Originally published at: German Flying Club Begins Using Waste-Oil Fuel in Cessnas
Three diesel-powered Cessna 172s at Hamburg Airport have been approved to use renewable fuel made from used cooking oils and plant waste.
There’s a significant learning curve here. As there was with bio diesel fuel in trucks. Injectors and pumps need to be modified, as well as other components, to run effectively. This certainly isn’t a plug and play task. It’s one thing to have a truck quit from fueling issues. Quite another for an aircraft…