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Old 3rd Mar 2006, 11:02
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Jerrym
 
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Just to give everyone an idea as to how stupid this is, I know some people fairly close to the main 'push' to keep the bowser. They have informed me that BP pumped about 80,000 litres of Avgas at YLEO last year. The JET A1 bowser was shut down at YLEO about 18 months ago because it pumped, wait for it, 600 litres in the previous 12 months.

The main push is to replace the AVGAS bowser with a JET A1 bowser. The push has been through the council by a Western Australia operator for JET A1 to be supplied at YLEO, and there has even been speculation that Money has changed hands under the table. Now this is only speculation, and I can neither prove, or disprove that this is true. I for one, hope it is not the case, as it means that some fairly underhanded tactics have been used to stop Piston operators from being competition in the Northern Goldfields. I hope no one would stoop this low, and I hope it is purely a bad decision on AirBP's part.
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