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Old 31st May 2016, 09:57
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Hi anyone know of a place to uplift a tank of Jet A1 near Edinburgh without the horrendous landing charges of Edinburgh, for a Alouette 11 going to Edinburgh and return back to Yorkshire
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Cumbernauld.
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300 nm range. Does it need to refuel?
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Carlisle EGNC is almost on the track... cost ya about 20 quid.
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300 nm range. Does it need to refuel?
Red eye I guess you've not had any time on Alouette yet lol
With a plus 20 kt headwind the old girl proberbly won't get there on a full tank never mind return home
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It's a big load carrier. Could you have a portable ferry tank in the back ?
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Or, drop pax at destination, pop over to CBN and refuel, collect Pax and return south.
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that maybe a problem who would take her for fuel -no pax
doesn't matter anymore now too much headwind and poor wx so he's scratched
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