In rec.aviation.owning Newps wrote:
: Don't know what altitude you're talking about but at 7500 and 20 squared
: you are looking at 9 gph. At 15 inches and 2000 you will get about 6.5
: gph. At this point the nose will be pretty high and you will only be
: getting about 95-100 MPH IAS. To get to 5.5 gph wouldn't be any fun at
: all. If you have to have 5.5 then sell the plane and get something that
: can reasonably do that.

He didn't ask how to make it fun... just if it was possible to fly a 182 at
5.5 gph. I answered that it most likely was. Truth be told, if you're after pure
fuel economy, you'd want to run oversquared as much as possible, too.

: On the big bore Continentals you need to be below 65% before you try
: that. Plus having a carbed engine makes LOP impractical.

LOP on a carb'd engine is difficult/unlikely. Running at peak (as long as
your CHT's aren't high) is fine as well... as long as your power is low.

-Cory

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* Cory Papenfuss *
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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