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Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 06:23:04 -0700
From: Perry Mick <pjmick@verizon.net>
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I've been talking to David Statten about the mogas frappr map. He told 
me about a webpage that shows mogas locations.

http://www.chouby.com/apps/autogas.html

It's interesting that mogas is readily available in the eastern half of 
the country but almost non-existant in the west.
A lot of the places shown are seaplane bases, which are useless to me.
In California, I recently tanked up in Modesto, that is the only place 
shown in all of California that is not a seaplane base.

Anyway, I would like to expand the mogas frappr map into a new direction.

I've found that mogas locations are just too few and far between. In my 
travels, I've had to use the internet to contact people along my route 
who are canard builders or flyers or otherwise EAA types to help me 
obtain mogas.

I'm proposing we use the mogas frappr page and expand it, call it M.A.N. 
or Mogas Assistance Network. This will consist of people coast-to-coast 
who are sympathetic to us mogas users who will help us obtain mogas when 
we travel.

In 2002 I flew my rotary plane from Oregon to Kansas and back, via 
Montana. EAA folks in the Billings chapter helped me obtain mogas both 
coming and going.

In 2005 I flew from Oregon to Kansas via Ogden Utah, and Cozy builder 
Rick Irwin helped me gas up.

Recently I flew to Columbia CA and LongEZ flyer Steve Emley helped me 
obtain mogas in Klamath Falls OR.

And there is a LongEZ builder in Logan Utah who will help me obtain gas 
this coming summer on another trip to Kansas.

There is a Subaru Cozy IV from southern California who will stop here in 
Oregon on his way to and from Seattle next week, Al Wick and I will help 
him obtain mogas.

So I suggest we start M.A.N. and advertise it on all the internet lists 
associated with homebuilding, EAA, rotary engines, canards, etc.

People can put their name and contact info on the map, so when we 
travel, we can contact the people on our route to help us obtain mogas. 
The benefit for the helpers is they get to see some interesting 
homebuilts and meet some fellow travellers in this hobby.

Feedback welcome.

Perry Mick
http://www.ductedfan.com