3rd Annual Pre-Oshkosh Fly-In Pool Party July 23rd!

When avgas was 50 cents a gallon, that was the operative solution. I
generated a series of spreadsheets that tells me for any given head/tail
wind what the optimum miles per gallon power setting is and I fly that
fairly religeously. It isn't in my pocketbook to fly any other way.

Jim



Wanna plan on a convoy from the left coast to IOW that weekend? The 182
has a hard time meeting 110 knots TAS, but we can certainly make some
arrangements.
/snip/

Good Gawd, Jim! Try positioning that black knob further towards the
*front* of the aircraft! You might be amazed...

We got a guy here who flies his 180 at 20 squared. Always. 100 feet
off the runway he powers down. We all laugh at him.



RST Engineering wrote:
When avgas was 50 cents a gallon, that was the operative solution. I
generated a series of spreadsheets that tells me for any given head/tail
wind what the optimum miles per gallon power setting is and I fly that
fairly religeously. It isn't in my pocketbook to fly any other way.

Jim




Wanna plan on a convoy from the left coast to IOW that weekend? The 182
has a hard time meeting 110 knots TAS, but we can certainly make some
arrangements.

/snip/

Good Gawd, Jim! Try positioning that black knob further towards the
*front* of the aircraft! You might be amazed...

We got a guy here who flies his 180 at 20 squared. Always. 100 feet off
the runway he powers down. We all laugh at him.

Wow. At 20 squared, we don't need headphones to talk in a conversational
voice. And we're puttering along at 100 knots or so.

Of course, we're also only burning around 8 gph, which -- if you're not
really in a hurry -- is always nice!

I don't think I'd be pulling back to that at 100 AGL, though...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
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