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1. 08:16 AM - RV-10 Flight Training at CUB in Sept (Patty Hamilton)
2. 11:36 AM - Plane fuel ramblings (sportav8r@aol.com)
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| Subject: | RV-10 Flight Training at CUB in Sept |
Mike Seager will be in Columbia, SC (CUB) on Sept 5 & 6. He will be
giving flight training in the factory RV-10. The cost is 60 per hour for
Mike and the plane rents for 75 per hour for a total of $ 135 per hour.
If you are interested in flying with Mike, please email me at Hamilton@sc.e
du Once I get a feel for who and how many would like to fly with Mike I
will set up a schedule to hopefully accommodate everyone's agenda. Thanks,
Patty Hamilton
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| Subject: | Plane fuel ramblings |
Wow; sticker-shock at the gas pump! I miss the old days of $1.95 avgas and $.99
mogas, but who doesn't?!
Figuring I'd better grab the early summer driving season local price of 2.79 for
93 octane, I loaded up the ferry tank into the pickup truck with the tractor
and bale spear, and made 4 round-trips yesterdsay to the nearby gas-mart to stock
up the Stormy Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Unloading 400 gallons of fuel
by a hand-cranked pump will wear you out. It hurts in the wallet, too, over
$1000 worth. Discover declined my card on the third trip, and I had to call fraud
protection to convince them that repeated $280 purchases the same day were
legit.
Hopefully, I'm done with aircraft fuel purchases for the most part for 2006. My
budgeting software agrees with that sentiment. My last case of AeroShell 15W-50
reflected the recent rise in petroleum prices as well: 65 bucks for 12 qts.
That right there makes me feel justified changing oil every 50 hours! I guess
we're competing with oil-hungry and newly-prospering India and China now,
and the reality of the worldwide petroleum market will henceforth always reflect
that, unless supply surges somehow.
Meanwhile, back on the farm, I got the brakes relined and the 55 amp Isuzu alternator
lashed up; all seems to be 100% operational. Nice to see 14.2 volts at
idle rpm with all electrical loads on, and nothing pulsating or flickering, and
no LV warning lights like I always had with the external regulator and Van's
35 amp Honda alternator. I'm almost sure there was a diode bad in there. Rascal
sure gets hot to touch after 5 minutes fast idle uncowled, but I guess this
is normal for an alternator under full load. This is why we run a blast tube
to the ass-end, isn't it ;-0)
Looks like we'll be mostly ready for the fly-in June 24th. The Amish Country gazebo
people have delayed my delivery until June 20th, so I'm going to be scrambling
to have that part of the deck ready for visitors by then. I love being
busy with house and yard projects this time of year, so I have no complaints
<g>.
-Stormy
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