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On Feb 24, 9:09 am, "Jay Honeck" wrote:
I had an airplane that I had to sacrifice for graduate school 4 years
ago. Now finish and looking to get back in the game, I find local
avgas prices in my area range from over $6 to over $7!!! (Up from
$2.30).

Two words: Car gas.

Make sure your plane can run on it (most can), and make sure you live in
a
state that doesn't pollute all of their gas with alcohol -- and flying
can
still be affordable.

We have run 9000+ gallons of regular unleaded 87 octane car gas through
our
home-made fuel truck (see it
hehttp://www.alexisparkinn.com/new_mighty_grape.htm) into our airplanes,
at a
savings of well over $1.00 (sometimes $2.00+) per gallon.

Do the math -- it'll pay for your truck and make flying less expensive.
AND, best of all, most planes run *better* on unleaded fuel. It's one
of
very few win-win situations in aviation.
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Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Pretty cool!

Any club or FBO I've been in forbid refueling in the hangar.

I never dug deep to find out why. I can only suppose they didn't want
to lose an airplane AND a building.

Dan

That's the rule here, too. We can have it parked right in front of the
hangar but no part of the airplane can be across the door threshold. I
assume it is for the reason you state.

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*H. Allen Smith*
WACO - We are all here, because we are not all there.