X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from [209.55.3.210] (HELO mailout04.server.ibbs.com) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.3.5) with ESMTPS id 4219962 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:36:05 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=209.55.3.210; envelope-from=davidm@remconinc.com Received: from ex-relay-out01.server.ibbs.com ([10.1.200.80] helo=ex-relay-out01.server.ibssonline.com) by mailout04.server.ibbs.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O1i7U-00073r-W1 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 08:33:44 -0700 Received: from [75.108.247.235] (helo=[192.168.1.108]) by ex-relay-out01.server.ibssonline.com with ESMTP (eXpurgate 3.1.2) (envelope-from ) id 4bc490ec-5372-4b6cf7eb0590-1 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 08:42:37 -0700 Message-ID: <4BC48EF5.7040307@remconinc.com> Disposition-Notification-To: David Moyer Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:34:13 -0500 From: David Moyer Reply-To: davidm@remconinc.com Organization: Remcon Associates, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Fuel Burn Rate References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-purgate-ID: 152875::1271173357-00005372-528CEF38/0-0/0-0 X-purgate-type: clean X-purgate-size: 1552 X-purgate-Ad: Categorized by eleven eXpurgate (R) http://www.eleven.de What kind of RPM are you cruising at? Are you running any boost at cruise, or just using it more for takeoff and climb. Good plan on keeping at least 5 gallons in each wing. I forget how much unusable fuel is in the tanks, but that would still leave you with some margin. I know you have had enough scares with the fuel system. Thanks for the info. -- Cozy MK-IV (Still Building) Come on already!!! Itching to fly this bird. Turbo Rotary Houston, TX On 4/12/2010 1:47 PM, John Slade wrote: > Hi David, > I tend to leave my EM2 set to show mixture and must admit I don't pay > much attention to fuel flow. If the engine's running smoothly and the > mixture's in the middle the fuel flow (shown by the EM2) isn't going > to tell me much. The few times I checked I think it was showing > anywhere between 7 - 8 gph at a gentle cruise and 13 or so at higher > throttle settings. I don't think I've ever checked it on take-off > (too busy watching temps and mixture). I usually flight plan for 10 > gph and that seems to work out fairly well. If I ever get to less than > 5gals in either side I consider it time to land and get fuel. > Regards, > John > > David Moyer wrote: >> Just fishing for some fuel burn rates that every one has been seeing. >> >> John Slade, curious what kind of burn rate you are seeing with your >> setup as mine will be very similar. >> > > > -- > Homepage: http://www.flyrotary.com/ > Archive and UnSub: > http://mail.lancaironline.net:81/lists/flyrotary/List.html >