pilotyoung
Well Known Member
I bought my RV-12 in February. I have flown it about 60 hours and I am getting between 5 and 6 gallons per fuel burn. I seem to remember than Van's says you get 4.5 hours.
I flew from Birmingham, AL (KEET) to (KLUX), then to Triple Tree this weekend. I stopped for fuel at KLUX before going on to Triple Tree. I flew home straight from Triple Tree, without adding fuel at Triple Tree. I averaged between 5.5 and 6 gallons an hour of fuel burn for this trip.
One other observation from the trip is that the fuel guage reads about 1 gallon low. I landed at KLUX, the fuel guage said 5 gallons, but I only put in 13.95 gallons to completely fill the tank. When I landed at KEET, the fuel guage said 4 gallons, but I only put in 15 to competely fill the tank.
So I am worndering if something is not set correctly and I am burning more fuel than I should. The aircraft runs fine, it trues in the 115 range with thewheel pants off. Twice this weekend it seemed everythig fas fine except I shold hve ben burning 45 gal per hour instead of hte higher figrel.
So this is my experiencel I m wondeing what others are experiencig with fuel burn nubers in he standard 912 ULS engine?n
I flew from Birmingham, AL (KEET) to (KLUX), then to Triple Tree this weekend. I stopped for fuel at KLUX before going on to Triple Tree. I flew home straight from Triple Tree, without adding fuel at Triple Tree. I averaged between 5.5 and 6 gallons an hour of fuel burn for this trip.
One other observation from the trip is that the fuel guage reads about 1 gallon low. I landed at KLUX, the fuel guage said 5 gallons, but I only put in 13.95 gallons to completely fill the tank. When I landed at KEET, the fuel guage said 4 gallons, but I only put in 15 to competely fill the tank.
So I am worndering if something is not set correctly and I am burning more fuel than I should. The aircraft runs fine, it trues in the 115 range with thewheel pants off. Twice this weekend it seemed everythig fas fine except I shold hve ben burning 45 gal per hour instead of hte higher figrel.
So this is my experiencel I m wondeing what others are experiencig with fuel burn nubers in he standard 912 ULS engine?n