marcum@fortune.UUCP (Alan M. Marcum) (01/19/84)
From the AOPA Newsletter, some interesting statistics (presumably derived from the FAA) for FY1982. The third busiest airport in the country -- busier than LA Int'l, Santa Ana, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Oakland -- was Van Nuys. Fourth was Long Beach! The top 5: AIRPORT % General Aviation O'Hare 6.9% Atlanta Intl 6.0 Van Nuys 99.0 Long Beach 97.5 LA Intl 12.6 Fuel economy numbers prove interesting, too. Avg Statute Seat TYPE SEATS MPG MPG MPH hrs/1000mi Compact Car 4 23 92 55 18.2 C-172 4 17 68 140 7.1 C-172RG 4 16 64 156 6.4 Mooney 201 4 15 60 192 5.2 C-T210 6 13 78 206 4.9 Citation 7.5 3 23 414 2.4 Lear 55 10 3 30 524 1.9 DC-9 89 .335 30 384 2.6 L-1011 214 .178 38 494 2.0 B747 317 .138 44 507 2.0 Aviation fatalities amounted to only 3.2% of total transportation deaths (highway: 91.1, marine: 3.4, railroad: 2.3). Finally, general aviation accounted for 67% of the tower controlled operations, and 41% of the instrument approaches (air carrier: 34%). We flew over 36,000 hours, over 4.7 billion miles (air carrier, incl. commuters: 3.3 billion). Now, then, let's begin with level flight......... Alan M. Marcum Fortune Systems, Redwood City, California ...!hplabs!hpda!fortune!rhino!marcum
kadkade@cwruecmp.UUCP (Sudhir Kadkade) (01/26/84)
Is it fair to compare the MPGs of the various modes of transportation listed when they use different types of fuel? Does anybody have some other estimate for fuel efficiency, not just based on the relative MPGs (or the inclusion of relative fuel prices in those)? Sudhir Kadkade