Winter / Focus / Fuel

[Keith Black]

In 7 months (May-Nov.) I burned 14 gallons. That's an average of  2 gallons
and about 18 flights per month. The number of flights is skewed somewhat by
contest flights which only last about 5 minutes (for Intermediate). My
average practice flight is about 17 minutes.

Another way to look at this is that I have a yearly average of approximately
$250 in fuel. At this rate it would take me about 2.5 years to justify one
li-po pack. :-0

I need to start flying more!

Keith Black


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Atwood, Mark" <atwoodm at paragon-inc.com>
To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 9:11 AM
Subject: RE: Winter / Focus / Fuel


That begs an  interesting question.

How much fuel do people burn in a calendar year?

I'd be interested to hear responses and where you're from (or maybe more
specifically, how many months that fuel is spread over.

In a competitive year (the last three not withstanding) I was burning 40-50
gal over 3.5 - 4 months (late May - Mid Sept.)

-Mark

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