Why is MoGas so expensive, it's just normal UL91 petrol, yet at most airfields it's over £1 a ltr more expensive than what you would pay at a garage. Can be very limiting for places to go for Microlights that run on MoGas.
I'm really enjoying 'riding along' with you to the various airports and adventures in the UK. I had no idea that the GA community was so vibrant ... and I love your year-round (No snow drifts and 40 below!) weather. Thanks again.
Earls Colne is friendly and helpful. A very long time ago my 10 or 11 year old had a birthday present of a flight there. That was because a girl in one of my classes had said she had had that and loved it. Move on and my times of flying in were when it was grass runway only. Maybe shows my age. Over the last few years they have been brilliant with helping with my air cadets. Each summer I take them to the airfield where we learn to do a walk round as well as get in and out of an aircraft, have a chance to look at all the other aircraft, especially the Harvard, and have a go on the excellent flight sim. In the days of cutbacks on flying for the cadets this has been a brilliant experience for them. Some of the cadets have learnt more by being hangar rats along with some flight experience. Thank you Earls Colne.
Last time I gassed up my Musketeer I paid $CDN2.61 a litre, call it £1.43. Since then the refinery that makes avgas has had issues and very little avgas is available in western Canada at any price.
Holy cow! Hate to say it but that is $9 per US Gallon is a Class B airport price. Self serve 100LL in the US at a GA airfield is typically (low end) $4.60-$5.00 per gallon….so £0.94 per liter.
I did my first solo landaway at Earls Colne so lots of good memories associated with it. I do however also remember once being chastised as a student pilot for not making a radio call when crossing the ATZ boundary. Something I’d never been expected to do before and indeed have never been asked to do since!
I was there in May to do a Stearman flight.. it was amazing! What a lovely, friendly little airfield. The little snack van is a winner too! After I had done my flight, I was struggling to get a cab back to the station, the guy that runs the place actually ran me back in his pick up truck! Talk about going above and beyond! 😁 By the way, when are you going to publish the video featuring Amanda Harrison?
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Why is MoGas so expensive, it's just normal UL91 petrol, yet at most airfields it's over £1 a ltr more expensive than what you would pay at a garage. Can be very limiting for places to go for Microlights that run on MoGas.
I'm really enjoying 'riding along' with you to the various airports and adventures in the UK. I had no idea that the GA community was so vibrant ... and I love your year-round (No snow drifts and 40 below!) weather. Thanks again.
as a stapleford instructor often bringing students to earls colne its nice to see it on here
This was awesome, love to see more "behind the scenes" like this where possible.
Earls Colne is friendly and helpful. A very long time ago my 10 or 11 year old had a birthday present of a flight there. That was because a girl in one of my classes had said she had had that and loved it. Move on and my times of flying in were when it was grass runway only. Maybe shows my age. Over the last few years they have been brilliant with helping with my air cadets. Each summer I take them to the airfield where we learn to do a walk round as well as get in and out of an aircraft, have a chance to look at all the other aircraft, especially the Harvard, and have a go on the excellent flight sim. In the days of cutbacks on flying for the cadets this has been a brilliant experience for them. Some of the cadets have learnt more by being hangar rats along with some flight experience. Thank you Earls Colne.
5:45 as an American I finally know how "ellscone" is actually spelled.
as an American I always admire the food options.
Last time I gassed up my Musketeer I paid $CDN2.61 a litre, call it £1.43. Since then the refinery that makes avgas has had issues and very little avgas is available in western Canada at any price.
Very useful info for a visiting pilot, Jon. Thank you for another excellent review 👌🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Holy cow! Hate to say it but that is $9 per US Gallon is a Class B airport price. Self serve 100LL in the US at a GA airfield is typically (low end) $4.60-$5.00 per gallon….so £0.94 per liter.
And still whenever I'm in America you guys whine about the price of fuel! You've got it very cheap still.
That £1.86 is about £1.19 plus £0.36 in excise duty and £0.31 in VAT. I'm guessing there is much less tax on the US fuel?
@@thomasdalton1508 just regular sales tax…..
@@5128goldenrod Which is, of course, part of the reason the US has more than three times the greenhouse gas emissions per capita as the UK...
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I did my first solo landaway at Earls Colne so lots of good memories associated with it.
I do however also remember once being chastised as a student pilot for not making a radio call when crossing the ATZ boundary. Something I’d never been expected to do before and indeed have never been asked to do since!
It is one the ‘rules of the air’. It was never much enforced but there’s been more focus on it over the last 5 years.
@@TheFlyingReporter Yes, I suppose it just depends on the aerodrome.
Thanks, keep up the good work!
Thank you so much.
I was just there on Monday :D
Got a cheese and bacon burger from Norm and Debs. Fueled up the plane to of course :D
Hi Jon, my local earls colne, good to see its doing well, and good to see Norm is still alive and cooking.
Were you flying near the Lee-on-Solent area on the 5th of august? Heard G-BMIV over the comms during my trial lesson
Thanks
Thank you Chris.
There is no such thing as cheap avgas.
Lovely crisp aerial footage. What camera are you using, Jon?
I was there in May to do a Stearman flight.. it was amazing! What a lovely, friendly little airfield. The little snack van is a winner too! After I had done my flight, I was struggling to get a cab back to the station, the guy that runs the place actually ran me back in his pick up truck! Talk about going above and beyond! 😁 By the way, when are you going to publish the video featuring Amanda Harrison?
Lovely guide!
What you didn’t mention, is that on Saturday mornings the hotel/golf club do a really good Brunch. I have been there a couple of times .
Dammit! I only fly a turbine helicopter from there, so no saving on avgas. And the helicopter approaches, not easy.
Strange. In previous airfield reports you have deliberately not mentioned costs as they are a perishable quantity.
not for long now that you’ve told everyone.. he he.. wow! Walkers crisps.. ex international UK students really miss those!
I have a question. is there ant products for aircraft like for cars not that makes water/rain just run off immediately?
There is build in into aircraft, it is called propeller, it works good with high rpm. Unless you meant something else?
Yes RainX
EC has been on my "to visit" list for a while, I might make it before the year end.
Venezuela is 4p a liter.
Noooo! But it'll cost an arm & a leg to get there from the UK ;)
Is that Dave Trouse in the red with the sunglasses on? I used to work for him about 20 years ago 😂
Very nice thank you
No flex wing microlights allowed. Not that friendly then
Sorry……planning restrictions don’t permit it for some bizarre reason
@@kevinbarber6022there is a method to challenge those restrictions, that the BMAA support but it requires a will by the airfield management
Do you know what's cheaper than AVGAS, MOGAS my friend. Fly Rotax, I love my £1.5/L and a fuel burn of 15L/hr
top quality avgas at rock bottom prices! best airfield in england! ok, so I'm biased.
Best I could do without a PPL was to buy Earls Colne for Microsoft Flight Simulator. Not the same though. 😂
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That is a narrow runway.
Looks like a very nice field to visit!