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How critical is live weather to you and your missions? Maybe I'm just old school but I don't see the added value of Stratus. There are tons of sources for inflight weather.. HIWAS, EFAS, even ATC if there's an emergency. I'm sure it's much easier and convenient to pull up and look at on your...

Electronic, artificial hiss is a good way to describe it. I wouldn't say it's "very very quiet" in my case. It's almost as loud as the noise from the street and the computer. Maybe my ears are just more sensitive to that frequency. I don't know if I should wait and test it out in the airplane...

They feel great on my head, it's just this humming is driving me nuts though!

I can feel that the ANR is working since all the sound from the street is gone, but there is definitely a "fine static" hum which is always there even if it's hooked them up to my handheld radio. I can't notice it as much if ATC is talking, but anytime else it's there. I guess I'll just have to...

They're just plugged into my MP3 player right now. Batteries are the ones that came with it. I'll try to find a fresh pair.

Just got them in the mail, and trying them out at home. I turned the noise canceling function on, and I can still hear a very fine, high pitched buzz, almost like fine static on a radio. Is this normal? I've used QC-15s in the past, and when I had the noise canceling feature is on with...

Looks like it was a nice flight. How come you climbed all the way to 12.5k?

I always believed that the 200ft window gave you 100 ft above and 100 ft below your assigned altitude. :dunno: You guys definitely know more than I do.

I busted my altitude by 120 ft due to turbulence on an IFR flight this morning. ATC didn't say anything. I doubt they even noticed. There was no traffic around for miles. So the ALPA would recommend I fill out a ASRS form for this?

Your best bet would be to find an N registered aircraft to rent. That'd allow you to fly without any sort of conversion or extra paperwork. See here for more information http://flyinfrance.free.fr/Licences/licences.htm

My point was that legal IFR requires a few more things than a wet compass, a needle and ball, and airspeed indicator.

I'd hope all instrument rated pilots are able to do that in the case of an emergency with active assistance from ATC, but no one (i hope) would knowingly go up in the soup with that equipment, it's not even half of the required MEL for IFR.

Yeah the DME really is huge. I won't fly /U in actual unless it's a familiar route I've flown much and I have my iPad with foreflight. Just my personal minimums.

My commute is only 10 mi, but sometimes takes over a hour. I often entertain the notion of taking something like this to work http://www.gizmag.com/go/4628/

Yikes it's scary who we share our airspace with.

That's an everyday thing at Midway! Two of them were once holding short waiting for me to land! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8byGRsI9nE

The most interesting air traffic controller in the world

Agree with Cap'n Ron. edit: will save that commentary for the spin zone

Re: Be careful in Chicago for NATO summit Not any different than any other time Obama is in town...

Wow that was really touching. Here's a link to donate to their cause from their website if anyone else is feeling generous. https://sites.google.com/a/tamuseum.org/tomorr/donate