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ctennis1 | 2 years ago

There's also distribution problems. Jet fuel aside, most airports only have one tank for servicing avgas. Once they switch over to non-leaded, now they have a customer base that may not be able to buy from them. Those revenues go to fund the airport operation.

There's going to have to be a concerted effort to fix type certificates and fuel distribution all at the same time. A slow effort is going to be more problematic.

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JumpCrisscross|2 years ago

> Once they switch over to non-leaded, now they have a customer base that may not be able to buy from them

G100L is approved for all piston aircraft [1]. The only reason someone couldn't buy from them would be obstinacy.

[1] https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2022/september/...

labcomputer|2 years ago

Not so fast. G100UL can be approved for all piston engine aircraft. There is not a blanket approval.

You still have to go here (https://stc.g100ul.com/aircraft/) and buy paperwork that makes your individual airframe and engine legal. What the FAA approved was for GAMI to sell that paperwork for all piston aircraft.

saalweachter|2 years ago

I wonder what the Venn diagram of single-engine plane owners and people who don't like being told what to do looks like.

[I am seriously curious; on the one hand, owning and flying a small plane is an expensive, privileged hobby which tends towards the lower-upper-class demographic, but it also requires complying with a shit-ton of government regulation and direction already.]