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Old 31st May 2012 | 13:32
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bauple58
 
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Adventurer(s) wanted

Thanks for your interest. Haven't done any deatiled planning yet however, here's some initial - albeit, crude - figures:

Aircraft purchase - $30,000
Fuel - 100 hrs @ 15 litres/hour @ $2.50/litre = $3,750
Oil - $500
Accommodation - 20 nights @ $100/night = $2,000
Food - 20 days @ $120 (2 x people) = $2,400
Contingency - $5,000

This suggests around $20,000 (Australian) each which, of course, would be offset by the money we'd recoup from selling the aircraft after we arrived.

As a plane owner myself (and aircraft valuer) I'm knowledgeable enough to know that the global plane market is buggered, with little propspect of this improving anytime soon. Therefore, I'd be approaching this as a once-in-a-lifetime adventure or, as an (initially) expensive holdiay, with the chance that you might eventually recoup some of your outlay (from the plane sale).

Mark
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