Roost Air Lounge => Aviation related topics => Topic started by: Baradium on September 19, 2011, 05:21:07 PM
Title: 100VLL
Post by: Baradium on September 19, 2011, 05:21:07 PM
Quote from: AOPA online
The FAA announced on Sept. 14 the approval of a new fuel that meets a “very low lead” (VLL) specification for use in all aircraft currently operating on 100LL. The approval, issued in a special airworthiness information bulletin (SAIB), is the culmination of an effort initiated last year by the members of the GA Avgas Coalition, the petroleum industry, and several engine and airframe manufacturers.
The first paragraph seems pretty spectacular, an actual new fuel to replace 100LL, the first new fuel that has full approval in years (the article goes on to say it will be just as healthy on engines and same power etc etc).
Then you get to this gem:
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Much of the avgas sold today uses less than the maximum amount of lead allowed by the current 100LL specification and already meets the new “very low lead” specification. The addition of 100VLL is an important development in that it more accurately reflects the small amount of lead actually in avgas today.
So in other words, most (if not all) of the current 100LL fuel meets the new standard, so it's just a new wrapper for the same stuff. Even if it "more accurately reflects" the fuel, it doesn't change a single thing about what happens when you burn it.
If you're going to do that, why not just keep the name 100LL and say you are reducing the maximum content... although I guess then it wouldn't be the exciting "new" fuel.
Title: Re: 100VLL
Post by: Mike on September 24, 2011, 04:24:45 PM
looks to me a little like the "Federal Reserve Act" from 1913 . . . . ;)
Title: Re: 100VLL
Post by: Wade.Moeller on November 05, 2011, 06:01:55 PM
If you're going to do that, why not just keep the name 100LL and say you are reducing the maximum content... although I guess then it wouldn't be the exciting "new" fuel.
Because the lawsuits in California are over the use of 100LL fuel. Now they can sell 100VLL fuel and say that the lawsuit is moot due to 100LL being discontinued.
Title: Re: 100VLL
Post by: Mike on November 06, 2011, 12:30:37 AM
good point, and that's probably exactly what happened.....
too many lawyers in this country.....
Title: Re: 100VLL
Post by: Baradium on November 12, 2011, 01:09:05 AM
The idea of pulling one over on the californians does amuse me a bit though.
Title: Re: 100VLL
Post by: Mike on November 12, 2011, 06:07:12 PM
