"Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in message
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Ken Finney wrote:
"Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in message
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Ken Finney wrote:


IF I ever get a plane, all these silly fuel issues would be a real
irritant. I haven't been paying much attention to the new diesel
aircraft engines becoming available. Since I should be making my
own biodiesel by the end of this Summer (for something less than 45
cents a gallon), are any of the new diesels in the O-200/Rotax 912
class?

You'll never get an STC to put it in a certified aircraft. Better
start thinking experimental.

I already am, but there an STC for diesels in 172s.

Diesels and diesels running Freedom Fry grease are going to require two
very different STCs. Robert posted a link to a outfit with a Biodiesel STC
but I couldn't get the link to work.

As much of the diesel fuel sold today as some biodiesel mixed with it, I'd
hope that the engines being sold are certified for petrodiesel, biodiesel,
and any combination thereof. "Freedom Fry grease" (aka WVO = waste
vegetable oil or SVO = straight vegetable oil) is a different animal than
biodiesel.