Engine

Background:

• I've always been interested in flying and I happen work at a company that reimburses part of my PPL.
• I decided to start taking lessons in April. Due to my work schedule and other things that have come up I'm not able to fly as frequently as I'd like but I still try.
• On Monday I went in for my 4th lesson in a Cessna 150.
• Engine was apparently brand new with ~25 hours on it.
• Had ~11 gallons of fuel for our planned 1 hour flight.
• Had ~5 qts of oil in preflight. It looks dirty and grayish like pencil led to me. CFI explained this was because the engine was new and had mineral oil in it.

My recollection of the events:

Please understand this is how I remember things but since I didn't have a camera I can't give you the ground truth.

• We had just wrapped up the lesson and were coming in to land
• Instructor had made a comment that there was a lot of wind today. 15 knots
• My instructor took control when we entered the traffic pattern at 800-900 ft AGL
• Everything was fine until after we started the turn from downwind to base.
• We had 20 deg of flaps
• Engine starts sputtering. I hear my instructor say "Oh SHIT". I see the propellor stop and I ask him if it quit. Couple seconds later he says it quit.
• I start semi-panicking. I breathe really heavy and thoughts are going through my mind like oh my god is this really happening; is this serious; am I going to make it.
• A few more seconds pass and I ask "Are we going to make it?". I don't quite remember at this point whether I meant the runway or our lives. A couple more seconds pass and my CFI says "we are not going to make it." I'm pretty sure he was talking about the runway, but I took it both ways at that point.
• I accept that we are coming down and not making the runway. We are going land in a dirt field across the street from the runway. There are a couple seconds left before we touch down and I ask "what should we do on impact?". My CFI says "Just brace." And so I do.
• We hit the dirt and here I have brief moment of calmness thinking ok at least we are down. But I notice we are rolling a bit too fast to stop before dirt field ends and road starts.
• I start thinking oh god I hope there will not be a car passing to t-bone us when we get onto this street.
• We keep rolling and before the dirt field ends and the curb starts theres U-shaped dip. We go through that dip like a roller coaster, down then up then down over the curb and slam into the road and scrape forward

Why YSK: By buying old service manuals, repair manuals, and service documents, you familiarize yourself with the basics of how stuff works, which is near half of the training right there for most people. Old manuals are detailed, with pictures and even examples of wear and tear, so you know what to look for. And they are cheap, less than $30!

By learning this from just a few cheap, old books, you can then go in and ask for employment, telling the hirer what you've already done to prepare. Formal training in a school is often not necessary for mechanics, only asking you to buy some tools (also available cheaply on auction sites). You can even purchase car parts off these sites so you can practice! Mechanic shops needing people are enthused by a person doing even a small amount of prep, and often do not require experience to start other than trying to fix your own car.
(I am speaking of actual auction sites and auction houses along with more known sites like Ebay).

Edit: I am mostly referring to small mechanic places, from oil change places to mom and pop repair shops, for kids just starting out. Obviously they train people from there, I am talking about getting a first basic job in the industry.

I Tested the new Temporal Super Resolution (TSR) upsampling method of Unreal Engine 5 Early Access using the Ancient Valley demo. Dis some comparisons to UE's original TAA upsampling and naiive upscaling as well. Results below:

Test System

All of the comparisons were run at 1440p on my home rig in UE5 editor with Epic quality assets (unfortunately I don't have a 4K monitor):

• Radeon 6800
• Ryzen 3700X
• 32GB of DDR4 @ 3600CL14

Video comparisons:

Youtube (blurrier but with chapters)

Vimeo (better quality, but no annotations)

At 0:52 I change from 50% (720p) TAA to TSR, night and day difference in not only quality but also temporal stability.

Image comparisons and Performance:

(only .jpg for now due to imgur conversion on upload. Will replace with .png's tonight)

• Side-by-side collage (added in a downsampled 2880p version for good measure, to see if it makes any major difference to geometry due to how Nanite operates)
• Full imgur gallery (with othe scenes as well)

**How is this