Aborted trip to the Bahamas

We set out Friday morning to fly to the Bahamas to look at a bigger boat....we made it to Ft. Pierce, our normal "hop over" stop....

But our attitude indicator (one of the instruments that tells us the wings are level) decided to quit working.

This is what it looks like now in level flight at 7000 ft....not at all what it's supposed to look like!

So, after some quick phone calls to avionics shops, it was clear that we were not going to be able to fix this on a Friday afternoon.  And it's not something that my extremely mechanical husband can fix with just a screwdriver!

We made the best of it - got a rental car and a hotel room....had a nice dinner at a beach bar and headed home.   We'll get the instrument overhauled and try again to head to the Bahamas after next week!

Oh, a side note - since this instrument tells the autopilot that the wings are level....the autopilot was inoperative too.....which means we flew back home 4 hours with no autopilot.  We are so spoiled!!!!

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