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If they're certified for IFR/IMC, then they'll have a winner methinks...
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Ummm... Isn't diesel fuel hard to come by on a cross-country, or even at most GA Airports?
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designrs wrote:Ummm... Isn't diesel fuel hard to come by on a cross-country, or even at most GA Airports?
The diesel will run on JetA. Avgas is more readily available here in the states, but Jet fuel is more available around the world.
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In the Asian aviation marketplace, 100LL is almost in the same fuel category as Unobtanium.
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So are diesel's equally happy and healthy on both fuels?
Or is there a trade-off someplace like we have with 100LL vs. MOGAS?
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I wish I could burn Jet A in my Roxax... just to smell the money!
Change the scent once in a while!

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designrs wrote:So are diesel's equally happy and healthy on both fuels?
Or is there a trade-off someplace like we have with 100LL vs. MOGAS?
JetA is a high grade kerosene, and different from diesel. That being said I have heard several report of airports using JetA in their diesel powered equipment. Contrary to what CTLSi says a turbine aircraft engine will burn almost anything that is flammable and in liquid or gas form.
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Generally, when referring to aviation diesel engines, the reference is to the combustion cycle, not the fuel, although in some engines the fuel will work, too.
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CTLSi wrote:
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designrs wrote:So are diesel's equally happy and healthy on both fuels?
Or is there a trade-off someplace like we have with 100LL vs. MOGAS?
JetA is a high grade kerosene, and different from diesel. That being said I have heard several report of airports using JetA in their diesel powered equipment. Contrary to what CTLSi says a turbine aircraft engine will burn almost anything that is flammable and in liquid or gas form.
Jet-A kerosene and Diesel #1 are the same thing.

1. Jet-A is a relatively high sulfur fuel, diesel is low sulfur
2. Jet-A is “dry.” Diesel is made in such a way, or additives are mixed in, to lubricate the injector system of a diesel engine
3. Jet-A is closer to kerosene and Diesel #1. Most modern diesel truck engines specify Diesel #2
4. Jet-A and Diesel #1 tend towards lower viscosities than Diesel #2

http://generalaviationnews.com/2011/03/ ... esel-fuel/

Contrary to what 3DDreaming understands is that turbines will burn peanut oil if you ask it too, so what... the CD-155 is not a turbine engine.
It is just like you to try and twist something into something it is not.
My comment was in response to this comment you made, "But not all aviation engines that burn Jet-A will also burn straight non aviation diesel fuel." If the CD-155 and other diesel engines will burn diesel fuel, and turbine engines will burn diesel fuel. What other aviation engines out there that burn JetA will not burn diesel fuel?
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