This morning the plan was to just bend a flyrod for a few hours. On the way to one of the area mountain streams I heard a beep from the infotainment screen. There was something different, a new icon. Oh well, a well placed fingertip on the touch screen brought up a message stating a system update was available. Why not, lets see what happens.
A few miles down the road the update was on step #6 and after that, who knows? Garmin at this point was not able to find its way once again out of a plain brown paper bag. The Honda Passport Elite was now flying at an altitude of 10,980 feet above sea level somewhere over the eastern slopes of the Cascade Mountains. Ground level in these parts is about 4300 feet above sea level and that puts the Elite flying about 6000 feet above ground and the oxygen mask did not drop from the over head compartment.
An emergency was declared and I made a quick decent to the landing field at Cloud 9. With a total failure of instruments a switch to VFR was made and a successful approach and landing was made on Cloud 9. Upon exit of this strange craft a walkaround was preformed, no wings?? Fred MacMurry must of given the formula of Flubber to AHM. No doubt the FAA will question my lack of filling a flight plan, then will the FAA believe this achievement.
Just the same, while at the landing field of Cloud 9 my landing net was useful for the brown trout and white fish.
Stuck,
A few miles down the road the update was on step #6 and after that, who knows? Garmin at this point was not able to find its way once again out of a plain brown paper bag. The Honda Passport Elite was now flying at an altitude of 10,980 feet above sea level somewhere over the eastern slopes of the Cascade Mountains. Ground level in these parts is about 4300 feet above sea level and that puts the Elite flying about 6000 feet above ground and the oxygen mask did not drop from the over head compartment.
An emergency was declared and I made a quick decent to the landing field at Cloud 9. With a total failure of instruments a switch to VFR was made and a successful approach and landing was made on Cloud 9. Upon exit of this strange craft a walkaround was preformed, no wings?? Fred MacMurry must of given the formula of Flubber to AHM. No doubt the FAA will question my lack of filling a flight plan, then will the FAA believe this achievement.
Just the same, while at the landing field of Cloud 9 my landing net was useful for the brown trout and white fish.
Stuck,
