Crewdog

Surprisingly, our average landing speeds (Vref) are around 128-134, then we add 5 for cushion. If it's sporty we add 1/2 the steady state wind + the gust factor. Slowest I've ever seen was 129 kts with a light load, usually we're around the mid 130s. The 73NGs come in hotter, high 140-low 150s over the numbers. Those big flaps do a great job, I've done the circle to 29 at EWR and turned off with runway to spare, and I even floated it a little on landing. Boeing really did the 77 right. Godspeed to those we lost today, and BZ to the SFO CFR team.

Longtime simmer needs to learn repainting, I'm building a Progressive Aerodyne SeaRey and thought I could try out potential paint schemes using the First Class Simulations FSX SeaRey in FSX before comitting to the real paint scheme. Is Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 ok to use repainting in FSX, or should I use something else? (I've got DXTBmp.) TIA, Steve

Hi all, Long time simmer (back to the days of Atari 400 and Plato), never got into the nuts and bolts of making my own stuff. I recently purchased First Class Sim's Discover Arabia because it has a Progressive Aerodyne SeaRey, which I am currently building. I'd like to redo the panel to reflect my own aircraft, and use FSX (or FS9) to try out different paint schemes before I commit to doing it for real. The question is how hard/if it's at all possible, and if it's ethical? I will not be reselling the changes, just using it for my own personal enjoyment. I've never tried to repaint or redo a panel, is it something a casual simmer could easily learn, and if not, are there any expereinced people out there that would be interested in trying? TIA, Steve http://seareybuild.blogspot.com/

Grrrr..... Frackin' Newegg split my order, everything but the new case arrived today, case won't be here until Wednesday. Maybe I'll just set everything up in the old case, then transfer it over Wednesday.

Thanks for the feedback gang. It sounds like if I already had a SB it would not be worthwhile upgrading, and the debate is if the IB is worth the extra money. I've always followed the old adage of "Never fly the A model of anything.", but I'm not sure the Ivy really is an A model chip. For $30 more right now (according to newegg) I can get the 3579k instead of the 2500k, which doesn't sound like a bad deal. btw, the videocard is a Gigabyte GTX 260 overclock. I now it's not the best card around anymore, but it seems to work pretty good.

Finally moving up from my old Athlon, right as the Ivy is out and now am thoughly confused. I'm a casual simmer that's not into spending time tweaking for the last bit of OC speed, I'd just like a good, stable, fast system. Should I go with the Ivy i5-3570k or the Sandy i5-2500k? Rest of system: GIGABYTE GA-Z77X-D3H COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 EVO CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Win 7 Corsair 750w PS 2x WD 1Tb Caviar Black (sim on dedicated drive) Sorry, I'm on the road but I forget the GPU I'm using, but it's a decent unit, it's not in the budget to upgrade yet. TIA, 'Dog