Lancair pilot; descending out of 17;500 ft VFR reports encountering IMC while on board equipment (ads-B; foreflight and NOAA) indicated VMC should prevail.

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Attributes
ACN	1151283
Time
Date	201402
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Environment
Flight Conditions	Marginal
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Amateur/Home Built/Experimental
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Cruise
Route In Use	Direct
Flight Plan	VFR
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying Single Pilot
Qualification	Flight Crew Private
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 15 Flight Crew Total 802 Flight Crew Type 802
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural FAR Inflight Event / Encounter VFR In IMC

Narrative:

[Inadvertent flight] into IMC [while on] descent into VFR conditions. Ads-B on the plane had VFR conditions. Foreflight had VFR conditions. NOAA had VFR conditions. It wasn't for about 5 miles or so.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Lancair pilot; descending out of 17;500 FT VFR reports encountering IMC while on board equipment (ADS-B; Foreflight and NOAA) indicated VMC should prevail.

Narrative: [Inadvertent flight] into IMC [while on] descent into VFR conditions. ADS-B on the plane had VFR conditions. Foreflight had VFR conditions. NOAA had VFR conditions. It wasn't for about 5 miles or so.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.