And we thought a litre of Red was expensive

[oldgit]

Fuel Prices .
Rather a good website with some neat weather links...Wind etc....
go to News and Gossip and then down the bottom to the Fuel price survey.

 

[carlton]

Yeah,,,,,,but, no,,,,but,,,,,,don't small aircraft return about 35 m.p.g., or summat ? (Just something I'd heard...... /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif)

In which case, it's not so bad.

 

[geardownthreegreens]

£1.55 a litre. Bargain,i'll take 10 litres please!!!! Ouch,but from memory,it always was more costly than petrol.

And there was me thinking of retaking my flying lessons again,hmmm,hopefully Gloucestershire Airport will be cheaper /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[epervier]

"but they're all rich plane owners they can afford it!"

replace the word plane with boat and thats the support we'll get for the tax increase in November.

 

[geardownthreegreens]

You hit the nail on the head with that statement, soo true

 

[SnaxMuppet]

My 4 seater Grumman AA5-B would do about 45ltr per hour at about 140kts... so that is about 3nm / ltr... great economy when compared with boats.

Being someone who has come from a lifetime of flying light aircraft I still say boats are more economic than planes... by a significant amount when you look at value for money.

A 4 seater plane is about £150,000 new... compare that with what you can get in a boat for that money and look at what you can do with a boat compared with a plane. For even a small twin engined aircraft you would spend £250,000 and that would just be a 4 seater with very limited baggage capability. For a descent 6-8 seater you would be looking at £400,000. All very comparable with, say, a 40-50ft boat... except that you can't live on a aircraft.

I agree that you can get much cheaper 2nd hand but I am comparing new for new here.

I think boats give much better value that aircraft.