On 29 Apr 2007 20:47:01 -0700, Jay Honeck wrote:

If your engine was quitting on final, I would have some serious
maintenance done on your Cub -- *or* I'd carefully check the quality
of your fue

Sorry, but that's the way it happened, and as a result (plus the fact
that the instructors didn't like the smell) that the airport yanked
the STCs on its Cubs. They have operated on 100LL for the past two
years, with none of the quitting problems that afflicted them in cold
weather during the mogas era.

I appreciate that the experience is politically incorrect, and I knew
it would upset people. But it wasn't my experience, and it wasn't my
Cub; I was only a renter. Scores of other pilots flew the Cubs with
mogas and had the experience of engines quitting in cold weather. He
restarted it by diving at the beach.) For this airport, and its two
rental Cubs, mogas was a bad experience.

The airport still sells mogas. I buy it for all my small engines,
since this part of the state went to ethanol-diluted gasoline last
fall.

Say it ain't so, if you like. But it was so.

Blue skies! -- Dan Ford