Fuel Prices and their Effect on Your Flying

On 2006-05-03, Newps wrote:
I have the S model also. At 13 gph you are at 65% which gives me an
indicated airspeed of 173-175 MPH and a TAS of 186-189 MPH at 6000.
Yours was maybe a little slow.

I think the exact numbers I saw in the plane were 163 KTAS at 8000',
which multiplied by 1.15 is 187 mph TAS. It was good to be able to make
a reasonable distance in a single hop (a fuel stop when IFR usually
added another 45 minutes). The 182 we had in the club had the small fuel
tanks - so for many trips I could do them faster and cheaper (the Bo had a
higher hourly rate, but the speed made up) by a worthwhile margin in the
Bonanza.

Not to want to gush over the Bo, but I think it's probably one of the
best in its class - real pilots plane, flies really nicely with just
fingertip inputs. It's stable IFR (I found it easier to hand fly than an
Arrow). Other nice touches like no trim change when you put the flaps
down are just icing on the cake. Oh, and landing gear that worked well
for bumpy unpaved runways.

Pity about the lousy ergonomics though, but a lot of planes were like
that in the 1960s!

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