Unleaded Avgas Tested in White Lightning RV-14

Unleaded Avgas Tested in White Lightning RV-14

For those of you who are interested in general aviation and the eventual transition to an unleaded replacement for 100LL avgas, I thought you would like to see my report for the December Aviation Consumer magazine on flying G100UL in the White Lightning RV-14 October 1st.

For those of you who are interested in general aviation and the eventual transition to an unleaded replacement for 100LL avgas, I thought you would like to see my report for the December Aviation Consumer magazine on flying G100UL in the White Lightning RV-14 October 1st. Editor Larry Anglisano introduces the report with his remarks in the magazine.

Below is the full article, to be published in Aviation Consumer magazine.

G100UL unleaded avgas is distinguished visually from standard 100LL by color -- which is light green instead of blue.

 

The unleaded fuel worked great.  By the way, I landed with 11 gallons or G100UL remaining in the right tank. I later added an equal amount of 100LL to test the fungibility of the fuel. There were no detectable or measurable differences in operation. 

Read the full article for details:

https://www.audioauthority.com/downloads/literature/2023_Aviation_Consumer_G100UL_Flight_Trial.pdf