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I’ve now had a total of 5 AI failures, no vacuum pump failures (yet). Only the most recent was IMC, local practice flight so I continued on and worked on my partial panel skills. (P.S. - all in different aircraft)

AOPA Pilot Protection Service. Well worth it. They were the first ones I called. Gave me step by step instructions including phone numbers. Texas DPS troopers couldn’t have been more helpful, gave me a ride back to my car at home base.

You can’t just throw that out there with no proof. C’mon man, give us a video.

If I read correctly on BeechTalk, this was actually a Machen STC that’s powered by a 350HP Lycoming IO-540. Not overly relevant to the OP, just sayin’. From what was said, sounds like he was doing it right during an engine out, other than once on the ground sliding through a fence/tree line and...

Why not put down the snap together floor tiles (Griot’s Garage), easy clean prep, easy install and can take it with you if you move?

One of the ones in the club fleet I fly often starts much better with both on. What does that indicate? Timing needs attention?

Assuming I understand you correctly to be concluding CFIT, curious exactly how you deduced that as the cause? Based solely on the photos, since the article mentions nothing about cause, couldn’t they just as easily have lost the engine and landed near the ridge top?

I realized many years ago that there is huge money to be made in a non-profit organization.