At 09:11 AM 9/20/99 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Coming back to Redmond we burned close to 6 gallons per hour. Why I
> don't know for sure.. there's no obvious leaks and the engine seemed > to be running just fine. Stayed cool with plenty of oil pressure and > normal oil burn. We were flying fairly high, 8500', most of the way > and with being wired full rich maybe this did it?? At higher > altitudes without mixture compensation will a C-85 burn this much > fuel? Mine's a C85. That doesn't seem outrageous to me. I burned 5.5 GPH on the trip from Columbus, OH., to NJ. That was with three climbs; one to 5500 and one to 3500. If you did many climbs to 8500, then that could account for it. That's a lot of time spent climbing. What are you using for cruise RPM (I used 2300)? What are you turning while climbing at 75MPH IAS? You don't get much back on the descent; Ercoupes are slow enough that the tendency is to put the nose down on descent, throttle back to just at the top of the green arc (not much reduction) and turn the altitude into airspeed. I think when people talk about 5-5.5 GPH, they aren't talking about situations where you spend a lot of time climbing to 8500' at or near gross weight. Greg
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