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Scouring the information super airways can sometimes be a tough, if educational, task for the Aero-News staff... but it also allows us to check out some truly neat and exciting sites, so it's not that bad a gig. On any given day, we may check dozens (and often hundreds) of different sources for story ideas, and facts confirmation. And, as is the nature of our business, much of this is done on the Internet.

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Aero Linx: Petersen Aviation-Auto Fuel STCs

The use of auto fuel is the best thing that has happened to general aviation in the last three decades. In an era when the cost of flying has inflated to ridiculously high levels, Auto Fuel STCs have done more than anything else to reduce costs. The price difference between auto fuel (mogas) and aviation fuel (avgas) is significant. An airplane averaging 15 gallons per hour, at a savings of only 50 cents per gallon will cost $7.50 per hour less to operate than when using avgas. In 200 hours, this adds up to $1500. Savings of even half this amount would clearly justify the installation of an Auto Fuel STC. Many of our customers use mogas simply because their airplanes run better on it than they do on 100LL which contains twice as much lead as regular leaded auto fuel prior to the lead reductions which took place in 1986. This excess lead contributes to a host of problems including fouled plugs and sticking valves. Many pilots are switching to mogas simply due to an increasingly limited supply of 100LL. In many regions of the world, it is next to impossible to find 100LL at any price.

FMI: http://www.autofuelstc.com/