Hummer vs Skylane

Newps wrote:

I am looking
at some performance numbers now and if the Bo doesn't give away too much
short field performance I am going to buy it.

Had a chance to buy a Bo once and missed it. Go for it.

George Patterson
Why do men's hearts beat faster, knees get weak, throats become dry,
and they think irrationally when a woman wears leather clothing?
Because she smells like a new truck.

I use a cost per mile for comparison...I get about 320 sm in the car for
a fill-up of about $31.50 or a bit over 10 cents/mile. In the cherokee 180
best guess always depends on the winds but let's assume 120 sm (yes, statute
miles -- similar comparisons and such) at 8 gph. I'm paying $3.00/gal
so that's $24/hr or $24/120 sm. which works out to 20 cents/mile.

So it costs double to fly as to drive, assuming straight line.

But what isn't included in here is cost of my time. For example, a day-trip
from Denver to Sante Fe (or Taos) is not practical in a car but
perfectly doable in the cherokee.

"Guy Byars" wrote:

I just realized that my Skylane gets about the same gas mileage as a
Hummer.
I burn about 13gal per hour and go about 130 knots... 10nm per gallon,
or
11.5 miles per gallon.

157 mph on 10.5 gph. = 14.9 mpg.

--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

As they say in racing, "Speed costs money. How fast do you want to go?"


"Guy Byars" wrote in message
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I just realized that my Skylane gets about the same gas mileage as a
Hummer.
I burn about 13gal per hour and go about 130 knots... 10nm per gallon, or
11.5 miles per gallon. Now granted I am going in a straight line, and 3
times as fast, but still that is awful mileage. Now my old Cessna 140
did
a lot better, 105mph at 5gph... more like about 20 miles per gallon.

Can anyone boast better mileage?

Mooney. 150 knots on 10 gal/hr. About 18 mpg.

"Guy Byars" wrote in
:

I just realized that my Skylane gets about the same gas mileage as a
Hummer. I burn about 13gal per hour and go about 130 knots... 10nm per
gallon, or 11.5 miles per gallon. Now granted I am going in a
straight line, and 3 times as fast, but still that is awful mileage.
Now my old Cessna 140 did a lot better, 105mph at 5gph... more like
about 20 miles per gallon.

Can anyone boast better mileage?



Sure, my car gets much better mileage than your Hummer.

But it doesn't matter because no matter how hard I pull back on the
steering wheel, the damn thing stays on the ground!