"Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATcox.net wrote in message
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"Matt Barrow" wrote in message
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So 800 lbs with full fuel. That's only a little less than double what
my Zenith 601 will be able to carry with the tanks topped. A lot
faster though.
I dare say that "full fuel" in the Mustang will take it a lot further
than your plane as well.


Well of course it will but it won't take four grown men and there
luggage and golf clubs which I would expect for $2.75 Million.

Sure it will. ZFW is about 2400 lbs.
[Too quick] How far can it take those four and luggage (say, 1000 lbs
total) on 1400 lbs of Jet-A?



I was a little quick as well I should have written "full fuel" before
"four grown men."

Considering that the average bizjet flight is less than 1.5 hours, the load
with full fuel is rather irrelevant.

So maybe they should have built in smaller fuel tanks? :~)

Think: mission profile

In 20 years flying and over 2000 hours the last eight years, I can count on
three or four fingers the times I ever topped off the tanks. Once was to
calibrate the true "Useable Fuel". The other times were to get heavy when I
expected some stiff turbulence.

I have a six place, but IIRC, I filled FIVE seats twice.