"Paul Folbrecht" wrote in message
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If I buy a 152 getting the autogas STC appeals to me a lot for the
obvious reason (economy).

What I'm wondering about is exactly how the pilots that are running
autogas are getting it to the airport. I can't imagine the typical
answer is much different than "carting it there in cans" but even a 152
is going to require 5 5-gallon cans for a single fillup! That's a lot
of cans. Is there a better way?


I own a Cessna 150. I believe I can describe the procedure.

1) Buy 4 tanks of 2.5 gallons each. You want small tanks because you'll
have to lift them to the top of the high wing will standing on a ladder.

2) Buy a very large trash bag. You will store the bag in your trunk.
Store the gas cans in the bag. If you just have gas cans sitting in
your trunk, you will smell them.You will spill into the trunk, which is
just bad.

3) Buy a funnel. It makes everything easier.

4) On the way to the airport, try and remember how much fuel is
missing from the tanks. Fill up that number of cans.

5) At the airport, transfer fuel from the cans into the airplane.
Fill the right wing first (on my plane, that's always the tank
with less gas).

6) Dip the tanks. You should have plenty of fuel.

7) If you've bought too much fuel, put it in the car. But this should
not happen.

I do have some final words of advice. You don't need to
fill the tanks totally. If you're cruising around town for an hour,
and don't burn more than 6.5 gallons per hour, then 20 gallons
is enough. This means if you last flight was from full tanks and
only lasted 0.5 hours, you can probably go cruising again without
doing anything more than verifying fuel quantity.

The goal is to keep the tanks mostly full. You don't want to
start with empty tanks and fill by hand. It's too much of a pain.

You only own 4 tanks of 2.5 gallons each. If you ever burn more than
10 gallons (like on a long cruise), and need full tanks on the very next flight
(like another long cruise) then pay for avgas at the pump. This is a
very rare occurrence.

Finally, please realize that a 2.5 gallon tank only holds about 2.2
gallons. That's just how it is.