Great reality check by Chris in actually calculating the distance from the East Coast to Alaska. 6,238NM. Wow!! So if we burn 9 gals/hour at an average cruise speed of 115kts that means we'll burn around 488 gallons of Avgas. If we figure an average price of $5.50/gallon that comes to a fuel bill of about $2685. Add to that about a quart of oil for every five hours plus one complete oil change and we are up to around $2800. Mmmmm........??
Well I guess the good news is that even if we eat in restaurants every day our food bill won't be nearly as much as our fuel bill.
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