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MaggieL · 07-25-2006, 01:00 PM

AvGas is $4/gallon at the airport where I fly. My 2,500 lb four-seater burns 9 gallons an hour, makes about 120 mph over the ground.

So I guess it has mostly to do with how you define "something like that". Rotax ultralight engine fuel consumption runs from 4 gal/hr (50 hp) to 9 gal/hr (100 hp). The abovementioned four-seater has a 180hp engine.

07-25-2006, 01:00 PM	#12
MaggieL in the Hour of Scampering Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Jeffersonville PA (15 mi NW of Philadelphia) Posts: 4,060	AvGas is $4/gallon at the airport where I fly. My 2,500 lb four-seater burns 9 gallons an hour, makes about 120 mph over the ground. So I guess it has mostly to do with how you define "something like that". Rotax ultralight engine fuel consumption runs from 4 gal/hr (50 hp) to 9 gal/hr (100 hp). The abovementioned four-seater has a 180hp engine. __________________ "Neither can his Mind be thought to be in Tune,whose words do jarre; nor his reason In frame, whose sentence is preposterous..." Last edited by MaggieL; 07-25-2006 at 01:12 PM.