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by pdelbarba 9y ago
All of the ARMA games have had this feature if you bother to enable it. It's not usually seen in the popular online "maps" though
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
Most of these chips can actually be flashed no problem. They just have a fuse/bit that disables read over JTAG and to disable that you have to zero the entire device memory. This means that you can put whatever firmware on that you w
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
I have a hard time believing that the artillery would ever get the chance. There's maybe ten square miles where they could place artillery to successfully bombard Seoul. The entire area could easily be destroyed or remotely turned in
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
Am I the only one who thinks the X-32 got shafted in the JSF project? It's a pretty good example of keeping a design simple.
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
Most are not especially short takeoff but many can pretty much land vertically
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
Statistically speaking light aircraft are closer to motorcycles in terms of fatalities. On the bright side though, you're much less likely to me maimed in an aircraft accident :) When people get upset about the FAA's safety stanc
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
A 550hp PT6 turboshaft engine (pretty much the smallest one you'll see in use) is around $300k new. OEM pricing on an IO-360 180hp piston engine is about $30k. Turbocharged engines in the same hp range as the PT6 can be had for aroun
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
They will babble about 4 hour flight times (and not mention that they're talking about 4 hours at <50kts) but at the end of the day, everyone has to contend with the same battery tech. All current airframes in the category are look
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
You're pretty close. Basically they used to be about the price of a nice car, but it become fashionable to sue the pants off everyone who was involved with the manufacture of the airframe if it was involved in a crash, fatal or not.
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
In this case, the students will likely be doing pattern work in these aircraft which involves repeated takeoff and tochdown. In particular they will often do a touch-and-go where the aircraft maintains forward speed and takes off again. I
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
I actually just emailed sunflyer about pricing since that's the biggest factor initially. I will update if they get back to me. I suspect that they'll be relatively inexpensive compared to a new C172SP @ around $330,000. Mainte
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
For the record, this is not new. Pipistrel has had a relatively successful electric trainer for a couple years now based on one of their popular LSA airframes. The only catch is that at this time I don't believe it has yet achieved F
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
At this point it's mostly certification cost and liability insurance cost that's keeping the tech back. You can easily modify modern aircraft engines to be more reliable and efficient (PMAGs) but you need an STC (certification pr
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
Electric vs ICE trainers won't have much in the way of differences. The main procedural differences will be engine start (just follow the checklist) and low power conditions where carb heat is required (becoming slightly less common n
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
No, it rotates the same way it always rotates, but being driven by the passing air instead of driving the passing air, so to speak. Every goddamn time HN gets an aerospace post....
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
Easier said than done, but wake up an hour earlier and go for a run. Don't need to kill yourself, just go outside or to the gym or something.
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
I don't think you need a $500 buy in. Most register for less than a dollar, so maybe a fee in the $20-50 range? You won't discourage everyone but the number of domains squatted will be a fraction of the current number (something
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
I ride by bicycle all over the land of the Model S and have had no issues hearing the various EVs wandering around. Are you speaking as a pedestrian/cyclist/driver? What kind of speeds are people driving at?
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
I don't buy the noise argument. Above a certain speed, wind and tire noise far exceed ICE noise. The pickups I've seen are mostly due to the use of course off-road tires that buzz as they go down the road and the motorcycles won
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
I don't understand why domain squatting in general isn't considered more of a problem. I tried a couple different times to get a .link domain for my blog and just about anything short/meaningful on the obscure tlds are taken
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
Pilot. I rent 1970s aircraft so it's nice to have a backup set of avionics. I should mention, this is also a fun thing to have on airline flights as you can see the route you're flying, other planes around, speed, altitude, where
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
Not permanently mounted flight hardware, no TSO required. Only certification required for that would be basic FCC ISM transmission stuff, the same as your router. If they used a precertified module (like most internet of shit devices) you
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
I use one of these (in a way) whenever I fly. I have an RPi running Stratux with a WAAS GPS reciever and two modified RTL-SDR dongles, one for each ADS-B band. It then rebroadcasts all this info over a wifi network that my ipad picks up a
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
Fair. Personally I'd prefer they halve the lots and put in two 300k 1.5 - 2k sqft houses so even more people can live where they want.
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
I live in Colorado and am constantly perplexed at the presence of blocks full of million dollar houses down the road from hundreds of acres of cow pasture (not parks mind you, actual cow pastures that smell like cow shit). Edit: These are n
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
I'm a little confused why solar isn't mentioned. Peak temperature and peak solar flux are highly correlated so this isn't some weird grid storage problem. Tighten standards for new systems and construction to be a little mo
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
Currently live in Colorado where the highs are regularly in the 90s. Turn the house fan on at night for a couple hours, cool everything off, then close all the doors and windows during the day and everything is perfectly comfortable. When
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
And applied to aviation you get the Piasecki PA97
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
Except when said AM transceiver is inside an airplane, then it's thousands of dollars :P
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
I've used both marine (FM) and airband (AM) radios. My marine experience was in a relatively uncluttered environment (Cleveland) so take this with a grain of salt but I found that you rarely had people talking over each other in that

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