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l_klingmuller6(at)earthli
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Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 12:12 pm Post subject: Mielage: Fuel consumption based on gallons per hour

The subject of fuel consumtion has so many variables:  speed, engine, altitude, airplane, weight, inclusion/exclusions, averages,  etc, etc

  

 Now here is a chanllange for those who have been flying some longer x-country flights and have computed AVERAGE trip milages.

  

 What is your average MILAGE e. g. st miles/gal or n miles/gal??

  

 Here some recent data for an RV-6A based on total gl used for the total  GPS milage flown from Denver / Tucson / southern Calf/ Albuquerque/Denver  (includes one hour of sight seeing and all taxiing etc)  

 Total GPS milage:  2000 nml

 Total fuel:            102 gl

 Average milage:    22.5 gl/st ml

  

  

  

  

 

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rjdaugh

Joined: 30 Aug 2006
Posts: 195

Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 5:57 pm Post subject: Mielage: Fuel consumption based on gallons per hour

I will throw out one data point for a series 5 with series 7 firewall forward and 912S.    

   

From Rapid City, South Dakota to just past the other side of South Dakota – Sioux Center Iowa.  390 miles, 430 miles on I-90, about 4.3 hours on clock, one stop, 13 gal premium car gas 30 miles per gallon.  

   

I now have a better prop and am quite a bit faster and burning more like 3.3 gal/hr.  

   

Randy  

     

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[b]The subject of fuel consumtion has so many variables:  speed, engine, altitude, airplane, weight, inclusion/exclusions, averages,  etc, etc[/b]  

    

   

    

[b]Now here is a chanllange for those who have been flying some longer x-country flights and have computed AVERAGE trip milages.[/b]  

    

   

    

[b]What is your average MILAGE e. g. st miles/gal or n miles/gal??[/b]  

    

   

    

[b]Here some recent data for an RV-6A based on total gl used for the total  GPS milage flown from Denver / Tucson / southern Calf/ Albuquerque/Denver  (includes one hour of sight seeing and all taxiing etc)  [/b]  

    

[b]Total GPS milage:  2000 nml[/b]  

    

[b]Total fuel:            102 gl[/b]  

    

[b]Average milage:    22.5 gl/st ml[/b]  

    

   

    

   

    

   

    

   

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lcfitt(at)sbcglobal.net
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Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 6:28 am Post subject: Mielage: Fuel consumption based on gallons per hour

I did a little checking and this is rough.



In 2002, the first flight to the Idaho back country, I flew from O61 to RIU 

a distance of about 15 miles to join up with the group then off to WMC for 

fuel.  The trip included the landing at RIU, and subsequent TO, a climb to 

9-10,000 ft. to clear the Sierras and then the flight across Nevada to WMC. 

Flight Planning Software gives the distance as 223 miles.  As we usually fly 

along the roads and river canyons it is more than that, but using those 

fugures and the 7.7 gallons of fuel I used.  It comes out to 28.96 mpg. 

Also among the variables is the fact that we always fly to the speed of the 

slowest airplane and we had a 582 powered IV with us.  The trip took almost 

exactly three hours from RIU to WMC.



Lowell

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