What's the price of AVGAS in NZ?

[ZK-Brock]

Hi guys, what's the going price of Avgas at your local airport? I'll check at Nelson when I fly on monday.


Brock

[chopper_nut]

I think its about $2.60 per litre or something along those lines

[Dreamweaver]

Why do you want to know?

[ZK-Brock]

Curiosity?? In actual fact James asked me on MSN so I decided to find out.

[Codge]

Ohh that is expensive! It used to be about the same as car gas. That would have been back in the 'good old days' when there was lead in the fuel. They didn't play around with the brew the same way they did with the motorist. Too many risks involved like aromatics and such.
Back when I was a hoon and didn't have kids and a mortgage I and some of my friends would plane the heads on our V8's quite a bit to get the compression ratio to 13:1 or above and then run them on Avgas. Trouble was we would end up with race cars instead of street cars! I had an inlet manifold that didn't flow right untill about 4500 RPM and the cam profile was that under that RPM I'd be spitting raw fuel straight out the exhaust pipe! So at $2.60 a litre that would be a very hungry engine! I did find a solution back then and it was to take up flying lessons!

[ronindanbo]

Mini Cooper on Avgas = prebuilt coffin that was me and my friends.

[G-HEVN]

Here it's £1.36 (=$3.88 approx)

Be happy paying your cheap $2.60 prices!!

[ardypilot]

Not sure about the price, but up at Ardmore, the local boyracers like to syphen the avgas out the warbirds to use it as high octane petrol in their cars...