And then afterward... Wayne coached me. Around his training course I managed 51.8 mpg using my standard skills.
This is the result of taking the course, again, this time with Wayne telling me what to do and his controlling the FAS -which I must say is a strange experience having someone else turning your key while you drive! The number, here, is after an added around-the-block loop when we discovered the supposed-to-be-last FAS didn't actually work. I did the extra loop to get the timing of the FAS correct and it added a whole two miles per gallon extra to the average (from 58mpg to the displayed 60.6mpg).
When I left Wayne, I was afraid I wouldn't be able to maintain that 60.6 so I spent a couple miles trying to figure out how to come as close to an FAS P&G without actually doing it. Steady-state (cruise control) was quickly killing the average so I flipped it into ECON and, amazing myself, found the throttle sweet-spots. As you can see... highly successful even with a few unavoidable stop signs and stop lights. This is as high as the numbers got for me on this run.
And here's my final tally at my destination. When I turned the car off, I was rewarded with five leaves (or ten, depending on how you look at them) despite having never accelerated in the green!
JP
