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Originally Posted by jesse.rizzo
This is pretty cool. I'm in school right now for aviation and as much fun as it is, I've been a little bothered by the fuel consumption of aircraft. Even the 4 seat Cessna 172s that we fly for training burn roughly 10 US gallons per hour. At average cruise speed of 110 knots or 126.5 mph that's not very good.
And hypermiling is pretty much out of the question, since it affects your trip time more directly than in a car (there's no catching up to the speed demons at a red light in the air) and we rent the aircraft by the hour.
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Yea but if you're trying to build time...
and if you put 3 buddies, for the 100$ cheeseburger, in the plane the cumulative FE just got respectable.