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Larry Anglisano
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Omar Filipovic

THE AVGAS DEBACLE

I, for one, can’t wait for unleaded avgas. But, let me say the unleaded fuel dilemma is a crisis of our own making. For the past 50 years, we’ve known the day would come when unleaded avgas would be mandated. Yet, it’s taken an existential threat to spur us into action.  So, shame on us.

PAFI, and now EAGLE, are a joke. There are too many competing interests within them to ever have any hope of a universal fuel being created and approved by them. GAMI and Swift took the initiative and elected to bypass politics to develop a solution. GAMI won. Now, we have what is by all appearances a situation in which those that lost the race are deliberately throwing up roadblocks in a (so far successful it seems) effort to thwart progress of the industry’s migration to unleaded fuel. To what gain one might ask?

Larry Anglisano

Editor in Chief Larry Anglisano has been a staple at Aviation Consumer since 1995. An active land, sea and glider pilot, Larry has over 30 years’ experience as an avionics repairman and flight test pilot. He’s the editorial director overseeing sister publications Aviation Safety magazine, IFR magazine and is a regular contributor to KITPLANES magazine with his Avionics Bootcamp column.