Hummer vs Skylane

"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!

And to top it off this was the annual work party weekend at our
wilderness airstrip about 40 SE of Kalispell. I am this close to
selling my 182 and buying an S35 Bonanza that was there. 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.



Mike Rapoport wrote:

IMHO the H1 Hummer looks good but the H2 does not.

Mike
MU-2


"Newps" wrote in message
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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. 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.

But the 182 looks good while converting all that money to noise. The
Hummer is a god awful looking contraption. More befitting a low wing
driver.

Newps wrote:
And to top it off this was the annual work party weekend at our
wilderness airstrip about 40 SE of Kalispell. I am this close to
selling my 182 and buying an S35 Bonanza that was there. 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.

Do a W&B/C&G comparison for full and empty weights before you sell the 182.

john smith wrote:

Newps wrote:

And to top it off this was the annual work party weekend at our
wilderness airstrip about 40 SE of Kalispell. I am this close to
selling my 182 and buying an S35 Bonanza that was there. 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.


Do a W&B/C&G comparison for full and empty weights before you sell the 182.

That's one of the items I'm going to do. The Bo has more useful load
although I don't have to run CG numbers on my 182. It can't be loaded
out either the front or rear CG, full tanks or empty. The Bo has a much
larger baggage area and I really like the ability to remove the rear
seats individually.

Newps wrote:
That's one of the items I'm going to do. The Bo has more useful load
although I don't have to run CG numbers on my 182. It can't be loaded
out either the front or rear CG, full tanks or empty. The Bo has a much
larger baggage area and I really like the ability to remove the rear
seats individually.

The Bo's C/G moves aft with fuel burn, making it easy to get outside the
envelope. I have had to leave people behind because the C/G was
calculated to be beyond the aft limit for landing.

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.

On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 13:37:40 -0500, Tina Marie
wrote:

In article , Nathan Young wrote:
plane gets better mileage than the truck. Too bad 100LL is $1.00
more expensive than 87 octane. (I just paid $4.04 last week, ouch).

I paid $4.21 at TraJen in Austin last weekend. And that was the
cheap gas on the field - Signature was $4.40.

Tina Marie

WHEW!

Did you get taken!!!

Its still $2.85 most places around San Antonio -- just south of you.

In fact, I tanked at New Braunfels two days ago at that price. It
might be worth your while to fly south a few minutes and get gas at
KBAZ.


Chuck

Chuck wrote:
Tina Marie wrote:

I paid $4.21 at TraJen in Austin last weekend. And that was the
cheap gas on the field - Signature was $4.40.

WHEW!

Did you get taken!!!

Its still $2.85 most places around San Antonio -- just south of you.

In fact, I tanked at New Braunfels two days ago at that price. It
might be worth your while to fly south a few minutes and get gas at
KBAZ.

Yep cheaper further south you geaux, $3.45 at San Marcos KHYI

In article , Chuck wrote:
Did you get taken!!!

Its still $2.85 most places around San Antonio -- just south of you.

Yeah, but we were headed for a book signing 12 miles from AUS.

Tina Marie
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