REFLECTOR: Economy Cruise
steve korney
s_korney at hotmail.com
Thu May 30 18:33:44 CDT 2013
Hey Scott...
Are you calculating to within a tenth of a gallon or a half gallon....And how did you get that 10.5 gallons...
Steve
Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 16:11:42 -0400
From: scottb33333 at gmail.com
To: reflector at tvbf.org
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Economy Cruise
On such a short mission, I doubt there will be little difference in
fuel burn between normal cruise operations and economy cruise. By
my quick calculations either method will burn close to 10.5 gallons
(one way). On a 62nm flight, the difference in economy cruise and
normal cruise will maybe save 5-minutes ... which is not enough time
to 'earn' much fuel savings. Tweaking the power settings might be
an interesting and fun exercise. I doubt however that it will save
a gallon of fuel (one way).
Best,
Scott B.
On 5/30/2013 2:06 PM, Mark Magee
wrote:
All,
My bird is XLFG IO540 300HP MT CS prop (two PMAGS on
pre-order) and I'm needing some performance data feedback. I
may be daily 'commuting' in the bird a 62 NM one way hop, 4 or
5 days per week. Both airports about 2,000 ft MSL. I'm
thinking I can remain fairly efficient if I lean on climb,
climb to only 6,000 MSL at 130KT climb then back down to 23
squared power and shoot for 150 KT cruise. I know this bird
isn't optimized for the short hop, yet I may need it to
perform there. With the P-Mags if I could keep the fuel burn
under 10GPH on the round trip I won't have to go to the mat
with my wife that I need a(n) (additional) Long EZ for this
new mission... :)
What do you guys think?
Mark B. Magee
N34XL
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