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Yeah, I remember my attempt... 182, all seats full, minus about 30g in the tanks (refueled later at Bakersfield). Damn thing barely rose off the ground (200ft/m tops), was sluggish as hell. Scared me to death.

Wait, there's a difference between want and need?

I am in communications with Dr Bruce after the last scare already, although had not brought this up yet. But this really is related to diabetes. Here is the exact quote from the letter: Due to your history of diabetes melitus controlled with insulin protocol, which state "at the first...

Heck, I'd go for N666DV :goofy:

No, nothing at all. No heart disease, history of such, or history in the family of the same. Do note however that I am type 1, not 2. I think it IS related.

I'm not, but I'm diabetic, so I think they want this because diabetics can develop heart disease more easily. They did send the full instructions with the slightly modified protocol, so I'll get a referral and get it done. Doesn't seem too complicated or particularly hard.

The FAA sent me a letter asking me to do one - apparently I should have done one as part of my renewal this year. I've never done one of these before. Do I have to go to an AME to do it? or can it be done anywhere?

Huh. I've been there a handful of times - on about half of them, there was at least one more plane in the pattern, once there were three (!) Maybe it's a time thing.

Ah, good ol' Donna.

Try Willows (WLW). Take off late morning and have lunch at Nancy's. It's a fun flight, with a couple of helpful challenges: 1) you will need to deal with several ATC handoffs; 2) you will have to exercise your strip-spotting skills to find WLW - it can be a little tricky the first...

Minot, I meant Minot. Sorry about that.

Entirely the opposite. The industry has been on a long downhill decline for a while now. What is going to save it is technology - eventually to the point where flying is fully automated, but that will take a while. In the meantime, the only way to make flying more accessibly is by making it...

iPhone6, sure - it's yet another piece of overpriced consumer-grade junk from Apple. But did check out the Blackphone yet?

I concur. It was one of my biggest worries, but for me anyway, I have no issues with both the headset (also Zulus) AND prescription glasses. I also don't find them particularly heavy or nose-pinching, but I may just be lucky in his regard. I don't even have to use the ear attachments.

Yeah, I have not experienced any disorientation, and I've now flown with this a cumulative hour or so, plus a couple hours on the ground. The only time when I had an issue was when I tried referring to my iPad in flight - the displays sort of "clashed" for me in an uncomfortable way. This did...

Fleetingly. Would not have helped here anyways :)

Interesting... I may want to try that some day. Sounds like fun. MarketLive.

Stuff is coming out for certain. Anything that works on Google Glass should work on the Moverio as well, as they are both Android devices. There is a small but growing market for Moverio specific apps (since it can do so much more than Google Glass).

No, not yet. My understanding is that it's not that they can't render it; the problem is related to the gyro drift, which can make this very unreliable. Once that is solved, it should be there.

$2000 for the beta tester kit - which includes the iLevil ($1200 MSRP) AND the Epson Moverio BT200 ($700 MSRP), as well as a lifetime subscription to their software (essentially for free, if you consider that everything ships to you free). I use them with prescription glasses. They sit...