C’mon Tommy, the rollout of 100UL is exciting no matter where you are. These are only the first rollouts. I’m sure Russ will not report every single one, but perhaps, for your sake, the first one or two in each state. Good on you! —Kevin
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I find this topic fascinating, and thank you, Russ, for letting us know - you may post something that I find uninteresting some day, and I’ll quietly click past it, and wait for tomorrow’s news.
I didn’t realize G100UL doesn’t require grounding the nozzle to the aircraft filler port when dispensing. That’s an awesome safety feature! They must have a proprietary anti static formula.
Being the first to adopt something new with a lot of unanswered questions and possibly expensive liabilities is daunting, but as soon as one or two jump in, the rest will follow. It looks like GAMI may have finally managed to break thru. Hopefully we will see it popping up all over the country and begin to have a large number of real world testers. I still don’t have a dog in this fight, but I look forward to seeing the contenders well-vetted.
We appreciate the reporting and are investigating ways to get unleaded 100 at our airport.
I’m not “excited” about paying more for 100 octane fuel (that my O-320 does not require). For the love of all that is holy quit pushing the one-fuel-fits-all for GA.
GA is dying on the vine. Forcing (yet again) a higher priced fuel is not a solution. Well, it’s a solution to further handicap the roots of GA.
So, $2-ish more per gallon. That’s not insignificant.
The other local airports are selling UL94 for $7.60 and 100LL for $6.20.
So I’d expect that the G100UL will be more costly. ?
I just called Watsonville Airport and they indicated it will be $6.75/gallon and self service only (at least for now) - versus 100LL which is $6.25 and $6.75 for self serve and full serve respectively. I don’t know if that is introductory pricing.