Fuel Prices For The July Pilgrimage

100LL.com has consistently beat Airnav.com on price accuracy and
timely updates for all of the long cross country trips I've taken
during the past 2 years. It's saved me more than $1000 over what
Airnav found for lowest priced fuel near my destinations.


Currently mo-gas at our local pumps is at $3.39. Normally our 100LL
prices will follow mogas but $1 higher. Current 100LL prices have not
followed mogas as high, and current mogas contracts show a down trend
for coming months. I can contract July mogas for $0.05 less than
today's price and August mogas for $0.10 less than today's price. I
would expect that OSH period avgas prices to be pretty close to
current prices.

The problem, Jim, is that I'm trying my best to wend my way across country
taking as little 100LL as possible because of the fouling issue. As a
matter of fact, I plan on landing at Portage between IOW and PCZ just to get
a good load of mogas for the flight home. Thence Blaine and Aberdeen
before I have to start taking on bluegas.

Jim



"Jim Burns" wrote in message
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100LL.com has consistently beat Airnav.com on price accuracy and
timely updates for all of the long cross country trips I've taken
during the past 2 years. It's saved me more than $1000 over what
Airnav found for lowest priced fuel near my destinations.

On Tue, 22 May 2007 15:35:26 -0700, "RST Engineering"
wrote:

The problem, Jim, is that I'm trying my best to wend my way across country
taking as little 100LL as possible because of the fouling issue. As a
matter of fact, I plan on landing at Portage between IOW and PCZ just to get
a good load of mogas for the flight home. Thence Blaine and Aberdeen
before I have to start taking on bluegas.

Jim


have you experimented with your plugs?

on the o-200 the usual REM40-E plugs foul up dreadfully on 100/130
avgas but switching to REM38-E plugs gets rid of almost all of the
problem. I run 100/130 avgas with no problems at all.

Stealth Pilot

("RST Engineering" wrote)
The problem, Jim, is that I'm trying my best to wend my way across country
taking as little 100LL as possible because of the fouling issue. As a
matter of fact, I plan on landing at Portage between IOW and PCZ just to
get a good load of mogas for the flight home. Thence Blaine and Aberdeen
before I have to start taking on bluegas.


Blaine?

When you know your tentative (Depart: OSH) schedule, let me know. You can
hunker down at Blaine (if need be) or soldier on. A place to bunk (with
shower and flushing toilet g) ...and a car will be available - should you
want it, or need it.

We (@ ANE) will take care of Gail ....and you.

That said, I'll be returning from OSH early Saturday evening (8pm-ish), so I
won't be around when you stop by our 'little' airport.

Your OSH event chairs:
Taking them back with you?
Leaving them behind when your week is up?

Your call. I'm open either way. If they're heading West, don't forget to
leave room.


Montblack
http://www.airnav.com/airport/KANE

"Montblack" wrote in message
...


When you know your tentative (Depart: OSH) schedule, let me know. You can
hunker down at Blaine (if need be) or soldier on.

Like the diapers say, Depends. If we get an early morning VFR departure,
I'd like to be in western Nebraska for the evening. If we get the usual
crappy Wisconsin IFR mornings, I'll take you up on that.

A place to bunk (with
shower and flushing toilet g) ...and a car will be available - should
you
want it, or need it.

Flushing toilets? FLUSHING TOILETS??? We don't even have those up here in
the wilds of Grass Valley {;-)


We (@ ANE) will take care of Gail ....and you.

Bless you.


That said, I'll be returning from OSH early Saturday evening (8pm-ish), so
I
won't be around when you stop by our 'little' airport.

Your OSH event chairs:
Taking them back with you?
Leaving them behind when your week is up?


Keep 'em. They are the "Oshkosh Chairs" from now on.

Jim

In article . com,
Jim Burns wrote:

100LL.com has consistently beat Airnav.com on price accuracy and
timely updates for all of the long cross country trips I've taken
during the past 2 years. It's saved me more than $1000 over what
Airnav found for lowest priced fuel near my destinations.

Interesting. While Airnav is often incorrect (old data), 100ll.com is
more often incorrect in my experience. Certainly, 100ll.com appears to
be consistently less accurate just in my local/regional area.

In any case, I've concluded that the best method is to find the airports
with low price trends, and then call them to get an update on prices and
availability. During the post-Katrina run-up, the cheaper fields
quickly sold out and, because they didn't raise prices with the market,
couldn't afford to refill the tanks until prices came back down again.
It would be a shame to land somewhere with legal reserves, only to find
out that their tanks are dry.



JKG