Friday, May 07, 2010 at 13:08
Hi Howard
I hadn't heard anything so have planned to go without needing petrol from fuel dump but I think we should carefully
check distances etc and finaly decide.
This might interest Phil as
well even though he is on diesel.
Based on exploroz trip notes and plot I have plotted my own and am in the middle of working thru things and it appears the biggest distance is significantly less than I thought.
My plot is in the form of a gpx file which can be loaded into Ozi or Garmin etc.
Even though I have not fully checked them I will give some idea here to see if others might agree.
Total distance
Wiluna to Biluna (going to all wells ) is 1689km (thought 1830 as you did)
Longest no-fuel section is only 1012km (
Wiluna to
well 33 community) not 1150
Using 21lt/100km average but calculations based on 25lt , we should only need 250lt of fuel maximum and probably use 210lt.
Adding 200km margin for total of 1200km at max consumption of 25lt still only brings total up to 300lt which could be done without expense of fuel dump.
What do you think ?
If you tell me where you will be stopping I could knock off some of your fuel and guarantee I have no problems -
well unless you catch me !
P.S. I have a detailed
well by
well plan with each section and I note where the discrencies lay.
E.G. Expoloroz notes quote durba springs to
well 18 as 80km , but thats because they go via
Diebil hills , without this detour its only 36km i.e. 44km less
Was planning seperate post about this -but if your planning to order soon then need to sort out.
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