X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:14:32 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from [66.64.141.200] (HELO lucky.dts.local) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.2) with ESMTP id 2877425 for lml@lancaironline.net; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:37:37 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=66.64.141.200; envelope-from=cjensen@dts9000.com X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C8AA38.8B1AF7B0" Subject: RE: [LML] Beware the first flight fuelling step X-Original-Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:35:20 -0400 X-Original-Message-ID: <8984A39879F2F5418251CBEEC9C689B3AFCCD2@lucky.dts.local> In-Reply-To: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: [LML] Beware the first flight fuelling step Thread-Index: AciqMF7cVCHKudA6Sw+NvhNycn/G/gACDPrA From: "Chuck Jensen" X-Original-To: "Lancair Mailing List" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C8AA38.8B1AF7B0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Yikes, that's still $8.31/gallon ($96,000 / 210 / 55). I thought our = petro was a mile high..which of course it is after three or four minutes = of hard climbing. =20 Chuck Jensen=20 -----Original Message----- From: Lancair Mailing List [mailto:lml@lancaironline.net]On Behalf Of = Fred Moreno Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 3:38 PM To: lml@lancaironline.net Subject: [LML] Beware the first flight fuelling step I built my Lancair at Denmark Airport (Western Australia) which has no = fuel. So I borrowed a drum, and filled it with 210 litres of Avgas at = the Albany airport using my SAAA (Sport Aircraft Association of = Australia) fuel card which is billed to BP. =20 =20 I trucked the fuel to my hangar and calibrated my fuel gages in = preparation for first flight. =20 =20 First and subsequent test flights have gone well. =20 =20 Yesterday I got a call from SAAA. They had just received the invoice = from BP. It seems that they had billed me for 210 drums of Avgas which = probably exceeded my credit limit by a bit. The message was to call = back ASAP. =20 =20 I can see why. =20 Total cost for fuel and drums: $96,000. =20 =20 =20 Be careful out there. :-) =20 Fred=20 ------_=_NextPart_001_01C8AA38.8B1AF7B0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Yikes,=20 that's still $8.31/gallon ($96,000 / 210 / 55).  I thought our = petro was a=20 mile high..which of course it is after three or four minutes of hard=20 climbing.
 
Chuck = Jensen=20
-----Original Message-----
From: Lancair Mailing = List=20 [mailto:lml@lancaironline.net]On Behalf Of Fred = Moreno
Sent:=20 Tuesday, April 29, 2008 3:38 PM
To:=20 lml@lancaironline.net
Subject: [LML] Beware the first flight = fuelling step

I built my Lancair at=20 Denmark Airport (Western Australia) which has no = fuel.  So I=20 borrowed a drum, and filled it with 210 litres of Avgas at the=20 Albany airport using my SAAA (Sport Aircraft = Association=20 of Australia) fuel card which is billed to BP.  =

 

I trucked the fuel to my = hangar=20 and calibrated my fuel gages in preparation for first flight.=20  

 

First and subsequent = test flights=20 have gone well. 

 

Yesterday I got a call = from=20 SAAA.  They had just received the invoice from BP.  It seems = that=20 they had billed me for 210 drums of Avgas which probably exceeded my = credit=20 limit by a bit.  The message was to call back ASAP. =20

 

I can see = why.

 

Total cost for fuel and = drums:=20 $96,000. 

 

 

Be careful out = there. =20 J

 

Fred=20

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