GOO to OSH on gasahol

100 knots in a 182? Are you flying or taxiing?

In a 1958 boxcar 182, to get fuel burn down to 10 gph if you flight plan for
anything more than 100 knots (from engine start to shutdown) INCLUDING
taxiing, climbing, descending, pattern, taxiing, you are deluding yourself.

Jim



If OSH isn't worth the flying, a hundred dollar hamburger isn't either.

Jose
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So get a more efficient plane. It would take me 9 hours and 121
gallons, including the stop at IOW. So at $4 a gallon that's about $960
for gas. And that's at 75%. If you're goal is to save money you could
easily shave 20-30 gallons off that total.




RST Engineering wrote:
100 knots in a 182? Are you flying or taxiing?


In a 1958 boxcar 182, to get fuel burn down to 10 gph if you flight plan for
anything more than 100 knots (from engine start to shutdown) INCLUDING
taxiing, climbing, descending, pattern, taxiing, you are deluding yourself.

Jim



If OSH isn't worth the flying, a hundred dollar hamburger isn't either.

Jose
--
You can choose whom to befriend, but you cannot choose whom to love.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

It must be nice to be rich enough to flippantly say, "So get a more
efficient plane." For 95% of the flying I do for the company, the flying
boxcar that will carry lead bricks is exactly the platform I need. Buying a
pocket rocket for one trip a year is not in my budget.

Jim

--
"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in
a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside,
thoroughly used up, totally worn out, with chocolate in one hand and wine in
the other, loudly proclaiming 'WOO HOO What a Ride!'"
--Unknown


"Newps" wrote in message
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So get a more efficient plane. It would take me 9 hours and 121 gallons,
including the stop at IOW. So at $4 a gallon that's about $960 for gas.
And that's at 75%. If you're goal is to save money you could easily shave
20-30 gallons off that total.

"RST Engineering" wrote in message
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It must be nice to be rich enough to flippantly say, "So get a more
efficient plane." For 95% of the flying I do for the company, the flying
boxcar that will carry lead bricks is exactly the platform I need. Buying
a pocket rocket for one trip a year is not in my budget.

LOL! 'If your goal is to save money, buy a newer plane...'

What do I have to do to live on that planet? ;

-c

Gatt wrote:

"RST Engineering" wrote in message
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It must be nice to be rich enough to flippantly say, "So get a more
efficient plane." For 95% of the flying I do for the company, the flying
boxcar that will carry lead bricks is exactly the platform I need. Buying
a pocket rocket for one trip a year is not in my budget.


LOL! 'If your goal is to save money, buy a newer plane...'

What do I have to do to live on that planet? ;

My plane and I are the same age, 42. I didn't say buy newer, I said buy
a more efficient plane.

RST Engineering wrote:
It must be nice to be rich enough to flippantly say, "So get a more
efficient plane." For 95% of the flying I do for the company, the flying
boxcar that will carry lead bricks is exactly the platform I need. Buying a
pocket rocket for one trip a year is not in my budget.


Our planes are priced similarly and have similar useful loads. Mine has
250 pounds more useful than the 182 I got rid of. Insurance would be
more. They fly the same.

"RST Engineering" wrote in message
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It must be nice to be rich enough to flippantly say, "So get a more
efficient plane." For 95% of the flying I do for the company, the flying
boxcar that will carry lead bricks is exactly the platform I need. Buying
a pocket rocket for one trip a year is not in my budget.

Jim, I'm curious what kind of things you do with the plane for buisness,
that requires the load carrying capability? I'm fine with the fact that the
182 is what you need, and buying a effiecient plane to fly to OSH is a
ridiculous notion.

Can you give a hint at the typical mission you fly that utilizes that
special quality, without giving away all of your secrets?

I know; You could say, " I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you!"

Just curious. I would have thought that carring around little avionics and
such and air testing them would have been the typical mission.
--
Jim in NC

Not at all. Some of my missions require taking spectrum analyzer readings
from antennas mounted on the aircraft to find nulls, impedance mismatches,
and the like. The antennas are small light avionics, but the spectrum
analyzer is Hewlett Packard (Patton Tank) quality, weighs about seventy
pounds, and is about double the size of a laser printer. The inverter
required to power it from the aircraft electrical system is about the size
of a small laptop computer, and I need to be able to see the analyzer on the
back seat in order to prove to myself it is working before I hit the
datalogger on the laptop computer to record the data.

Sometimes I also need to bring along the IFR Service Monitor to run
calibration checks in the field and it is about half the same size and
weight as the spectrum analyzer.

Some of my missions are annual inspections and the toolbox with all my
"annual" tools takes up about as much space as your average three-suit
suitcase and weighs in the vicinity of seventy pounds.

The "Oshkosh Trip" annual mission needs Gail's traveler clothes bag, my
clothes bag, all the "stuff" I bring with me to make my forums come to life,
the handouts, and all the rest of it. Two people and the back seat/baggage
area are full to the hatrack with "stuff".

S'owkay?

Jim

--
"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in
a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside,
thoroughly used up, totally worn out, with chocolate in one hand and wine in
the other, loudly proclaiming 'WOO HOO What a Ride!'"
--Unknown


"Morgans" wrote in message
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Jim, I'm curious what kind of things you do with the plane for buisness,
that requires the load carrying capability? I'm fine with the fact that
the 182 is what you need, and buying a effiecient plane to fly to OSH is a
ridiculous notion.

Can you give a hint at the typical mission you fly that utilizes that
special quality, without giving away all of your secrets?

"RST Engineering" wrote

Some of my missions are annual inspections and the toolbox with all my
"annual" tools takes up about as much space as your average three-suit
suitcase and weighs in the vicinity of seventy pounds.

The "Oshkosh Trip" annual mission needs Gail's traveler clothes bag, my
clothes bag, all the "stuff" I bring with me to make my forums come to
life, the handouts, and all the rest of it. Two people and the back
seat/baggage area are full to the hatrack with "stuff".

S'owkay?

Jim

Yep-urr!

I completely understand your reasons for flying at 0 AGL, but it is a pity
that has to happen.

At least you are going. I won't be, 'cause my back can't stand sitting in a
vehicle for a 1,000 mile one way trip.

Next year, I hope.
--
Jim in NC