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AHPlowman(at)varicore.com
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 Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 6:20 am Post subject: Fuel costs |
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Hey guys! We are on the same side! Lets start finding ways of reducing fuel consumption, finding alternate fuels, etc. It has never been cheap to fly. When I was learning to fly I thought Avgas was really expensive ($2.00) but it is all relative. I went to electronic ignition and running lean of peak and have cut my fuel flows by almost two gallons per hour at altitude. Yes, I have cut back my flying as well, but 75 hours a year in my GII-S-FT is better than not flying.
How long will it last....I don't know. But as long as the redistribution of wealth (call it equal opportunity or whatever you want) remains the unspoken goal of so many politicians, it will get tougher to own and operate an aircraft. I don't know about you, but I will enjoy it as long as I can and then be thankful I had the chance.
Arnold Plowman
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Bruce(at)glasair.org
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| Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 6:35 am Post subject: Fuel costs |
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Heck, I remember when 100LL was 35 cents a gallon. The J3 Cub I learned to fly in only cost $10 wet per hour.
Bruce
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Craymondw(at)aol.com
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| Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:50 am Post subject: Fuel costs |
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It appeared to a few members felt that I was picking on Glasair when I was talked about high fuel costs destroying the industry. I am sorry for the misunderstanding. I have three close friends that own Glasairs 111's with one of them also owning a Glasair 11. My wife owns an unusually fast and very reliable Glasair 2S FT and we all get to fly one another's aircrafts. My life long passion has been aerobatics and I owned a highly modified Pitts S2S but decided to stop performing unlimited aerobatics after developing floaters in my eyes.
My wife owns her own company and uses her plane for business trips, visiting our families and friends and flying to various tourist spots and resorts. Her time is more important to her than the cost of fuel. And even though we made roughly two dozen flights last year, we have cut our total hours down from 125 hours to fifty last year. What is making me nervous about fuel costs was receiving a phone call last year from a business man saying he had a Glasair 11 FT 90% completed and just wanted it out of his hanger. Doing the math, even if I took the plane for free and completed it in these market conditions, I felt after completing the plane I would only break even trying to sell it.
My financial advisor as well as friends that are oil company executives aren't painting a pretty picture and can see no way for fuel prices to go but continue to sky rocket up. In my mind, the only way out of this is for the government to get out of the way and allow simultaneous drillings in Anwar, the Eastern Gulf Of Mexico and on the main land. The Government also has to provided financing to develop oil sand and oil shale processing plants. And refineries have to be built. Lastly, this country has to cut down it's thirst for oil buy enforcing mileage requirements for vehicles. By doing this, industry analysts feel this country would have a good twenty year supply of low cost petroleum. Of all the alternatives, a hydrogen gas powered fleet appears to the most promising but will take years to develope.
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robin02(at)mindspring.com
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| Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 10:06 am Post subject: Fuel costs |
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If you Google "peak oil" several sites that are mostly blogs by economists and oil insiders pop up. Peak Oil is a scenario that was predicted just a few years ago and things are playing out just as was blogged. It is very interesting reading. RObin Young 286YM.
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