AOPA Pilot Magazine - March 1958 - (Page 39)

Latin American Avgas Prices TYPICAL FUEL COSTS PAID BY CHtlBCH JANuABy-TBBBTTAJtY, 1967 Place of wsreJmt Oatan4 Tampiw, Mexico Veracrui~, Mexico Managua, Nicaragua. Guayaquil, Ecuador Santiago, Chile Puerto Montt, Chile Buenos A h , Argentina Asuncion, Paraguay Caravolaa, Brazil San Juan, Puerto Rim 80 91 91 80 Pries p m gd, fff. 8. 0 205 .a02 .523 .304 .62 ,194 80 91 80 80 80 .I74 .76 .418 .56 80 MES D. CHURCH AOPA $8111 Exclusive of three credit card purchases fof which he had 'not received invoices, Chwch'a gasoline consumption during the trip totaled 1,169 gallonu at s cost of & 1 . 2 i08. screw driver, pliers, a. few wrenches, tiedown ropes and stakes. At the last minute I threw in an extra tube for the tires. The big item was a 24-quart case of oil. This weighed 55 pounds but I considered it necessary. Many foreign airports carry only the heavier grades of oil used in airline engines, and we wanted dependable American oil in the engine at all times. A few days before our departure we had an unexJanuary 1957 that, with a good friend signed on as pected blow which lightened my load by 210 pounds and co-pilot, I decided to fly around the continent. I have a 1948 Cessna 140 with a 90 h.p. Continental increased my cares by a ton. My friend announced tBat engine which I bought used for $1,750. It's had some his leave had been cancelled. Our plans had gone so far, fixing up. In 1956, the wings were recovered with metal however, that I decided to carry on alone, following the and an extra 15-gallon fuel tank was added to give me route we'd charted on our WAC'S. Since you m s enter and leave each country through ut an eight-hour range. I confess that on foreign flights I would rather have this additional gasoline than all the the airports of entry, the location of these airports tends navigational equipment money can buy. Nothing adds to determine the route to be followed. Still, I have found to your peace of mind more than the knowledge that you from experience that one can use almost any airport have fuel enough to reach an open airport beyond your located at a seaport or point where some main highway or railroad crosses a border. Customs and immigration intended 8'topover. We were so loaded with extra gasoline and baggage officials are stationed at these places and can usually be that we could take only a minimum of emergency equip- called out to the airport to clear planes. This was true ment,though much of the flight would be over dangerous of my first stop beyond Panama~Buenaventura,Colomcountry from which there would have been little chance bia. Bad weather in the Colombian central valley forced of escape in case of a forced landing. In addition to two single-man life rafts which were to serve as seat cush- had looked down the coast of South America for years, longing for time and courage to make the big loop around it in my own plane. It may sound crazy, but sometimes the feeling plugs, one exhaust and one intake valve, piston rings, a set of gaskets, a set of brake blocks and retainer clips, a ions, we made up a kit consisting of a machete, spark

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of AOPA Pilot Magazine - March 1958

AOPA Pilot Magazine - March 1958
Contents
Calendar
Legally Speaking
Editorial
What About Airspace Use, Mr. Pyle?
10,000 Seconds Under the Hood
Flying Weather One Month Ahead
AOPA Weathercast
AOPA 185579
Air-Age Teenagers Give City a Lift
Your Radio and You
Operation Cost Cut
Put Your Fabric to the Test
Are You "Compasss Punchy?
Yankee Duster in Latin America
South American Challenge
I Lived Through a Graveyard Spiral
Safety Corner and Accident Report
On the Airways
Travel
What's New?
Classified Department

AOPA Pilot Magazine - March 1958

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