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Flying G100UL Avgas: No Big Deal

We flew the first high-octane unleaded avgas to be certificated. Everything was routine—nothing special was required—and that’s a very big deal.

Rick Durden
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Omar Filipovic

AOPA’s leased Beech Baron C55 is running 100LL through the right engine and high-octane unleaded G100UL avgas through the left engine.

It was no big deal.

We flew the AOPA Baron that is running 100LL through the right engine and General Aviation Modification Inc.’s (GAMI’s) (www.gami.com) FAA-certified G100UL avgas through the left engine for over three hours and came away from it going ho-hum.

Rick Durden

Senior Editor Rick Durden has written for Aviation Consumer since 1994 and specializes in aviation law. Rick is an active CFII and holds an ATP with type ratings in the Douglas DC-3 and Cessna Citation. He is the author of The Thinking Pilot’s Flight Manual or, How to Survive Flying Little Airplanes and Have a Ball Doing It, Vols. 1 & 2.