Fuel Notam

[gerry111]

Originally Posted by 27/09

Other useful information like "haymaking in progress" gets disseminated as well.

At Australia's privatised aerodromes, that information is a given.

[holdingagain]

I appreciate NOTAM when fuel not available
BTW
Quilpie has new fuel facilities according to
www.pprune.org/pacific-general-aviation-questions/536184-no-more-avgas-quilpie

[outnabout]

FYI - I am advised that ICAO require a NOTAM to be issued if Avgas is not advised. However, CASA have decided not to follow this ICAO requirement.

Apparently, in the glorious earlier days of Australian Aviation, when Avgas was available everywhere, airfields would issue NOTAMS advising that fuel was not available at a competing airstrip to encourage aviators to visit them....

[rutan around]

Apparently, in the glorious earlier days of Australian Aviation, when Avgas was available everywhere, airfields would issue NOTAMS advising that fuel was not available at a competing airstrip to encourage aviators to visit them....

Great! Fake fuel NOTAMS cause CASA to no longer allow or require any of them to be issued. Following this line of thinking to it's logical conclusion can we expect any day now to not have to give call signs in the circuit because some pilots have used fake call signs to avoid landing fees?

[rutan around]

I have been advised that AVGAS is now available at YGLA by tanker truck between 8am and 5 pm.

[mostlytossas]

Originally Posted by Lead Balloon

Indeed. As rutan observed and I speculated earlier in the thread, the provision of a service like this is an aberration. It is of assistance only to nobodies and is therefore pointless.I’ve informed friends from other countries of this extraordinary development. Their view of Australia as a third world joke is confirmed rather than changed as a consequence of the announcement that there is a toilet available at Parafield. But it’s great that it’s been announced.

Mustafagander: Call the number in ERSA for YLEC, now, and ask whether fuel is available, now.

I agree that is funny However there is a new Ambulance centre being built at Parafield and I understand the toilets had to be closed for a few days to allow plumbing works to proceed.
After all airports are no longer for aircraft are they?

[Squawk7700]

They are going to need to submit a notam soon to tell pilots to bring a second credit card and or their firstborn when the price of avgas goes up shortly.

Last night in Melbourne I saw Caltex Vortex premium unleaded for 179.9 !!!

[Traffic_Is_Er_Was]

That is why the ambulance centre at Parafield is being built.