At 10:49 AM 9/13/99 -0400, John Cooper wrote: >82UL (unleaded) The spec is approved, but no one is producing it yet, as >far as I know. It's basically auto gas without the oxygenators.
They will be. It will be the new standard for aircraft engines, possibly mandated by the EPA (no lead, you know). As a 'new standard' it will be necessary for the oil companies to find ways to make sure that it gets into distribution (they, and the distributers/jobbers are the real culprits that keep 100LL out of FBOs. Some of them don't produce 80, but won't sell to retailers who don't sell their fuel exclusively). Legislation may even force availability of the new fuel. Oil companies actually like the new fuel, because it gets made in the same facilities that do auto gas, and thus is cheaper to make than even the cheapest unleaded car fuel. Not that anyone cares about us, but those of us who operate one of the majority of planes built for 80 octane fuel will reap a side benefit of the new fuel Greg
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