Unfortunately I get 25 litres per hour from my Alon with a C90. It drops a bit on longer trips, but most of my flying is less than one hour so includes a climb. 25 litres per hour is 6.6 US gallons per hour. Sure I could fly slower and burn less, but to me the cruise at 85 kts is as slow as I want to travel.
Auto gas here is around GBP 1.18 per litre, so $7.40 per US gallon and still rising. My wife is still living in ignorant bliss. Mike On 15/6/08 15:34, "Ed Burkhead" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Egads, Mike! Those numbers were so unbelievable I had to check them. I did > calculate 15 flying hours for you (4.5 gph puttering around speed) instead of > the 10 you computed for each $1,000. But otherwise, Egads! > > Instead of making me feel good, that news puts the fear of the immediate > future in my guts. > > What is your current price for automobile gas? > > For gas sipping, a microlight with a 4-stroke engine like the HKS-700 or > (fighting a bad reputation for quality) a Hirth, might be able to fly for > 2-2.5 gallons per hour 7.5-9.5 lph. > > Your C-85 isn¹t that bad in specific fuel consumption, I don¹t think. It¹s a > close cousin to the engines they used to fly around the world non-stop > un-refueled. But, puttering around nose high at 80 mph will burn a lot less > fuel than drilling fast holes at 108 mph. I think you might get down to 3.5 > gph under the right circumstances. Maybe even 3.0 gph. > > Good luck on this. Hope you can keep the wife. > > Ed > > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Mike Willis > Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2008 4:05 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] com; Mike Willis; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ercoupe-tech] Syn. fuel for General Aviation > > Hey Wayne, > > I appreciate your sympathy. At my club we pay up front for GBP 500 of fuel > rather than by uplift. So for around $1,000 I now get 10 hours flying. My > concern is how long before my wife finds out! If she ever checks my log books > I¹m done for. > > Maybe hang gliders are becoming a more attractive way of flying. > > BR, > > Mike > > > On 14/6/08 21:50, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Just to make you guys on the west side of the Atlantic feel good, I am told >> the next batch of Avgas I buy will be GBP 2 per litre, which is $14.70 a US >> gallon. > > > > Don't worry Mike. We're right behind you. At the current rate of price > increases we should be at $15 a gallon in a year or so. Just another benefit > of the "Global Economy". > > Wayne > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ercoupe.co.uk Alon A2 Aircoupe A-188 G-HARY --
