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Originally Posted by Piotrsko
Econo cruise in a plane shouldn't burn a piston, not paying attention during full power climb will. Older Bonanzas were time limited on full power climb, not current an brand new ones.
At altitude in cruise you throttle back some amount then lean the engine until it misses or shuts down then add fuel until it runs smooth again. If you run full throttle you dont lean much but use the same process. If youre really into fuel economy, you have an exhaust temp gauge and you set the mixture to 50 degrees rich of peak temperature.
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Crazy enough they just had a notecard on the dash that said "Don't go past x and x" which comes out to some afr they had determined. But its just a manual stick and he said it will let you go too far. So thats interesting.
I say bad gas mileage because it can be unless the road is windey. 15-20mpg for a straight shot trip with avgas (33% extra usually) a friend would fly from the hometown to college was 185 miles, but in a car it was 210 miles with 87. So half the time we would take the prius instead.