Originally published at: FAA Expands Approval List For Swift Fuels' 100R Unleaded Avgas
The FAA has expanded the Approved Model List for Swift Fuels’ 100R unleaded aviation gasoline, adding more than 1,200 piston engine models and 1,600 airframes.
Why do you need an STC. Why can’t FAA publish a list of aircraft approved to use this fuel. If an aircraft can use this fuel without any modifications to performance or any modifications to the airframe or power plant why would it need an STC. This is not making sense. Just make it available and aircraft that are approved to use it can just use it. In the days when 80 octane avgas was an available I don’t remember pilots having a problem picking the right fuel for their aircraft. They did not have to have an STC to show the FBO before they bought their avgas. Is the FAA over regulating the aviation system beyond their original congressional mandate now requiring STC’s for everything?
STC’s cost a lot of money to obtrain. The holder is entitled to compensation under our capitalist system, a bit like a trademark or patent.
The STC is $100 per aircraft regardless of type or engine. If you’re a pilot and aircraft owner I can hard see how $100 for a lifetime STC is going to break the bank
I agree with Ehsif727 and KenH. It isn’t a matter of how much it costs. It is a matter of whether or not it is necessary. You can be rich, you can be poor, but why throw $100 and the effort at anything that has no purpose?
Also, the money goes where?
I really don’t think this STC that Swift is supplying to aircraft holders at 100 dollars each is a profit deal. It probably costs that much just to administer the distribution of the STC‘s.
Indeed … where does the money go?
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