I am wondering what will be the solution for when we all run out of AVGAS 100LL. I am currently flying a P68 (IO360) in Saudi Arabia and I am paying 7 USD/liter for Avgas. We are having troubles ordering it and 98 octane Auto fuel is basically for free here.
All the Diesel conversions of flight schools are mostly grounded after a couple of hours due to (Expensive) maintenance (and you always need some guy from Austria to do this) so I lost my faith in that one as well. I am looking forward to Lycoming
and Continental
coming up with a solution to keep flying their engines with another (Existing and cheap) type of fuel! Like Auto Fuel for example and obviously it will be to their advantage too! If they don't come up with something I can see the the majority of aircraft becoming grounded or if you have the money to spend fit a diesel engine and fly it for a very short while until you have to buy another new engine
(Or fit it with ROTAX
maybe, but I don't really like that one either)
Anyway have you guys any good news about this?