the burn with USFS) and now the underlying airport is IFR. This reminds of the practice of

I'm completely new to iPhones but I've done some ROM flashing & rooting to various android phones. My girlfriend's iPhone 5c just dropped all cellular capability one day, but wifi still worked. Apple recommended that we update to iOS8 and we tried, but this bricked the phone because the baseband chip is toast. It then tries to roll back to iOS 7, I assume, but can't because the baseband is toast...

So this phone will never work as a phone again and I don't really want to take it apart and bake the chip because we don't need it anymore. Is there a way I can use custom tools and firmware to bypass the baseband steps during the firmware flashing? If so, what would you reccomend?

Thanks

I'm upgrading from my first kayak and came across an Eddyline Nighthawk 16‘ for $550. It looks like a good deal to me if everything checks out ok. I'm 6'2" 185ish but coming from a 10.5 (albeit much wider) kayak. Any thoughts? I will be looking at it soon.

On the highest peak of Altis, with a loaded MH-9, you'll torque out if you try to takeoff without using translational lift. The helicopters fly way different depending on the # of passengers, which adds a really cool dynamic to gameplay. People are used to just powering out of any spot, but now when you assess that LZ, you have to decide if you'll be able to get back out with a full load. The wind also factors into this because you'll need translational lift when you're heavy. This really ups the skill/experience level required to have a successful mission with helicopter landings and extracts.

I know that there are coherent cables used for boroscopes, endoscopes, etc. but as I understand, these cables are composed of multiple strands that are arranged so that the fiber strands are in the same place on both ends.

I'm trying to wrap my head around why something like a 5mm solid core (1 thick strand) cable couldn't do the same thing. I'm assuming that they cannot or they would be used for that purpose already.

I'm new to 3D modeling and blender. I accidentally went into the "Save As" dialogue screen instead of save so I just chose the original filename and location and hit save. Well the "save as" menu window was still active when I closed blender. Now it goes straight there every time I open my blend and the "back to previous" button just closes the program.

What the hell do I do? I don't see any way to exit this window and get back to the normal workspace.

http://i.imgur.com/Aa7Yi4f.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ec/C-FFXO_Cessna_Skywagon_II_185_(C185)_03.JPG

I'm trying to model a Cessna 185 in Blender that I hope to put into the game Arma3. I've tried a few other aircraft but always end up quitting for months out of frustration whenever I get to the windows. I really need some pointers on how to go from the flat surface I have now to the line I have traced.

Any help is greatly appreciated.