That's pretty cool. Although it does make the plane a high-horsepower/complex (HHC), whereas the avgas one *isn't*. Meaning you can't use one to take your license, and technically you can't solo in one either. I got my licence in a 172 and the only time I ever flew 150/152s was for doing spins. The 172 is much smoother, not to mention another 20kts cruise.
However, it does introduce the issue of cold starts. I have never looked at the specs of a piston engine running on JP-5 (JP-3?).
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