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> . The price of rebuilding all general aviation engines to take lower octane fuel (or possibly ethanol, which has very high octane but a few caveats) has got t
by outworlder 5y ago
> . The price of rebuilding all general aviation engines to take lower octane fuel (or possibly ethanol, which has very high octane but a few caveats) has got to be FAR less than the public/mental health burden of allowing leaded avgas.
Engines are _already_ rebuilt based on number of hours flown. If it was this easy, the cost would be simply absorbed into normal maintenance.
- Robotbeat 5y agoI wasn’t implying it’d be easy. I think it’d be really hard and may even increase general aviation risk in the short term, but every flight using leaded avgas causes harm and I think the status quo bias of regulation is causing us to not weigh that risk appropriately. EDIT: I’m glad that GAMI developed this.