Mark Wrathall wrote:

Marc Wiese wrote:

Subject: Flying to Russia

Hello everyone. Just wanted to let you know that the U.S. and

Russia,

after months and years of work, have finalized a VFR routing to
Provideniya, Chukotka--the first "major" town with an airport

across the

Bering Sea from Nome, Alaska.

Brian Staurseth at the FAA office in Alaska called me today with

the

good news. He will be publishing the notam along with a webpage

around

May 1 with details. He was an excited camper and wants to

encourage as

many pilots as possible to make the trip. The people in this

part of

Russia are quite poor, and there is hope to develop tourism to

help the

local economy.

Does the agreement make it legal to go West from Provideniya all the

way to

Europe?

I remember that Russian AN2 planes widely used for local air

transportation in

Siberia used a green higher octane gasoline. Forgot its octane

number. Does

anyone know it?
Jerzy Krasinski

Green is 130, you can smell the lead at arms length.  I had to use it in
the Caribbean anywhere south of Martinique down to Venezuela.  No such
thing as 100 down there.  I was running the 150 hp (low compression) Lyc
and had no problems because I leaned AGGRESSIVELY.    Taxi with the

mixture

so far out it will barely run.  Lean for best power at all altitudes and
had it running 25-50 degrees lean in cruise yes I know that's not
recommended.  I have 2 mags (no high powered electronic ignition) and

put

75 hours on the plugs before I had a chance to pull them and they were

fine.

Mike

Mike McGee, RV-4 N996RV, O320-E2G, Hillsboro, OR
13B in gestation mode

This may be country specific, as green was 100/110 (the non low lead version
of avgas) in New Zealand. I think the high octane warbird fuel (115/145 ?)
was purple there.

I thought that russian GA was set up to run on about 87 octane, but can't
name a source to back that up. Don't we have any russians on here?

Mark Wrathall

 
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