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Delete Morgan County UT and Chreighton NE from the mogas list.
Jim |
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Is there a "mogas list"?
I tried http://www.rst-engr.com/mogas but got a 'page not found' "RST Engineering" wrote in message ... Delete Morgan County UT and Chreighton NE from the mogas list. Jim |
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No. Airnav.com lists both of them as having mogas.
Jim "Steve Foley" wrote in message news:hyzBe.2614$bw6.336@trndny03... Is there a "mogas list"? I tried http://www.rst-engr.com/mogas but got a 'page not found' "RST Engineering" wrote in message ... Delete Morgan County UT and Chreighton NE from the mogas list. Jim |
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The folks out there who use mogas have cobbled together an ad-hoc list
of where to buy it from.. usually from first person reports on here. Airnav lists what the airfields report to the FAA and what users report to airnav.. but "saying you sell mogas" and actually "SELLING mogas" are two different things. I haven't kept up with "the list" too much since the project plane isnt flying yet. Once it does, I will be compiling my list for reference, but honestly, I will probably just use blue stuff when fueling out. Dave |
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Platte Valley Colorado, 18V, consistently has the lowest fuel prices in
Colorado. Their mogas is 91 octane before the additives are added. Current fuel prices (7/14/05) are $2.50 for mogas and $2.65 for 100LL. Platte Valley is north of Denver by about 20 miles. |
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The lack of mogas at most airports is proving to be a real problem for
me. 100LL fouls my spark plugs badly. Having a canard aircraft, I prefer long runways. The few airports that have mogas seem to be small fields with short runways. I'm ordering some TCP from Aircraft Spruce for an upcoming long trip, in case I'm forced to use that evil leaded stuff. Options I've looked at to get mogas: 1. Contact EAAers in the planned fuel stop area, to see if they can help with re-fueling. Might mean several trips to a local gas station with 5 gallon cans. My Long-EZ is too small to carry 5 gallon cans onboard. 2. Contact companies that deliver fuel to farmers. I did this for McCook NE, they wanted 200 gallon minimum, so that idea doesn't seem too feasible. I also asked the FBO at McCook if they could obtain Mogas for me - no go, even though they have extensive ag operations. 3. Get a fuel-transfer pump system that can transfer fuel from a car fuel tank to the airplane, that runs on 12V from a cigarette lighter plug or clips to the car battery terminals. There does not seem to be such a thing, so I would have to build it. At least this could be small and light enough to keep onboard the plane. Then you might have to explain to the FBO that you are going to pump the gas out of the loaner car into your airplane, then go into town to top off the car tank again! Would probably have to make a couple trips as car tanks are not that large either. Any other ideas? 18V looks good, but as is typical of airports that have mogas, the runway might be a little short for a canard at such a high density altitude field. Doug wrote: Platte Valley Colorado, 18V, consistently has the lowest fuel prices in Colorado. Their mogas is 91 octane before the additives are added. Current fuel prices (7/14/05) are $2.50 for mogas and $2.65 for 100LL. Platte Valley is north of Denver by about 20 miles. |
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3. Get a fuel-transfer pump system that can transfer fuel from a car fuel
tank to the airplane, that runs on 12V from a cigarette lighter plug or clips to the car battery terminals. They make some 12v pumps for the tanks farmers put in the back of their trucks. I'll bet you could modify one of those. Any other ideas? Have you ever seen the calapsable 5 gallon water bladders that campers use? Maybe you could find something like that for gasoline. Or, maybe you could call a tow truck. Some of them carry gas. You might be able to talk them into bringing you some. |
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floater wrote:
3. Get a fuel-transfer pump system that can transfer fuel from a car fuel tank to the airplane, that runs on 12V from a cigarette lighter plug or clips to the car battery terminals. There does not seem to be such a thing, so I would have to build it. I did exactly this, but for a different reason. I bought a cheap 12V fuel pump at the auto parts store, mounted it to a wooden platform with an on-off switch, and put some long bits of tubing on either end. I clip it to the plane/car's battery, and use it to transfer fuel from one tank to the other on my COZY when I'm on the ground, working on the plane. It could easily do what you ask, at about 2-3 gallons/min. or so. IIRC, it cost me about $25, and is pretty small. -- Marc J. Zeitlin http://marc.zeitlin.home.comcast.net/ http://www.cozybuilders.org/ Copyright (c) 2005 |
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On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 20:51:08 GMT, floater
wrote: The lack of mogas at most airports is proving to be a real problem for me. 100LL fouls my spark plugs badly. Having a canard aircraft, I prefer What engine are you running? I found that switching to REM37BY plugs helped a lot with the plug fouling. This was on an 0-235 also an 0-320 Ed Sullivan |
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