3-Day Course on Aviation Fuels - Specifications, Test Methods and Quality Assurance 2016

This comprehensive 3-day course will provide an overview of basic operational issues for aviation engines; the background & application of technical standards governed by ASTM, MOD, IATA, Military and JIG; jet fuel specifications & properties; consumption of fuel by airports; aviation fuel sampling; aviation gasoline grades, jet fuel & avgas manufacture and alternative jet fuels. Important aspects of the course will be: instruction on how specifications are used to control the quality of aviation fuels, practical applications of ASTM test methods; interaction of aviation fuels with aircraft engines; as well as how to deal with off-spec jet fuel properties, additives, quality assurance issues and sampling.