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Offline Puma44

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Diesel Cessna 172
« on: March 29, 2019, 05:49:04 PM »
Seen on the ramp this week.












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Re: Diesel Cessna 172
« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2019, 05:52:54 PM »
Love the descriptions  :rofl
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Re: Diesel Cessna 172
« Reply #2 on: March 29, 2019, 06:01:51 PM »
Is it the effect from excessive diesel fumes that require all those reminders?
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Re: Diesel Cessna 172
« Reply #3 on: March 29, 2019, 06:04:55 PM »
Must be. It was also amazingly quiet when it taxied in.
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Re: Diesel Cessna 172
« Reply #4 on: March 29, 2019, 06:12:03 PM »
Quote from: Puma44 on March 29, 2019, 06:04:55 PM
Must be. It was also amazingly quiet when it taxied in.

Thart's no diesel, thart's electric!
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Offline Busher

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Re: Diesel Cessna 172
« Reply #5 on: March 29, 2019, 06:41:45 PM »
I don't have the slightest idea what 100LL avgas is priced at now nor diesel for that matter, but I suppose it could be a money saver if you don't mind leaving a smoke trail.
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Re: Diesel Cessna 172
« Reply #6 on: March 29, 2019, 07:07:57 PM »
Quote from: Busher on March 29, 2019, 06:41:45 PM
I don't have the slightest idea what 100LL avgas is priced at now nor diesel for that matter, but I suppose it could be a money saver if you don't mind leaving a smoke trail.


Around here, 100LL has been in the $5.50ish range, +/-.
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Offline Meatwad

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Re: Diesel Cessna 172
« Reply #7 on: March 29, 2019, 07:37:45 PM »
Quote from: Puma44 on March 29, 2019, 06:04:55 PM
Must be. It was also amazingly quiet when it taxied in.


Stick a Detroit diesel in it  :D
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Re: Diesel Cessna 172
« Reply #8 on: March 29, 2019, 07:53:41 PM »
Modern diesels don't really smoke that much, and as Puma noticed they're pretty quite too.
Unlike the Detroit Meatwad would like stuffed in there. Of course with a Detroit it would no longer be capable of flight, but it would be one heck of a hedge trimmer  :rock

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Re: Diesel Cessna 172
« Reply #9 on: March 29, 2019, 08:12:55 PM »
Plus you would hear it coming 10 miles away
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Re: Diesel Cessna 172
« Reply #10 on: March 29, 2019, 08:29:09 PM »
Quote from: SIK1 on March 29, 2019, 07:53:41 PM
Modern diesels don't really smoke that much, and as Puma noticed they're pretty quite too.
Unlike the Detroit Meatwad would like stuffed in there. Of course with a Detroit it would no longer be capable of flight, but it would be one heck of a hedge trimmer  :rock

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Yeah, at first it sounded almost like an electric.  But, the first clue was the spiffy label on the nose.
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Offline pembquist

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Re: Diesel Cessna 172
« Reply #11 on: March 29, 2019, 11:37:49 PM »
But what is it?? I see it has a rudder and a pilots seat and a diesel engine and a static port and all but I still can't tell what it is. Some kind of white winged thing with wheels and a propeller, I'm lost.
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Offline Oldman731

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Re: Diesel Cessna 172
« Reply #12 on: March 29, 2019, 11:38:08 PM »
Lots of people thought that the diesel was a coming thing, with the 100LL lawsuits and all.  But the one you saw is probably the only one you'll see:

https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2018/may/09/cessna-discontinues-turbo-skyhawk-jt-a

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Re: Diesel Cessna 172
« Reply #13 on: March 30, 2019, 09:43:22 AM »
Quote from: Puma44 on March 29, 2019, 07:07:57 PM
Around here, 100LL has been in the $5.50ish range, +/-.

Okay but are local FBO's keeping a fuel truck with diesel? Or would you have to call the local truck stop every time you land on a cross country journey?
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Re: Diesel Cessna 172
« Reply #14 on: March 30, 2019, 10:03:58 AM »
Reminds me of this one:
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