Aviation View - Dec 2023

175 AVIATION VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 3, ISSUE 4 Discover the DA62. Experience the ultimate flying machine. With exceptional fuel efficiency, state-of-the-art avionics and a spacious luxury cabin, the twin-engine, seven-seater DA62 moves more passengers farther and faster than anything else in its class. Currently, St. Clair is a proud distributor of TITAN Aviation Fuel, and provides aircraft with Full Service at the incredible price of $6.25 per gallon. From a price standpoint alone, the price is already a sure winner against the more common $7 per gallon featured at most other airports in the area, especially the larger ones. However, price isn’t the only area that St. Clair wins because the majority of larger airports in the area, places like Waterloo, don’t offer full service at all. So, in other places, airlines pay more and need their refueling teams, while St. Clair simply takes care of the entire refueling and maintenance process on its own and at a much lower price. Director Fiore also ensures that a high quality of service is extended back to the airport itself, specifically in the areas of runway renovations and the maintenance of natural wildlife and obstructions. St. Clair has two runways. There’s the main runway, Runway 0422, which is 5,100 feet and equipped with an instrument approach (ILS), and a smaller secondary runway, Runway 1028, at 4,000 feet. And while these are smaller than most runways, it’s their versatility that makes them so useful. Runway 0422 is a north-south facing lane, while 1028 is a crosswind runway, and this gives pilots greater flexibility when it comes to landing, especially in windy weather. “When planes are flying, they want to fly into the wind when they’re taking off and landing. But when you’re [flying north] and have a wind coming in from the west… well, that gets a little dicey,” Fiore says, explaining that St. Clair’s flexible runway options give pilots the added benefit of assured safe landing even in sub-optimal circumstances. With those two lanes being so important, making sure that theystay inpristine condition is paramount, and Director Fiore goes through several efforts to ST. CLAI R COUNT Y INTERNAT IONAL AI RPORT