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In Tuesday's EAGLE working group call, Vitol announced that they have begun their initial large-batch blend of G100UL... 1 million gallons... at their facility in Baton Rouge. They didn't share distribution details, but I expect we'll see some of that here in California fairly soon... In a...

Those of us fortunate enough to be able to use BasicMed for our flying, and thereby avoid the expense and delay of CAMI intervention, have to take the Basic Med online medical education course (OMEC) every two years. This seemed to work well, both with the AOPA course and the Mayo Clinic...

I've recently communicated with the California Air Resources Board (CARB) about this. It's a twisty tale. CARB's opinion is that the federal government has pre-empted ether, including ETBE, legality, so that CARB is not concerned. California law is twisty. 1) California law defines aircraft as...

Generally, the only engines that need to endure the Lycoming additive (TCP or TPP depending on whose formulation) are the O320H2AD and the handful of other engines where it's required by AD. It would be even better if someone got an AMOC approved to use CamGuard instead of TCP/TPP, but there's...

AVWEB reports this morning that Phillips has paused unleaded avgas testing due to failure of the fuel. That leaves Swift, who says their fuel may not satisfy all of the fleet, Lyondell who plans to combine Swift's and Phillips technologies for a best/worst mashup, and of course GAMI's fuel...

Please sign this petition to save Aviators' Restaurant at KSAC!!! https://chng.it/4PbtwBpCKg Chick who has held the lease on this location for almost 25 years was recently informed that his lease would not be renewed in the interest of attracting an "upscale" vendor to take his place. Any...

OSHKOSH 2022 Please considering attending BOTH of these critical presentations at OSHKOSH this year. If you come by GAMI's booth (Building C - - middle of North wall) on Monday Morning (doors open at 0900) we may have some information for your to consider before you attend the FAA/EAGLE...

Here's this afternoon's 10 minute speech by outgoing FAA Administrator Steve Dickson on how we're going to get lead out of avgas by 2030, at the end of the one hour GAMA industry update. These are the same "pillars" we saw in an earlier FAA presentation. One curious comment: we need time to...

I had the classic distracted pilot gear-up experience last Sunday, September 19, on runway 28R at Oakland… I was giving an Alameda Aero Club student a Cardinal RG ride to lunch, as he is interested in buying one. We flew OAK – EDU – 1O2 – EDU – OAK. Along the way, he asked what happened if you...

I'm looking for reports on working with Johnston Aircraft at KTLR, Tulare California. I find myself in need of a prop-strike teardown inspection, and they say they're ready willing and able to help, and with less of a backlog than most shops. Thanks in advance. Paul

Everything You Wanted to Know about Paint Shop Selection & Vinyl Application You have your aircraft paint scheme all picked out! Now the question is, where should I get my aircraft painted, vinyl vs paint? Scheme Designers Owner and Chief Designer, Craig Barnett, will host a free workshop...

Scheme Designers isn’t able to share their message on intelligent paint scheme design via their normal venues of Sun 'n Fun and Oshkosh this year… so instead, they’re inviting us to a virtual forum session online this Thursday at 8PM Eastern, 5PM Pacific (This may be an example of why kids in...

Mike S. wrote: In my commercial flying days I could pull into any appropriate airport in the event fuel was running short. Get gas, nobody except me leaves the plane, get back in the air. Flying from say, Bellingham to Ketchikan with just enough fuel to get there, I've read that landing in...

>> Having trouble contacting Aircraft Spark Plug Service. Did they exit the business? No, they're still around... I just spoke with Jeanne Fenimore; apparently they changed their phone number, and the forwarding recording has expired: (818) 599-6139 Aircraft Spark Plug Service 16152 Valerio...

In the restart Cessnas, Cessna & Lycoming increased maximum oil pressure red line from 100 psig to 115 psig for the restart Cessnas... and made another virtual increase of 10 psig by relocating the sensing point from the back of the engine to the front of the engine, where the pressure is lower...

I landed at Maxson Field, Alexandria Bay, New York, 89NY, July 27, 2012 and was pleased to find that there’s a new owner/operator of the field who is making efforts to improve conditions. He’s a recent pilot, and bought the airport to make sure it was available for his C182 trips from Oneida...

I'd like to RON next week, but the FBO phone is disconnected. I called the owner, got a secretary, she said landing is not recommended. But I don't see a NOTAM for field closed, like two years ago, when I went elsewhere, but ops apparently continued. Any local info, or know any local pilots...

I'm generally happy with my Garmin AERA 560, and I was very pleased to see it has a logbook function. However, the function is of very limited utility if one is unable to export the resultant information. Garmin says they don't support export, though the data is in there, and someone could...