Cessna 150 Oil Burn!! Yea 1.5 qt's in 3 hours !!!!!

[Swass]

We used to have a plane at one of the schools I instructed at... a C172RG... that burned 0.75qt/hr no matter if it were full or near empty. So reliable that you could tell how many hours the plane had flown by how many quarts had to be put in it. I refused to fly the plane and wouldn't let my students anywhere near it... kept insisting to the owner that it was a serious problem, but he never did seem to care as long as the plane kept getting business.

Oh boy....... here comes avvy to tell you you're a ************************* for staying away of that mean old plane. Of course he won't come out and say it, but he'll put it in his own gritty way that you need to understand that "mechanically the oil required differs, etc........ it's not a problem etc........" and so on.

:bawling:

 

[NW_Pilot]

Sorry the place i posted the logs don't allow hot linking copy and paste it and replace ** with tt h**p://pilotsoft.150m.com/N51285.pdf

 

[CrimsonEclipse]

If I remember properly, you try to avoid ops below 4 qt in the O-200

If the oil burn from 5 qt down to 4 qt takes less than an hour, then I'd
avoid the airplane.

I don't care where the oil goes, it still sounds the same when the engines
seizes.

CE

 

[cezzna]

I don't care what it burns, flying a buck-fitty on that route is.........well...... insane! They're gonna spend more on you getting it down there than it's worth.

Ain't no buck-fitty made that can clear the andes.

 

[time builder]

Good ole 'Bug would had that buck fifty down to Peru irregardless. He woulda routed throught the most death defying terrain possible too, while being shot at by the locals. Not a thang to Avvy, hell, he went through worse to get to his computer today to log on.

For a second there, I thought this was another Chuck Norris post.

 

[NW_Pilot]

I don't care what it burns, flying a buck-fitty on that route is.........well...... insane! They're gonna spend more on you getting it down there than it's worth.

Ain't no buck-fitty made that can clear the andes.

If the oil burn would have been in what I call the normal end for the buck fifty say 1 qt every 10 to 15 hours I would be in Colombia by today. If you do your planning right you can get a buck fifty there.

I kinda hope the owner puts a top on the bird so I can get it there.

My next run is a PA28-181 to South Africa.

 

[CrimsonEclipse]

My next run is a PA28-181 to South Africa.

You are really lucky. That sounds like a great adventure.

Now THAT is true flying.

Good luck.

CE

P.S. Tell me how it goes.

 

[NW_Pilot]

You are really lucky. That sounds like a great adventure.

Now THAT is true flying.

Good luck.

CE

P.S. Tell me how it goes.

Yea, Will do. I got 2 1 Gig Cards for My Digital Camera so Lot's of Photos Will Be Taken & I have a New Laptop so I can communicate while on the mission.