RE: does fuel choice effect flight time?
To know how much fuel you have, go old school.
I now use a manual hand pump specifically for this - and have ditched the electric pump that makes a god awful noise.
When you fuel, count how many turns it takes. One plane I have takes 30ish turns. Once landed after 10 minutes, I defueled and found it took 10 turns to empty. So roughly a 15 minute flight time.