Looks like the Sun and Fun Trip is drawing to a close. We were a lottle west of Saint Thomas Pa heading to Parkersburg Wv on our way to the Sun and Fun when the Altenator and Low Voltage Annunciator illuminated. Scott goes Uh Oh and I look up from the Garmin 496 XM display to see the lights on.
Not good... We're at 8000 feet on top of an undercast that the XM weather is showing ceilings at the airports we're crossing at 400-800 feet over mountains with 3 mile visibilities with an airplane where everything we need is electric.
I cycle the altenator master and it comes back on line. We start looking for a place we can land. The XM on the Gamin shows Latrobe and Johnsonville within our range. We get to the ST Thomas VOR and the Altenator starts going off line more rapidly so we picked Latrobe based on the AOPA Directory function on it (I'm trading my 396 in for that feature alone) and find that Latrobe has piston mechanics on duty so we divert there.
Scott performs an uneventful landing and we end up getting stuck here for the night. There won't be enough time to get to Sun and Fun and back so we're off for Danbury as soon as practical tomorrow.
Time to spare...go by air
SPW
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