Oh well, I keep trucking on and then the left fuel gauge does this...
Hmmm... I just filled it up. I look out the window and everything is secure, and the engine is running just fine... fuel sender must have gone bad. Grrr... oh well. Fly on a bit longer and...
Bad photo but yes that's the alternator warning light, the left alternator gone. Jeez... that's not good. Luckily I have two alternators so not the bigger deal it would be in a single, but still annoying and even more so since this alternator has less than 200 hours on it and is a replacement for the one that failed with less than 100 hours on it. How can these alternators cost so much and suck so badly? I don't like flying instruments with stuff this this inop, luckily I was on top of the cloud layer, just barely.
It started to break up over the LA area, so I canceled IFR and circled down through a hole and landed uneventfully. Got a list of squawks to attend to now and an oil change due. I also bought a Davtron clock for the yoke and am looking to get it leather wrapped. When done it will look like this:
