On May 22, 3:50 am, Dylan Smith wrote:
On 2007-05-22, Greg Copeland wrote:

Hmm. Not sure why you put it that way. The IO360 is well know for
being rock solid. Diesel aircraft engines typically cost you useful
load because of their weight and the fuel is heavier to boot. A
double whammy on useful load isn't exactly exciting.

The Thielert diesel burns about half the fuel of an IO360 with very
little performance loss. I think that's exciting. So you get MORE useful
load because you need vastly less fuel.

20% higher (IIRC; or was it 40%) which means fuel consumption is 20%
higher for the same HP rating.

I'm really curious - where did you get these numbers from? The diesel
burns about 50% of the fuel of an O-320, let alone an IO-360.

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Okay, seems I stand corrected. Just FYI, I looked this morning and
diesel fuel is 18% heavier. I had also assumed that they had placed a
FADEC setup on the Lyc, thusly greatly improving its effeciency too.
Guess not. Many people don't realize that much of the effeciency
associated with these engines comes from FADEC rather than diesel in
of it self.

Greg