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Old 01-27-2010 | 09:11 AM
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Montague
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Default RE: Flying habits

Wow, the return of the 5.5year-old thread.

I looked back at what I posted last time, and the funny thing is that two seasons ago, I actually went through about 22 gallons of glow fuel in a year. Some of that was contest flying, but a lot was because my wife now flys as well, and she had a .91 4-stroke in her plane, later upgraded to a 1.20 four stroke. And I was putting a fair amount of hours on a twin with .46 two-strokes, plus a .70 two stroke. I also flew a gasser quite a bit, so that didn't count.

Anyway, last season, I pulled my wife's 1.20 and put in a 20cc gasser, I flew my 50cc gasser much more, my twin spent a lot of the time for maintenance so my glow fuel burn dropped off a ton, down to about 5 gallons in a season.

Much easier on the wallet, that's for sure.