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Takeoff is done at max power as best practice, not because it's physically strictly required power for lift-off. Yes you'd need to reduce weight tables and frie
by jdashg 6y ago
Takeoff is done at max power as best practice, not because it's physically strictly required power for lift-off. Yes you'd need to reduce weight tables and friends, but a certified detuning is totally possible, even if an in-the-field loss of power is cause for grounding.
- sokoloff 6y agoA certified detuning is indeed theoretically possible, at the expense of having to re-flight test the airplane to determine and prove the new performance tables as part of the STC for that fuel, which any new fuel vendor will likely find to be a prohibitive barrier to sell the fuel to the public. The "all models STC" approach with a "no degradation in performance" judgment is much more desirable for the fuel vendor seeking to sell the fuel, for the FBO who only wants to sell one version of avgas and one mix of Jet fuel, and for the owners of heavy piston-powered airplanes and therefore more likely to succeed (IMO).