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The simple answer to the OP's question is to develop plenty of aviation/forum mates in many areas, that are mostly happy to assist you with fuel supplies, and transport/resupply of same.

I'd be quite happy to assist anyone requiring fuel in a spot where it wasn't available at the airstrip, in any area where I was currently located, and I'm sure many of the forum members would do the same.

The standard format - glitzy, mind-numbing website, that promises you the world - but never even delivers 5% of what they promise. That's if they stay in business for any longer than 5 years, before disappearing into obscurity.

The problem with these companies is they promise you they can deliver on things over which they have zero control - such as local laws and regulations and aviation controls.

Re the pricing of OEM aviation parts and components - you won't find anything cheap at Supercheap, or Bunnings Aerospace, or any of the tool companies, or big parts suppliers any more, either - ever since they set out on the path a couple of years ago, to ramping up prices to meet the 25%-30% ROI corporate expectations for profit levels.

The difference in prices from the original source country (you know, that big Asian supplier to the North of us), and the prices the local rorters ask for these products, is simply breathtaking in the level of markup.

Area-51's nailed it. Importation of mechanical items is a licence for Gubbmint, Border Force, the Dept of Agriculture, and a host of other hangers-on, to bugger you senseless, a-la Lord Flashheart in Blackadder.

Note, there is no longer any "Customs & Quarantine" Dept, either - importation controls are handled by such a multude of Gubbmint dark forces, they make a trip to Centrelink to lodge a form seem like a picnic in the park. 

Then there's the Port hangers-on! My God, the charges and fees and services they can think up, would bring tears of joy to a Russian Border Guard who thrives on bribery.

There's security charges, recording fees, container storage fees, container opening fees, brokers fees, transport fees, warehousing fees - oh, and GST on top of everything ..... it's like the scenes from a crashed, and split-open money truck!

I'm still smarting in the rear end from several machinery importation exercises, and it's been a number of years since I tried it, and I have no desire to ever experience the process again.

Nev is on the money, listen to him, that's decades of experience talking. Hydrogen embrittlement IS a serious problem if the chrome plater is unaware of the stresses involved in the end use of the product - and it affects high grade steels more than low grade steels. As all aircraft use high grades of steel, it's important to get professional aviation advice on any chrome plating planned for aircraft components. CASA didn't produce the article about the problem just to fill empty pages.

.......bureaucratic gobbledegook that all Canberrans speak, then we might be able to understand the points you're trying to make! As it is, we can only..........

The appointment of a "financial analyst", formerly a senior executive at McDonnell Douglas, for Boeings new CEO, is going to be the final nail in the coffin of Boeing.

What hope have they got of bringing back some decent build quality, when the new CEO is a total "dollar watcher" without a shred of engineering skills, manufacturing skills, or any skills associated with company morale repair?

Meet Stephanie Pope, The Woman Trying To Clean Up Boeing’s 737 MAX Mess

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Observers are skeptical the finance specialist has the skills to fix the troubled airliner division. Former co-workers tell Forbes why Boeing is putting its faith in her.

Well, I wonder what Plan B is? - seeing as Plan A ended in disaster?

Well done to the blokes driving, they made a successful wheels up landing in the dark, and didn't blow up the airport, which is what the media rabble were hoping to see.

Bit of a shame they didn't hit the actual factory instead of the workers accommodation. I'd really like to see a Russian ammo or drone factory in flames.

A 6 seater Beech 58 Baron of Gold Coast Air. Just the two pilots on board.

https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/fiery-emergency-landing-on-the-gold-coast-got-into-a-lot-of-trouble/news-story/108b3e88d4386c454749ff726ad690bb

If Amazon had delivered it, it would've been thrown over the fence, and you'd be looking at a wrecked kit.

You can get up to 8M tide variations in Darwin, but the mean neap tidal range is 1.9M, and spring tides have a range variation of up to 5.5M. Casuarina Beach is very flat, and I'd be surprised if the aircraft didn't get some level of "wet feet".

.........a whole 2 cans of "Start Ya Bastard" before one got to see it light up. However on this particular day, Captain went through 3 whole cans of SYB, and it still wouldn't start. It was only then he realised that........

You're supposed to have trashed all that "old technology by now. The problem is, a lot of stuff that isn't voice communication still relies on 3G.

State Water Supply Depts rely on 3G networks to keep track of water levels in reservoirs and tanks are a typical example. It's going to create a lot of additional costs for a lot of people and Govt Depts.

3G network shutdown Australia: When is Australia's 3G network shutting down, why it's happening, what you need to do | Explained

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It's been a feature of Australian phone coverage for decades, but within nine months all of Australia's 3G ...

The title is - "Wrong kind of landing strip: Plane ’crash’ at Top End nudist beach". I've disabled Javascript and the paywall is still there. However, the photo shows Arafura Airlines VH-KER stuck in some soft tidal flat ground.

The aircraft is a Piper PA-32-300 Cherokee Six. Arafura Airlines VH-KER. Just might have been the old Piper faulty fuel selector trick again?

I've been to Casuarina Beach (close on 20 yrs ago), it was pretty poorly populated by way of beachgoers, and the gays have taken over most nudist beaches anyway, so nothing of interest much to hetero people.

I'm surprised they managed a satisfactory landing, the tidal flat is pretty soft clayey sand, and any incoming tide would be a worry, as Darwins tides are pretty big.

I always understood the two-speed rear axle for the Ford cars and trucks was a Ruckstell. I believe there were Rocky Mountain brakes available for the Model T, but I've never heard of a Rocky Mountain 2-speed rear axle.

.....sheer terror, as most glider pilots never never admit to wearing brown corduroy trousers every trip, such is the level of fear in gliding. To add to the flying fear, is the landing spot fear. Many a glider pilot came down in.........

Skippy, click on the envelope symbol on the LHS menu.

.....anything larger than a control-line model aircraft. It was during one of these GOM (Grump Old Men) grumble sessions, that Capt Cook, who was listening in as an invitee, suggested they all go........

Four upcoming airshow dates have now been posted in the Events calendar -

Warbirds over Scone 23/24th March 2024

Nhill Airshow, 13th April 2024

West Sale ANZAC Weekend Airshow, 27/28th April 2024

Central Coast Airshow at Warnervale, 25/26th May 2024.

It seems a lot of forum users are unaware of the EVENTS calendar. I've posted local air events on there when I knew they were forthcoming, but we run very light on events on the Left Coast, it seems all the air events are on the East Coast.

Also, as COVID killed off a lot of public events, it seems that forum users just forgot about the events calendar, as very little was happening throughout the pandemic period.

On the LEFT HAND SIDE MENU, there is an EVENTS Calendar - and ANYONE can ADD any forthcoming EVENT to it, that may be of interest to forum readers.

Maybe Ian needs to make the EVENTS part of the LHS menu, more prominent on the website? In flashing text, perhaps?? 

That's some aim!!