Unfortunately returning from a maintenance nightmare in Tallahassee where I had gone with Bob-05 to pick up a Dobie, I was flying out of TLH in the clouds due to a tropical depression and first my vacuum pump failed and then my alternator. Within minutes of one another.

Neither failure was new to me, but this was my first multiple system failure. I have a standby generator and some decent redundancy so life was good, plus at 15,000 I was on top.

I flew it all the way back to Knoxville like that rather than endure another day of getting raped by the repair shop in TLH. As an aside I disputed the charges for the repairs on my credit card and I was credited by the card company over $3000 so the shop in TLH did not get a penny. Justice.