Originally Posted by
Old Akro
Many (if not most) competition aerobatic flights take-off with less than 30 min fuel.
That is fine for the very short planned flight overhead the airfield plus 30 mins holding fuel as reserve. We've seen the consequences of the idiots taking much less.
My 30 mins reserve in the IO-540 powered Pitts is 22 litres and I typically start with 70 so I reckon that if I report at the inbound reporting point for my Class D airfield with fuel close to 40 litres then I should call "minimum fuel" - that will happen quite often.