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JSeward

14th May 2013 11:49

Operating costs estimation

Hello,

Just read on avweb that a good way to estimate the hourly cost for a plane is to take fuel burn costs per hour and double it. Seems to be reasonable for the 182 I currently fly. Would this work on twins as well?

Talking about pistons here by the way.

Thanks

FrankR

14th May 2013 14:58

It's a good rule of thumb that has been around a long time to estimate direct operating costs.

Jet fuel is around $5.50 per USG, and a G550 burns around 450 gallons per hour, or $2,475... x2 gets you just under $5,000, which is reasonable for DOC.

FR

gordon field

14th May 2013 17:00

Wouldn't work for a DA42 Twin Star.

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