Wondering what everyone is paying for 100LL
That's your own fault really, in today's market spirit: either you have not consumed enough, or you have made it too easy to carry in the stuff from elsewhere. Couldn't Alaska have a solid tax on import of end-user fuels?
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Re landing fees in UK. A lot of airfields band together and have reciprocal agreements so no landing fees if you're a member of one airfield and fly to another on your reciprocal list. Just had a quick look at one of my local clubs and they have 27 airfields on the list spread around the country.
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Jan O - Population of Alaska is around 750,000 and of that 300,000 live in Anchorage, AK. So yah we just don't consume that much and moving the fuel around by trucks and barges is expensive. That's the price we pay for living were we do.
thing- that sounds like a good deal......
thing- that sounds like a good deal......
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Around US$8 to 8.50 per USG here in Barbados from the monopoly supplier for 100LL - I think a very fair price, only shame is that to go anywhere takes up so much of the stuff.
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It looks like the current fuel price situation is starting to reap benefits for flying. Fuel prices ay Cranfield have been substantially reduced. A litre of 100LL is reputed to be £1.56 inclusive. Great news; let's hope it's to stay low for a while.
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Since my first reply, saying the price of 100LL in Shropshire had dropped from 1.76 to 1.68, it has further dropped now to £1.50 / ltr.
Boilerjuice.com says that heating oil is similarly lower in price, just 40.25p / ltr (from 65p several months ago.)
Boilerjuice.com says that heating oil is similarly lower in price, just 40.25p / ltr (from 65p several months ago.)
Latest prices for Nottingham (Tollerton) EGBN:-
Avgas £1.22 plus vat = £1.47 pence/litre (free landing if uplift 50 litres or more)
Avtur £0.54 plus vat = £0.65 pence/litre (free landing if uplift 200 L or more)
Avgas £1.22 plus vat = £1.47 pence/litre (free landing if uplift 50 litres or more)
Avtur £0.54 plus vat = £0.65 pence/litre (free landing if uplift 200 L or more)
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Line Service
US$4.50 a US Gallon, self service, here in Tucson, Arizona.
Question, in the UK and other countries, do you self service your aircraft, or is fuel pumped from a truck by a line boy? If there is a line boy, do you allow him to add engine oil and clean the windshield?
Question, in the UK and other countries, do you self service your aircraft, or is fuel pumped from a truck by a line boy? If there is a line boy, do you allow him to add engine oil and clean the windshield?
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Question, in the UK and other countries, do you self service your aircraft, or is fuel pumped from a truck by a line boy?
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You've got to be wary of those self service machines. I'll explain what has happened to me at 3 separate airfields. The first occasion it was recommended that visitors entered the £250 limit on the pump, this I did and continued to dispense fuel.
Can't remember the amount I took, about £150 worth of fuel. Some days later I checked my online account which is solely for my flying, and is funded every month. The actual fuel amount was debited, there also being a difference of £250 between the a/c balance and available balance, the result being I'd inadvertently and unknowingly overdrawn.
Exactly 1 week later the 250 was added back to my available balance but not before I'd incurred a charge for being overdrawn, which after some wrangling was refunded. This has happened since, but I always enter the lowest amount, usually £50 which invariably goes missing for 7 days!!
Has this happened to anyone else?
Can't remember the amount I took, about £150 worth of fuel. Some days later I checked my online account which is solely for my flying, and is funded every month. The actual fuel amount was debited, there also being a difference of £250 between the a/c balance and available balance, the result being I'd inadvertently and unknowingly overdrawn.
Exactly 1 week later the 250 was added back to my available balance but not before I'd incurred a charge for being overdrawn, which after some wrangling was refunded. This has happened since, but I always enter the lowest amount, usually £50 which invariably goes missing for 7 days!!
Has this happened to anyone else?
