I have played with FAR and Deadly reentry almost exclusively before 1.0 (owned it since early 2013), so I should be use to the basic concepts of heating and the new stock model. I love making SSTOs and have only played about 5 hours on 1.0 due to school constraints. I have tried the old way of going to 10-20km up and getting speed on the orbital m/s to 1600 but then I just kill my pod with the heat. I tried what I read on another thread about pitching to 45* and gunning into space, that seems to fix the heating problem but I run out of fuel before i can get into orbit. - - - Updated - - - I will definitely try that when I get the chance to. Thank you!