Piper Aircraft reports that all PA-46 based, single-engine turbine-powered aircraft, including the M600/SLS, M500, and Meridian, can now use Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF).
SAF is not only FAA approved via Special Airworthiness Information Bulletin NE-11-56R4, but is available for use in every country where turbine M-Class aircraft operate, Piper officials added.
All jet fuel that meets the requirements of the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) D7566 Standard Specification for Aviation Turbine Fuel Containing Synthesized Hydrocarbons can be used in Piper turbine-powered aircraft. Typically, this fuel is made from fatty acids or other synthetic components, and is acceptable for use in aircraft and engines certified for use with D1655 fuel, more commonly known as traditional Jet A and Jet A-1 fuel, company officials explained.
Using SAF in a Piper turboprop will not require a change in aircraft placarding or Pilot’s Operating Handbooks.
The use of SAF in Piper turboprops follows another recent commitment by the company to promote sustainability in general aviation, initially revealed at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2022, Piper officials noted.
Piper Aircraft and CAE are collaborating on an electrically powered conversion kit via a Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) for in-service Archer TX aircraft. Upon certification, CAE plans to convert two-thirds of its existing Piper Archer TX training fleet, and will be the first to develop a curriculum for new pilots to conduct training in an electric airplane.
Sorry for the errors in my latest post: “avoation” and not aviation and “sag” and not sad.
The common comments about SAF is, in avoation related sites so poor in whole knowledge that makes me sag to realize how low is the cientific facts in the minds of “commentators”. To achieve the substitution of fossil oil through fuels based in acids from plants and/or animals in a ridiculous nonsense. It looks like people are forgetting the now 8 billions of humans already existing, the demand for food to them, the subsequent poverty in the already few existing forests and the enormous quantities of energy necessary for the achievement of those SAFs. It’s time to think in something else, based in a conscious science that is not going, undoubtedly, to end with the natural resources and the GA joys.
Indeed, how stupid is this, the latest push from Big Ag to use food to make very expensive fuel better derived from the most sustainable substance imaginable, fossil fuels: plants and animals die, God turns them into coal, oil and natural gas. The terrible ethanol quotas forced onto gasoline sellers by the Bush administration has resulted in 40% of the national corn crop to be used to make ethanol that guaranteed reduces fuel mileage and massive corrosion problems. Corn used for ethanol means less for humans and livestock, leading to higher consumer prices and starvation for the poor that used to consume our grain surpluses. Under the real president Donald Trump we had $1.50 Mogas and were energy independent. Through the amazing US-made technologies of fracking and directional drilling, we probably would have seen $1/gallon mogas. Instead we now have $10/gal Avgas in many locations, a great way to destroy GA. How stupid is that? The aviation alphabets ought to be fighting for energy independence, fracking everywhere, and a repeal of ethanol quotas, if they really cared about the future of GA.
Sir, please Google how long it takes for deceased plant and animal matter to turn into fossil fuels like coal and oil naturally. Get back to me when it’s done.
So, SAF is made from ‘fatty acids’, which are derived from plants, fish and animal meat…. which, again, is making fuel from foods. [ ie ethanol from corn ].
So, we’re advised to not eat meat, but we’ll ‘grow’ animals for jet fuel….
How stupid is this ?
And, how much more does SAF cost vs ‘normal’ jeta.?