The GAfuels Blog is written by two private pilots concerned about the future availability of fuels for piston-engine aircraft: Dean Billing, Sisters, Ore., an expert on autogas and ethanol, and Kent Misegades, Cary, N.C., an aerospace engineer and aviation journalist. You know that your political agenda is in trouble when the Tea Party movement agrees […]
UL91 to be renamed NLA
The GAfuels Blog is written by two private pilots concerned about the future availability of fuels for piston-engine aircraft: Dean Billing, Sisters, Ore., an expert on autogas and ethanol, and Kent Misegades, Cary, N.C., an aerospace engineer and aviation journalist. One unleaded aviation fuel that gets little press coverage is UL 91, approved by ASTM […]
Second thoughts on ethanol
The GAfuels Blog is written by two private pilots concerned about the future availability of fuels for piston-engine aircraft: Dean Billing, Sisters, Ore., an expert on autogas and ethanol, and Kent Misegades, Cary, N.C., an aerospace engineer and aviation journalist. In the rapidly-developing debate over future aviation fuels, Mogas is gaining in popularity, as seen […]
The problem isn’t ethanol, it’s BOB
The GAfuels Blog is written by two private pilots concerned about the future availability of fuels for piston-engine aircraft: Dean Billing, Sisters, Ore., an expert on autogas and ethanol, and Kent Misegades, Cary, N.C., an aerospace engineer and aviation journalist. The aviation alphabets and pilots need to understand something about ethanol-blended gasoline and blending laws: […]
Do you have what it takes to be a JAARS pilot?
The fall fly-in of the Carolinas Virginia Antique Airplane Foundation (VAA3.org) in Camden, S.C., was just an hour south of Waxhaw, N.C., so my wife and I rerouted our travels from Raleigh to allow a stop by JAARS, the “Jungle and Aviation Radio Service,” located near this small town a few miles southeast of Charlotte. […]
‘Washing’ ethanol out of mogas
The GAfuels Blog is written by two private pilots concerned about the future availability of fuels for piston-engine aircraft: Dean Billing, Sisters, Ore., an expert on autogas and ethanol, and Kent Misegades, Cary, N.C., an aerospace engineer and aviation journalist. The process of separating ethanol out of unleaded auto fuel is a much discussed topic […]
Sweden’s Hjelmco Oil in center of European unleaded initiative
While the future of 100LL and its proposed replacement remain unclear in the U.S., Europe will have solved the problem by the end of 2011, according to Lars Hjelmberg, founder and CEO of Sweden’s Hjelmco Oil. The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has just issued Safety Information Bulletin (SIB) Number 2010-31, clearing Hjelmco’s unleaded avgas […]
E15: Let the lawsuits begin!
The GAfuels Blog is written by two private pilots concerned about the future availability of fuels for piston-engine aircraft: Dean Billing, Sisters, Ore., an expert on autogas and ethanol, and Kent Misegades, Cary, N.C., an aerospace engineer and aviation journalist. Few proposals from the EPA have generated broader opposition than increasing the allowable limit on […]
An open letter to the EPA regarding Mogas
The GAfuels Blog is written by two private pilots concerned about the future availability of fuels for piston-engine aircraft: Dean Billing, Sisters, Ore., an expert on autogas and ethanol, and Kent Misegades, Cary, N.C., an aerospace engineer and aviation journalist. Dear EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson: The RFS mandate in EISA 2007 is not a mandatory […]