Oil usage

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Re: Oil usage

Post by Sandy »

When I flew a SportCruiser with a Rotax engine the same thing was true. The reason for low oil consumption is that these are all liquid cooled engines, so they are built with much tighter tolerances than air cooled engines. Therefore they use less oil.

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