While GAMI may have extensively tested the fuel, it certainly has not been tested widely in the market. In fact, about two weeks ago reports of G100UL damaging paint on airplanes are KRHV were all over this site and others. Additionally, I don’t think many high compression engines have been tested with this fuel. Just because it is available does not yet mean it is 100% ready for wide deployment. A good approach would be to slowly deploy it and see what happens. I would prefer to allow others to be guinea pigs and try out the new fuel before I rush to put it in my airplane. If that was all that was available on my airport, then my free choice would be to fly somewhere else until more is known. The idea that for patent reasons they didn’t want to allow testing anywhere else makes no sense. I only need a microscopic sample to put it into a mass spectrometer to see what exactly is in the fuel. There are no REAL secrets. There are lots of things that appear to work perfectly in the laboratory, but once released to the masses things start to show up. Think about how many perfect products get recalled or how many ADs are out there for well tested products. Why is this any different? It is unlikely airplanes are going to immediately fall out of the sky, but imagine if you need to overhaul your engine. It might cost you $50K and with the backlog your plane could be down for 6+ months. It seems prudent to roll this out more systematically before applying a forcing function.
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