Gerald Sylvester wrote:

tony roberts wrote:
I believe that it is a huge mistake to teaach student pilots that at a
given power setting their aircraft will average x gallons per hour.

so what would you teach them?

I would teach them to fly by the clock -- *but* --
Land if the gauges read less than 1/4 tank.
Land and find out what's wrong if you've been pulling out of one tank for an hour and
the gauge still reads full.

George Patterson
If a man gets into a fight 3,000 miles away from home, he *had* to have
been looking for it.