My first gallon of fuel (glow) lasted 8 months-winter came, not many opportunities to get out and learn and practice. 2nd gallon lasted 6 weeks, 3rd and 4th gallon about 4 weeks each. I'm on about my 10th gallon and it's 1/2 gone, opened it 4 days ago. I guess I'm getting crazier by the minute. I only have 3 planes at the moment, a trainer (Superstar/LA.40), an ARF(SIG Rascal 40/Saito .56) and a kit(SIG 1/5 Cub kitbashed to an L-4/Saito .65). I midaired my 1st trainer, also a kit (SIG Kadet MkII/Tower .46). This all in the space of a year and a half. I fly about 3 times a week, mostly the Rascal, but more and more the L-4, and occasionally, if it's real windy, the trainer

The L-4 took over 8 months and 450 hrs to build, is highly detailed (in Pilot projects, MAN couple issues back) and I have been terrified every time I've flown it, because I don't want to ding it up, so as a result I dinged it up the fist 3 or 4 times I flew it. Even stalled it and crashed from about 75 feet up into a Kudzu thicket--talk about total terror, went to get it thinking it was totalled, found it pointing straight down with the nose a foot off the ground, and not a scratch anywhere. Bought the Rascal, figured I'd get a plane that I'd have no emotional attachment to, beat it up learning to fly a tail dragger; what do I do? crash it, immediately order a replacement because I liked flying it, then figured out it wasn't hurt so bad and repaired it, so now I have a brand new one still in the box--gonna keep it and put a set of floats on it.

I've also got a 1/4 scale Super Decathalon in the box to build, but it was an impulse buy and there are other plane kits I want to build first, most notably a Stinson Reliant, DeHavilland Beaver and L-19 BirdDog. Love those tail-draggers.

I'm more than plane crazy, I'm Plane Insane. I eat drink, sleep, dream airplanes. Can't wait to go fly, cuss the weather if it's bad, let the grass go unmowed to go fly. Fortunately I have a wife who understands the compulsion. She is the same way with her horses.